(1)Notwithstanding any law for the time being in force or any usage or custom or the terms of any contract or grant, if it appears to Government that for any two consecutive years including any period before the commencement of this Act any land has remained uncultivated through default either of the landholder or of the tenant, or that cultivation of any land has seriously suffered for any other cause whatsoever, or that any land capable of being used, if reclaimed or otherwise improved howsoever, has not been so reclaimed or otherwise improved, and cultivated or that any land is remaining as a pasture land in excess of the ordinary grazing requirements of the cattle of the persons entitled to graze cattle thereon, the Government may after such enquiry as may be prescribed declare by notification in the [Official Gazette] [Substituted for 'Jarida' by the APAO 1957.] that the management of such land shall be assumed, and such declaration shall be conclusive.
