Section 3:
Appointment of estate officers.
The Central Government may, by notification in the Official
Gazette,-
(a) appoint such persons, being gazetted officers of Government 1[or of the Government of any Union
Territory] or officers of equivalent rank of the 2[statutory authority], as it thinks fit, to be estate officers for
the purposes of this Act; 3***
4[Provided that no officer of the Secretariat of the Rajya Sabha shall be so appointed except after
consultation with the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha and no officer of the Secretariat of the Lok Sabha shall
be so appointed except after consultation with the Speaker of the Lok Sabha:
Provided further that an officer of a statutory authority shall only be appointed as an estate officer in
respect of the public premises controlled by that authority; 5***]
6[Provided also that the Custodian, Deputy Custodian and Assistant Custodian of the enemy property
appointed under section 3 of the Enemy Property Act, 1968 (34 of 1968), shall be deemed to have been
appointed as the Estate Officer in respect of those enemy property, being the public premises, referred to in
sub-clause (4) of clause (e) of section 2 of this Act for which they had been appointed as the Custodian,
Deputy Custodian and Assistant Custodian under section 3 of the Enemy Property Act, 1968.]
(b) define the local limits within which, or the categories of public premises in respect of which, the
estate officers shall exercise the powers conferred, and perform the duties imposed, on estate officers by or
under this Act.
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 7 of 1994, s. 3 (1-6-1994).
2. Subs. by Act 61 of 1980, s. 2, for “corporate authority” (w.e.f. 20-12-1980).
3. The word “and” omitted by s. 3,ibid. (w.e.f. 20-12-1980).
4. Provisos added by s. 3, ibid. (w.e.f. 20-12-1980).
5. The word “and” omitted by Act 3 of 2017, s. 20 (w.e.f. 7-1-2016).
6. Ins. by s. 20,ibid. (w.e.f. 7-1-2016).