Right of Government over building

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Land Acquisition (Public Purposes) Act but subject to the provisions of this section, where any land acquired under same for the purposes of this Act, consists of a dwelling house actually occupied as such, the owner or the occupier of same shall yield up possession thereof to the Government within twenty working National Cultural Heritage Preservation 43 days from the date of the second publication of the declaration in the Gazette. (2) The occupier of a dwelling house shall not be required to yield up possession thereof before the lapse of twenty days from the date when alternative accommodation, reasonably sufficient for the persons resident in that dwelling house, has been offered in writing by the Government to the said occupier. (3) On the elapsing of the time mentioned in sub-section (2), the Government may without any further formality enter upon and take possession of the land and property, or authorize any person to enter upon and take possession of same and, notwithstanding any restriction imposed on such land or property by any other law or by any instrument or otherwise, do or authorize any person to do in or upon or in relation to same, any work or other thing whatsoever which any person having an unrestricted interest in the land and property would be entitled to do by virtue of that interest saving the liability of the Government to reinstate the land or pay compensation for any damage caused if in the cases permitted under the Land Acquisition (Public Purposes) Act the acquisition is not completed.