(a) appoint a manager for the property of the evacuee or for carrying on any business or under taking of the evacuee and authorise the manager to exercise any of the powers of the Custodian under this section;
(b) enter, or authorise any other person to enter any land or premises to inspect any evacuee property;
(c) take all such measures as may be necessary to keep any evacuee property in good repair;
(d) complete any building which has vested in him and which requires to be completed;
(e) require any person, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law for the time being in force relating to the disclosure of any information by a public servant or any other person, to furnish such returns, accounts or other information in relation to any property and to produce such documents in his possession as the Custodian considers necessary for the discharge of his duties under this Act;
(f) require any banking company to furnish such information as the Custodian may require with respect to remittances made after the relevant date to any such area outside India as may be specified by the Custodian, either generally, or with reference to any person or class of persons;
(g) take such action as may be necessary for the recovery of any debt due to the evacuee;
(h) institute, defend or continue any legal proceeding in any civil or revenue court on behalf of the evacuee or refer any dispute between the evacuee and any other person to arbitration or compromise any claims, debts or liabilities on behalf of the evacuee;
(i) incur any expenditure, including expenditure on the payment of taxes, duties, cesses and rates to Government or to any local authority or of any amounts due to any employee of the evacuee or of any debt due by the evacuee to any person;
(j) pay to the evacuee, or to any member of his family or to such other person as in the opinion of the Custodian is entitled thereto, any sum of money out of the funds in his possession;
(k) transfer in any manner whatsoever any evacuee property notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any law or agreement relating thereto:
(l) acquire any non-evacuee interest in evacuee property, whether by way of purchase or otherwise:-
[(ll) dispose of the claim of co-sharer or partner in any property by purchase of non-evacuee share or by sale of evacuee share, either to the co-sharer or to any other person, or by selling the entire property and distributing the sale proceeds to the claimant according to his share, or by partitioning the property, or take all such measures as he may consider necessary for the purpose of separating the interests of the evacuee from those of the claimants:
(m) delegate, by general or special order, all or any of his functions under this Act to such officers or persons as may be prescribed.
[(n) invest any money held by him in such securities as may be prescribed:]
Section 8 • The Goa, Daman and Diu Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1964
8. Powers and duties of the Custodian generally.
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Section 8
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