Section 36:
Acquisition of requisitioned property.
(1) Any immovable property which has been
requisitioned under section 29 may, in the manner hereinafter provided, be acquired in the circumstances
and by the Government specified below, namely:—
(a) where any works have, during the period of requisition, been constructed on, in or over the
property wholly or partly at the expense of any Government, the property may be acquired by that
Government if it decides that the value of or the right to use, such works shall, by means of the
acquisition of the property, be preserved or secured for the purposes of any Government, or
(b) where the cost to any Government of restoring the property to its condition at the time of its
requisition as aforesaid would, in the determination of that Government, be excessive having regard
to the value of the property at that time, the property may be acquired by that Government.
(2) When any Government as aforesaid decides to acquire any immovable property, it shall serve on
the owner thereof or where the owner is not readily traceable or the ownership is in dispute, by publishing
in the Official Gazette, a notice stating that the Government has decided to acquire it in pursuance of this
section.
(3) Where a notice of acquisition is served on the owner of the property or is published in the Official
Gazette under sub-section (2), then, at the beginning of the day on which the notice is so served or
published, the property shall vest in the Government free from any mortgage, pledge, lien or other similar
encumbrances and the period of requisition thereof shall come to an end.
(4) Any decision or determination of a Government under sub-section (1) shall be final, and shall not
be called in question in any court.
(5) For the purposes of this section, "works" includes every description of buildings, structures and
improvements of the property.