Section 3
Pending enquiry, sale &c., to be postponed.
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.
Pending an enquiry into any claim or objection
under the last preceding Section, the Collector or other Officer as aforesaid shall postpone the sale or
other disposition of the land ;
and, if he shall order that such claim or objection be rejected, he shall further postpone the sale or other disposition of the land, to allow the claimant or objector to contest the order of rejection in the manner hereinafter provided.
and, if he shall order that such claim or objection be rejected, he shall further postpone the sale or other disposition of the land, to allow the claimant or objector to contest the order of rejection in the manner hereinafter provided.