Unauthorized occupier may be forcibly dispossessed
194 Unauthorized occupier may be forcibly dispossessed
No. 3709 s. 157.
S. 194 amended by Nos 7228 s. 7(Sch. 4 Pt 19(la)), 7876 s. 2(3), 16/1986 s. 30, 57/1989 s. 3(Sch. item 109.4(a)(b)).
When any person—
occupies any land which was held under any licence or lease which has expired, or has become forfeited or forfeited and void or has been revoked under this Part;
occupies any land and purports so to do in virtue or under colour of any expired forfeited void or revoked licence or lease; or
remains otherwise in unauthorized possession or occupation of land formerly held under any licence or lease—
and refuses or neglects to deliver up possession of the same to any person authorized by the Minister in that behalf, such person or any other person authorized by the Minister may apply upon an information to be laid by him in the form set out in the Sixth Schedule to any magistrate for and such magistrate shall issue a summons in the form set forth in the Seventh Schedule calling upon the occupier of such land to appear at a time and place to be therein specified before the Magistrates' Court which may hear and determine the matter of such information in a summary way ex parte or otherwise.
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