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CHAPTER–V MISCELLANEOUS

Section 46: Penalty for destruction, injury or removal of survey [or boundary]1 marks

The Uttar Pradesh Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1953

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act No. 3 of 2002.

Sections 1 to 3 carry marginal headings and the later sections carry headings printed at the start of the section; both are shown as the section headings. Sections 4-A, 11-C and the omitted sections carry no heading in this copy.

Marginal references to other enactments (for example "U. P. Act No. I of 1951") printed beside the text are not reproduced.

(1) If any person destroys willfully or injures or removes without lawful authority a survey [or boundary]2 mark lawfully erected, he may be ordered by a Consolidation Officer to pay such compensation not exceeding [one thousand rupees]2 for each mark so destroyed, injured or removed, as may in the opinion of that officer be necessary to defray the expenses of restoring the same and of rewarding the person, if any, who gave information of the destruction, injury or removal.

(2) The order for the payment of compensation under sub-section (1) shall not bar a prosecution under section 434 of the Indian Penal Code.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Ins. by sec. 13 of U. P. Act no. 30 of 1991.
  2. 2.Ins. by sec. 13 (b) of U. P. Act no. 30 of 1991 (for words fifty rupees).

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