Land Improvement Loans Act, 1883
7.Recovery of loans :-
(1) Subject to such rules
as may be made under section 10, all loans granted under this Act, all interest
(if any) chargeable thereon, and costs (if any) incurred in making the same,
shall, when they become due, be recoverable by the Collector in all or any of
the following modes, namely:---
(a)
from the borrower--as if they were arrears of loans-revenue due by him;
(b)
form his surety (if any )---as if they were arrears of land revenue due by him;
(c) out of the land for the benefit of which the loan has been granted--as if the
were arrears of land-revenue due in respect of that land;
(d)
out of the property comprised in the collateral security (If any)--according to
the procedure for the realization of land-revenue by the sale of immovable
property other than the land on which that revenue is due.
Provided
that no proceeding in respect in any
land under clause(c) shall affect (c) shall affect any interest in that land
which existed before the date of the order granting the loan other than the
interest of the borrower and of mortgagees of, or persons having charges on,
that interest, and where the loan is granted under section 4 with the contest
of another person, the interest of that person and of mortgagees of, or person
having charges on, that interest.
(2) When any sum due on
account of any such loan, interest or costs is paid to the Collector by a
surety or an owner of property comprised in any collateral security, or is
recovered under sub-section (1) by the Collector from a surety or out of any
such property, the Collector shall, on the application of the surety or the
owner of that property (as the case may be), recover that sum on his behalf
from the borrower, or out of the land for the benefit of which the loan has
been granted, in manner provided by sub-section (1).
(3) It shall be in the
discretion of a Collector acting under this section to determine the order in
which he will resort to the various modes of recovery permitted by it.