Section 20: Additional penal rent for unlawful alienation.
(1) If there has been any breach of any of the provisions of section 22 or 23 of this Act the Governor may in lieu of revoking the statutory right of occupancy concerned, demand that the holder shall pay an additional and penal rent for and in respect of each day during which the land the subject of the statutory right of occupancy or any portion thereof or any buildings or other works erected thereon shall be or remain in the possession, control or occupation of any person whomsoever other than the holder.
(2) Such additional and penal rent shall be payable upon demand and shall be recoverable as rent.
(3) The acceptance by or on behalf of the Governor of any such additional and penal rent shall not operate as a waiver by the Governor of any breach of section 22 or 23 of this Act which may continue after the date up to and in respect of which such additional and penal rent has been paid or is due and owing and the Governor shall accordingly be entitled to exercise in respect of any such continuing breach all or any of the powers conferred upon him by this Act.
Cite this section
Section 20, LAND USE ACT (1978).
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