https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172685 The Punjab Town Improvement Act, 1922 was held to use the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 only as acquisition machinery, not to freeze its provisions as at 1922. Accordingly, the amended three-year limitation in the first proviso to Section 6 applied to a declaration under Section 42, because the first publication under Section 36 was treated as having the effect of a Section 4(1) notification. On the facts stated, the Section 42 notification issued more than three years after first publication was time-barred, and the acquisition proceedings lapsed. en-us Wed, 11 Sep 1991 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:15:41 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172685 The Punjab Town Improvement Act, 1922 was held to use the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 only as acquisition machinery, not to freeze its provisions as at 1922. Accordingly, the amended three-year limitation in the first proviso to Section 6 applied to a declaration under Section 42, because the first publication under Section 36 was treated as having the effect of a Section 4(1) notification. On the facts stated, the Section 42 notification issued more than three years after first publication was time-barred, and the acquisition proceedings lapsed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 11 Sep 1991 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=172685