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    "id": 14343,
    "slug": "andhra-pradesh-andhra-area-inams-assessment-act-1955",
    "title": "Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Inams (Assessment) Act, 1955",
    "short_title": "Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Inams (Assessment) Act, 1955",
    "act_number": "(Act No. 17 of 1955)",
    "act_year": 1955,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Andhra Pradesh",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Inams (Assessment) Act, 1955",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, application and commencement:.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions:.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"Collector\" means a Revenue Divisional Officer and includes any person appointed by the State Government, whether by name or in virtue of his office, to exercise any of the functions of a Collector under this Act;\n(b) \"Inam\" means an inam land as defined in clause (c) or on assignment of land revenue on such inam land;\n(c) \"Inam land\" means any land the grant of which an inam has been made, confirmed or recognised by the Government, and includes an inam land in a ryotwari area [and any land in the merged territory of Banganapalle in respect of which the grant in inam has been made, confirmed or recognised by any former Ruler of that territory] but does not include an inam constituting an estate under the Madras Estates Land Act, 1908 (Madras Act 1 of 1908);\n(d) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(e) \"settlement\" includes resettlement.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 1
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Levy of full Assessment:.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) if a settlement is in force in the village in which the inam land is situated, at the rates of assessment set out in such notification for lands of the same tarram and classification;\n(b) in cases not falling under clause (a), at the rates of assessment to be fixed by the Collector with reference to settlement rates for similar lands in neighbouring ryotwari villages:\n(b) Any person deeming himself aggrieved by a decision of the Collector under clause (a) may prefer an appeal to the District Collector within the prescribed period, and the District Collector may, after giving the appellant an opportunity of being heard, pass such orders on the appeal as he thinks fit;\n(c) The decision of the District Collector under clause (b), and in case where no appeal has been preferred the decision of the Collector under clause (a), shall, subject to provisions of this Act, be final and shall not be liable to be questioned in a court of law.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Presumption of service inams:.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Resumption of service inams:.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Rights as between inamdar and other persons not affected:.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Power to correct mistakes:.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Delegation of powers:.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Power to remove difficulties:.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Power to make rules:.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the procedure to be followed by the Collector and the District Collector in inquiries and appeals under this Act;\n(b) the manner of publication of notification under Section 3, sub-sections (2) and (3).",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "AP206",
        "Act Number": "(Act No. 17 of 1955)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1955",
        "Short Title": "Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Inams (Assessment) Act, 1955",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Andhra Pradesh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}