Section 10Part 2 — Acquisition
Power to require statement as to persons interested
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10. (1) The magistrate may require the owner or occupier of, or any person known or believed to be interested in, any land which the Governor has entered upon or which is to be acquired compulsorily under this Law to make or deliver to him at a time and place mentioned (such time not being earlier than fifteen days after the date of the requisition) a statement in writing containing, so far as may be practicable, the name of every other person possessing any interest in the land or in any part thereof as co-proprietor, sub-proprietor, mortgagee, tenant or otherwise, the nature of such interest and the rents and profits, if any, received or receivable on account thereof for three years next preceding the date of the statement.
Whoever being required under this section or section 9 to make or deliver a statement, without reasonable excuse refuses or neglects so to do, or who Land Acquisition Law (1995 Revision) Section 11 c Revised as at 8th day of August, 1995 Page 9 wilfully makes a false statement, is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for three months.