Section 4 — Submission of returns.

4. Submission of returns.- (1) A landowner who is liable to 

pay surcharge under this Act and whose land is situated within the 

jurisdiction of more than one Kanungo, shall within such time as may 

be prescribed, give written information of the details of the total land 

revenue payable by him to the Patwari in whose jurisdiction he holds 

land with the largest land revenue and shall also submit a copy thereof 

to the Tehsildar having jurisdiction. 

(2) The provisions of sub-section (1) of this section shall apply 

mutatis mutandis to a landowner who becomes liable to pay surcharge 

under this Act as a result of acquisition of land by purchase or 

inheritance or by bequest or by gift or by exchange or by mortgage or 

in any other manner whatsoever (under any law for the time being in 

force in the State of Himachal Pradesh) after the commencement of this 

Act and in his case, the period of return shall be thirty days from the 

date of such acquisition. 

 



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