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The Bangladesh Abandoned Property (Control, Management and Disposal) Order, 1972 (President's Order)

( PRESIDENT'S ORDER NO. 16 OF 1972 )

 
 
14. (1) Any property vested in the Government under this Order shall be exempt from all legal process, including seizure, distress, ejectment, attachment or sale by any officer of a Court or any other authority, and no injunction or other order of whatever kind in respect of such property shall be granted or made by any Court or any other authority, and the Government shall not be divested or dispossessed of such property by operation of any law for the time being in force.
 
 
 
 
(2) Any such legal process as aforesaid subsisting immediately before the commencement of this Order shall cease to have effect on such commencement and all abandoned properties in custody of any Court, receiver, guardian or other person or persons appointed by it, shall upon delivery of the same being called for by the Government, be delivered to the Government.
 
 
 
 
1[(3) No Court shall pass an order in any suit or proceeding granting a temporary or ad-interim injunction restraining the Government or the Deputy Commissioner or the Sub-divisional Magistrate or the authorised officer, or any other officer or person acting under the authority, orders or directions of any of them, from taking possession of any property if any notice under, or purported to be under, any provision of this Order has been served upon any person requiring or directing him to surrender possession of such property, and any such order passed by any Court before the commencement of the Bangladesh Abandoned Property (Control, Management and Disposal) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1976 (LV of 1976), shall stand vacated and cease to have effect.]

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    Clause (3) was inserted by section 2 of The Bangladesh Abandoned Property (Control, Management and Disposal) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1976 (Ordinance No. LV of 1976)
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