Section 82
Power to require payment of deposit
of National Land Code (Revised - 2020)
(1)
The State Authority may if it thinks fit direct that no application for the alienation of land under this Act, or no application for the alienation thereunder of land of any class or description specified in the direction, shall be entertained unless and until there has been paid to the Land Administrator, by way of deposit, an amount estimated by him as the total amount which will become due to the State Authority by virtue of subsection 81(1) if the application is approved.
(2)
On receiving any application to which any such direction applies, the Land Administrator shall, by notice in Form 5a, require the applicant to deposit the said amount with him within the time specified in that behalf in the notice; and if the amount demanded is not so deposited within the specified time, the application shall thereupon be deemed to have been withdrawn.