240 DEAFT BILL AND SHOET STATEMENT 



(3) Where the land which it is proposed to register as an 

 economic holding is vested in a female subject to Hindu law, 

 and such female does not possess an absolute interest therein, 

 a reversioner shall, for the purposes of this section and of 

 sections 5, 6, 7, 9 and 12, be deemed to have an interest in 

 the land. 



Notice Before Registration. 



5. (1) Before registering any land, other than unoccupied 

 land, as an economic holding, the collector shall cause public 

 notice to be given, stating that it is proposed to register such 

 land as an economic holding.* 



(2) Such notice shall be published on or near the land and 

 at such other places and in such manner as may be prescribed, 



(3) Such notice shall contain a description of the land suf- 

 ficient to identify the same and shall contain such particulars 

 as may be prescribed, and shall require all persons interested 

 in the land to appear personally or by agent before the 

 collector at a time and place mentioned (such time not- being 

 earlier than fifteen days after the date of the publication of 

 the notice) and to state the nature of their respective interests 

 in the land and any objections which they may have to urge 

 against the registration of the land as an economic holding. 



(4) The collector shall also cause copies of such notice to 

 be served on the occupier (if any) of the land and on all such 

 persons known or believed to be interested therein or to be 

 entitled to act for persons so interested, as reside or have 

 agents authorised to receive service on their behalf in the 

 district in which the land is situated. In case any person so 

 interested lives elsewhere and has no such agent, the notice 

 may be sent to him by post to his last known address. 



Requisitions for Information. 



6. The collector may also require any such person to make 

 or deliver to him at a time and place mentioned (such time 



*Cf. I. of 1894, s. 9. 



