Section 126

For the purposes of this section, “public authority” means the Government, the Collector of Land Revenue, the Housing and Development Board, and any other person, corporation or body, authorised or empowered by any written law to acquire land compulsorily.

Where registered land has been acquired by any public authority otherwise than by purchase or agreement, an instrument of acquisition in the prescribed form, executed by that authority or by some proper officer appointed by the authority in that behalf, may be lodged with the Registrar.

The Registrar shall not be concerned to inquire into the regularity or validity of the acquisition, but upon registration thereof the estate or interest acquired shall vest in the public authority according to the tenor of the instrument of acquisition.

On registration of an instrument of acquisition, the Registrar shall cancel the registration of any mortgage, charge or lease thereby overreached and shall, if so requested, cancel the folio of the land-register (and the duplicate folio thereof if produced for that purpose) and shall create a new folio for the estate or interest thereby acquired.

Whenever a public authority that has become proprietor of registered land so requests, the Registrar shall endorse on the relevant folio of the land-register a notification to the effect that the land has become vested in the Government as State land, and has ceased to be subject to the provisions of this Act.[122