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REGISTERED No. D.221

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II-Section 1

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No 3 NEW DELHI, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1966/PHALGUNA 28, 1887

Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed

as a separate compilation.

MINISTRY OF LAW

(Legislative Department)

New Delhi, the 19th March, 1966/Phalguna 28, 1887 (Saka)

The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the Pre- sident on the 18th March, 1966, and is hereby published for general information: —

THE DELHI LAND REFORMS (AMENDMENT)

ACT, 1966

No. 1 OF 1968

[18th March, 1966] An Act further to amend the Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventeenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. This Act may be called the Delhi Land Reforms (Amendment) Act, 1966.

Short

title.

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2. In section 3 of the Delhi Land Reforms Act. 1954 (hereinafter

referred to as the principal Act),—

Amend- ment of section 3.

Delhi Act 8 of 1954.

(a) for clause (6), the following clause shall be, and shall

be deemed always to have been, substituted, namely: —

'(6) "Deputy Commissioner" includes—

(i) a Collector;

(ii) an Additional Collector;

(Hi) a Revenue Assistant empowered by the Chief Commissioner by notification in the Official Gazette to discharge all or any of the functions of a Deputy Com- missioner under this Act; and

(iu) an Assistant Collector of the first grade or

class empowered as aforesaid;';

(b) for clause (19A), the following clause shall be, and

shall be deemed always to have been, substituted, namely: —

l(19A) "Revenue Assistant" includes any Assistant Collector of the first grade or class empowered by the Chief Commissioner to perform all or any of the functions of a Revenue Assistant under this Act;'.

3. In section 13 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2), for clause (f), the following clause shall be, and shall be deemed always to have been, substituted, namely: —

Amend- ment of section 13.

"(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);".

4. 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,—

Valida- tion of action taken under sections 11 and 13.

(a) all declarations (whether general or individual) confer- ring 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 oi class of tenants under any of the clauses (a) to (h) of sub-see tlon (1) of section 13. of the principal Act, made before the 5tl day of February, 1966, by the Deputy Commissioner or l

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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 Com- missioner 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 declar- ed 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 inoorrect;

(b) all suits, appeals and other proceedings relating to any such declaration pending before any court or other authority immediately before the 5th day of February, 1966, •other than those based on the ground referred to in the proviso to clause (a), shall, on that date, be deemed to have abated.

5. (1) The Delhi Land Reforms (Amendment) Ordinance, 1966 2 of 196".

Is hereby repealed.

Repeal and saving.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any actior taken under the said Ordinance shall be deemed to have been dom or taken under this Act as if this Act had commenced on the 5tl day of February, 1966.

S. P. SEN-VARMA,

Secy, to the Govt. of India.

ERRATA In the Coal Mines Provident Fund and Bonus Schemes (Amend- ment) Act, 1965 (45 of 1965) as published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 1, dated December 14, 1965—

Page 627—

In the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 10B as inserted by section 10,—

(i) In line 4, for "was" read "haa"; and

(di) In clause (a) for "and of" read "any of".

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ERRATA

In the Ordinance, 1966 (No. 1 of 1966) of the Ministry of Law

(Legislative Department) dated 1st February, 1966, published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary, Part II—Section 1, dated 1st Feb- ruary, 1066, the Issue No- in Hindi and English and also page NOB. should be read as follows:—

fOTa*fo 57" TCOdaff" 1"

for "No. 57" read "No. 1"

for pages "677, 678" read pages "1, 2".

In the Ordinance, 1966 (No. 2 of 1966) of the Ministry of Law (Legislative Department) dated 5th February, 1966, published In the Gazette of India Extraordinary, Part II—Section 1, dated 5th Febru- ary, 1966, the Issue No. in Hindi and English and also page Nos. should be read as follow:—