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The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received the assent of the

President on the19th August 2019 and is hereby published for general information:-

ACT No. 36 OF 2019.

An Act further to amend the Right to Fair Compensation and

Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement

Act, 2013 in its application to the State of Tamil Nadu.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in

the Sixty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Right to Fair Compensation and

Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement

(Tamil Nadu Second Amendment) Act, 2014.

Short title, extent

and commence-

ment.

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Tamil Nadu.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of

January 2014.

Central Act 30 of

2013.

2. In section 24 of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency

in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, in

sub-section (2), after the proviso, the following proviso and Explanation

shall be added, namely:-

Amendment of

section 24.

“Provided further that nothing contained in this sub-section shall

apply, in case of land acquisition proceedings initiated under the Land

Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central Act I of 1894), where the land acquisition

or dispossession of land is under litigation before the court as on the

1st day of January 2014 or where the land owner has not made any claim

for compensation or has not claimed the compensation amount as on the

1st day of January 2014; or where the possession of the land has been

taken, but the land or any portion thereof has been later encroached; or

where physical possession of land or any portion of the land has not been

taken on account of any encroachment.

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TAMIL NADU

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GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU

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Explanation.–Where the compensation payable under the Land

Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central Act I of 1894) has been deposited in a

treasury or in a court, such compensation shall be deemed to have been

deposited in the account of the beneficiaries and paid in accordance

with the provision of the said Land Acquisition Act, for the purpose of this

sub-section.”.

(By order of the Governor)

C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR,

Secretary to Government (FAC),

Law Department.

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