Act Number: 34

Act Name: The Enemy Property Act, 1968

Year: 1968

Enactment Date: 1968-08-20

Long Title: An Act to provide for the continued vesting of enemy property vested in the Custodian of Enemy Property for India under the Defence of India Rules, 1962 and the Defence of India Rules, 1971, and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Internal Security

Section 18: Transfer of property vested as enemy property in certain cases.
    1[18. Transfer of property vested as enemy property in certain cases.—The Central Government may, on receipt of a representation from a person, aggrieved by an order vesting a property as enemy property in the Custodian within a period of thirty days from the date of receipt of such order or from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette, whichever is earlier and after giving a reasonable opportunity of being heard, if it is of the opinion that any enemy property vested in the Custodian under this Act and remaining with him was not an enemy property, it may by general or special order, direct the Custodian that such property vested as enemy property in the Custodian may be transferred to the person from whom such property was acquired and vested in the Custodian.]
    
Notes:
1. Subs. by s.12, ibid., for section 18 (w.e.f. 7-1-2016).
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