Section 22
Government not barred from awarding compensation for land absolutely sold, though claim be not preferred in time.
The Waste-Lands (Claims) Act, 1863
About this Act
WHEREAS it is expedient to make special provision for the speedy adjudication of claims which may be preferred to waste lands proposed to be sold, or otherwise dealt with, on account of Government, and of objections taken to the sale or other disposition of such lands ; It is enacted as follows.
Nothing in this Act shall be held to prevent 1[the State Government]
from awarding, to any claimant of waste land sold on account of Government, on proof to the satisfaction
of the State Government of the claim of such claimant (notwithstanding that he may not have preferred
his claim either to the Collector or other Officer as aforesaid, or to the proper Court constituted under this
Act, within the period prescribed by this Act), such amount as compensation for the said land, within the
limit as to amount mentioned in Section XIX of this Act, if the land have been sold not subject to any
condition or reservation, as to such State Government may seem proper.