State Act

THE UTTAR PRADESH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 1959

365- (1) Upon the sanction of an improvement scheme [under this chapter]1 the Mukhya Nagar Adhikari may enter into an agreement with any person for the purchase, leasing or exchange by the [Corporation]3 from such person of any land which the [Corporation]3 is authorized to acquire for an improvement scheme or any interest in such land (2) The [Corporation]3 may for tile purposes of an improvement scheme sanctioned [under this chapter]2 acquire land or interest in land under the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, as modified by the provisions of this Chapter. (3) The Mukhya Nagar Adhikari may for the purposes of an improvement scheme exercise any of the powers conferred upon him under sub-section (2) of section 273 and section 290. (4) All acquisition of land and interest in land for an improvement scheme authorized under this Chapter [other than a Bhavi Sarak Yojana or a Nagar Prasar Yojana]1 shall be completed at least upto the stage of making of awards within a period of five years from the date of the notification of the Scheme under section 363 and any land in respect of which the acquisition is not so completed and the owner and occupier thereof shall cease to be subject to any liabilities under this Chapter: [Provided that- (a) in relation to any improvement scheme (other than a deferred street scheme or a town expansion scheme) notified under section 42 of the United Provinces Town Improvement Act, 1919 or section 60 of the Cawnpore Urban Area Development Act, 1945, which by virtue of clause (c) of section 577 may be continued and if it had been initiated under this Act, this sub-section shall be so construed as if for the words and figures within a period of five years from the date of the notification of the scheme under section 363' the words and figures 'on or before the thirty- first day of December, 1973' were substituted; (b) in relation to any improvement scheme notified under section 363 before the commencement of the Uttar Pradesh [Municipal Corporation]3 (Amendment) Act, 1972, this sub-section shall be so construed as if for the words 'five years' the words 'ten years' were substituted. : Provided further that the State Government by general or special order made before the expiry of the said period of five years or of ten. years, or, as the case may be, the said period ending on the thirty-first day of December, 1973, may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, extend the said period by one year.]2