Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013
65.
Reference to Authority.
1.
Any
person interested who has not accepted the award may, by written application to
the Collector, require that the matter be referred by the Collector for the
determination of the Authority, as the case may be, whether his objection be to
the measurement of the land, the amount of the compensation, the person to whom
it is payable, the rights of Rehabilitation and Resettlement under Chapters V
and VI or the apportionment of the compensation among the persons interested:
Provided that the
Collector shall, within a period of thirty days from the date of receipt of
application, make a reference to the appropriate Authority:
Provided further that
where the Collector fails to make such reference within the period so
specified, the applicant may apply to the Authority, as the case may be,
requesting it to direct the Collector to make the reference to it within a
period of thirty days.
1.
2.
The
application shall state the grounds on which objection to the award is taken:
Provided that every
such application shall be made-
a. if the person making
it was present or represented before the Collector at the time when he made his
award, within six weeks from the date of the Collector’s award;
b. in other cases,
within six weeks of the receipt of the notice from the Collector under section
22, or within six months from the date of the Collector’s award, whichever
period shall first expire:
Provided further that
the Collector may entertain an application after the expiry of the said period,
within a further period of one year, if he is satisfied that there was
sufficient cause for not filing it within the period specified in the first
proviso.