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EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 1

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 58] NEW DELHI, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1966/MAGHA 16, 1887

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MINISTRY OF LAW

(Legislative Department)

New Delhi, 5th February, 1966/Magha 16, 1887 (Saka)

THE

DELHI

LAND

REFORMS

(AMENDMENT)

ORDINANCE, 1966

No. 2 OF 1966

Promulgated by the President in the Seventeenth Year of the

Republic of India

An Ordinance further to amend the Delhi Land Reforms Act,

1954.

WHEREAS Parliament is rot in session and the President is

satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary for him

to take immediate action;

Now, THEREFORE, in

exercise of the powers conferred by

clause (1) of article 123 of the Constitution, the President is pleased

to promulgate the following Ordinance: —

1 (1) This Ordinance may be called the Delhi Land Reforms

(Amendment) Ordinance, 1966.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

Short title

and com-

mencement.

(679)

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2. During the period of operation of this Ordinance, the Delhi

Land Reforms Act, 1954 (hereinafter referred to as the principal

Act), shall have effect as if it had been amended and had

always

been amended as specified in sections 3 and 4.

3. In section 3 of the principal Act, for

clause (6) ind clause

(19A),

the following

clauses shall respectively

be

substituted,

namely •. - -

'(6) "Deputy Commissioner" includes—

(i) a Collector;

(ii) an Additional Collector;

(tit) a Revenue

Assistant

empowered

by the Chief

Commissioner by notification in the Official Gazette to dis-

charge all or any of the functions of a Deputy Commissioner

under this Act; and

(iv) an Assistant Collector oi the first grade or class

empowered as aforesaid;

(19A) "Revenue Assistant"

includes

any

Assistant

Col-

Lector of the first grade or class empowered by the Chief Com-

missioner to perform all or any of the functions of a Revenue

Assistant under this Act;'.

4. In section 13 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), for clause

(f), the following clause shall be substituted, namely: —

"(f) a tenant of or over twelve years in Shahdara Circle

and a non-occupancy tenant in any part of the Union territory

of Delhi other than a non-occupancy tenant referred

to in

clause (d);".

5. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in

the

principal Act or in any other law for the time being in force or in

any judgment, decree or order of any court,—•

(a) all declarations (whether general or individual)

con-

ferring or purporting to confer Bhumidhari rights in favour of

any person or class of persons under any of the clauses (a)

to

(c) of sub-section (1) of section 11, or in favour of any tenant

Delhi Act s

of 1954 to

be tempo-

rarl y amen-

ded.

Amendment

of section 3.

Amendment

of icction 13.

Validation

of action

taken under

sections 11

and 13.

SEC. 11

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or class of tenants under any of the clauses (a) to (h) of sub-

section (1) of section 13, of the principal Act, made before the

commencement of this Ordinance by the Deputy Commissioner

or a Revenue Assistant (whether or not such Revenue Assistant

was empowered by the Chief Commissioner to discharge all or

any of the functions of a Deputy Commissioner) shall be deemed

to be, and to have always been made by such Deputy Commis-

sioner or, as the case may be, Revenue Assistant in accordance

with law and the persons or class of persons or the tenants or

class of tenants in whose favour any such declaration has been

made shall be deemed to have been validly and

lawfully

declared as Bhumidhars :

Provided that nothing herein contained shall affect the right

of any person to call in question any such declaration on the

ground only that the entries in the revenue records on the basis

of which such declaration has been made are incorrect;

(b) all suits, appeals and other proceedings relating to any

such declaration pending before any court or other authority

immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance, other

than those based on the ground referred to in the proviso to

clause (a), shall, on such commencement, abate.

S. RADHAKRISHNAN,

President.

S. P. SEN-VARMA,

Secy, to the Govt. of India.

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