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THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY
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(f) the conditions In accordance with which persons released from employment in the national service may be reinstated in their former employment;
(g) the appointment of Technical Personnel (Reinstatement) Tribunals and the matters in relation to reinstatement which such Tribunals may be required to deal with;
(h) the provisions relating to engagement, discharge or dismissal of persons by any employer in any establishment on the premises of which notices have been posted under subsection (1) of section 25;
(i) any other matter which may be prescribed or which is to be provided for by rules.

(3) Any rule made under this Chapter may provide that a contravention of the rule shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or with fine not exceeding one thousand rupees, or with both.

CHAPTER VI
REQUISITIONING AND ACQUISITION OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTY

Requisitioning of immovable property. 29. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, if in the opinion of the Central Government op the State Government it is necessary or expedient so to do for securing the defence of India, civil defence, public safety, maintenance of public order or efficient conduct of military operations, or for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community, that Government may by order in writing requisition any immovable property and may make such further orders as appear to that Government to be necessary or expedient in connection with the requisitioning:

Provided that no property or part thereof which is exclusively used by the public for religious worship shall be requisitioned.

(2) The requisition shall be effected by an order in writing addressed to the person deemed by the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, to be the owner or person in possession of the property, and such order shall be served in the prescribed manner on the person to whom it is addressed.

(3) Whenever any property is requisitioned under sub-section (1), the period of such requisition shall not extend beyond the period for which such property is required for any of the purposes mentioned in that sub-section.

Payment of compensation.

30. Whenever in pursuance of section 29 the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, requisitions any immovable property, there shall be paid to the persons interested
913 G. of I. Ex.—4.