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Assam Adhiars Protection and Regulation Act, 1948
Assam Adhiars Protection and Regulation Act, 1948
Sections
1. Short title extent and commencement.
Section 12. Definitions.
Section 23. Adhiar to continue to cultivate adhi land.
Section 36. Power to fix the rate of rent on the basis of produce of the land.
Section 68. Penalty for omission to deliver receipt.
Section 89. Supersession.
Section 910. Mode of recovery of money ordered to be paid.
Section 1012. Bar of jurisdiction of Civil Courts.
Section 1213. Indemnity.
Section 1314. Power to make rules.
Section 14
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"title": "Assam Adhiars Protection and Regulation Act, 1948",
"short_title": "Assam Adhiars Protection and Regulation Act, 1948",
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"content": "(1) \"Adhiar\" means a person who under the system generally known, as Adhi (whether Guchiadhi or Guti-adhi), barga, chukti, bhag or chukani cultivates the land or another person on condition of delivering a share or quantity of the produce of such land to that person ;\n(2) \"Agricultural lands\" means land used for agricultural purposes;\n(3) \"Agricultural year\" means the year commencing on the first day of Baisakh or Bahag ;\n(4) \"Cultivating adhiar\" means an adhiar who cultivates land himself or with the members of his family or dependants or hired labourers and does not include a person who lets out his land for cultivation;\n(5) \"Land-lord\" means the person directly under whom the adhiar holds the land on condition of delivering a share or quantity of the produce thereof;\n(6) \"Notification\" means a notification published in the official Gazette;\n[(7) \"Personal cultivation\" means cultivation by the person himself, or by any member of his family or by his servants or hired labourers on fixed remuneration payable in cash or kind but not in crop share, under personal supervision of the person himself or any member of his family, provided it is accompanied by the bearing of risks of cultivation by the owner and by residence in the village in which the land is situate or in a nearby village within a distance of five miles during the greater part of the agricultural seasons :\n(8) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act ;\n(9) \"Revenue Officer\" means any officer appointed by the [State Government] by name or by virtue of his office to discharge any of the functions of a Revenue Officer under this Act and includes the Deputy Commissioner of the District and the Sub divisional Officer of a Subdivision.\n[2A. Establishment and constitution of Adhi Conciliation Board.",
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"title": "3. Adhiar to continue to cultivate adhi land.",
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"content": "[4. Power to put adhiar in possession of the land if illegally ousted and to award compensation.\n[5. Power to order adhiar to cease to cultivate adhi land and to eviction certain grounds.\n[(i) that the land is bonafide required by the landlord for his personal cultivation ;\n(a) if the aggregate area of lands in actual occupation of an adhiar does not exceed 10 bighas, then he shall not be evicted therefrom until he has been provided with land of equivalent value in the locality ;\n(b) if the aggregate area of lands in actual occupation of an adhiar exceeds 10 bighas, then the adhiar shall not be evicted from a minimum area of 10 bighas as selected by him (adhiar), until he has been provided with land equivalent value in the locality, but the landlord shall be entitled to resume for his personal cultivation any area in excess of these 10 bighas. In no case, however, the aggregate area of lands so resumed from all his adhiars taken together, along with any other land already held under personal cultivation by the landlord or any member of his family on the date of resumption shall exceed an overall limit of 100 bighas ;\n(c) if the landlord is a minor, or a widow, or a person subjected to any physical or mental disability or a member of the Military, Naval or Air Force of the Union, then it shall be obligatory on him to leave a minimum area with the adhiar as provided for in (a) or (b) above ;\n(d) if the landlord does not cultivate the land within one year or sublets it to others within two years from the date he gets possession of the land by virtue of this clause, the evicted adhiar shall be restored to possession in the manner prescribed]",
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"title": "6. Power to fix the rate of rent on the basis of produce of the land.",
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"content": "(a) Where he supplies plough [one-fourth] , cattle and cultivation is done with their help.\n(b) Where he does not supply [one-fifth] plough cattle.\n[6A. Settlement of disputes.\n[7. Receipt for the crop.\n(ii) The landlord should prepare and retain a counterfoil of the receipt signed by the adhiar or his duly authorised agent.\n(iii) The receipt and the counterfoil shall contain a description of the land for which crop is delivered, the total quantity the crop due from the adhiar, the quantity delivered and the year for which the crop is delivered.\n(iv) If a receipt does not contain substantially the above particulars, it shall be presumed, untill the contrary is shown to be an acquittance in full of the landlord's share of the crop due from the adhiar upto the date on which the receipt is given.",
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"title": "9. Supersession.",
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"title": "10. Mode of recovery of money ordered to be paid.",
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"content": "[11. Appeals.",
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"title": "13. Indemnity.",
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"Act Number": "(Assam Act No. 12 of 1948)",
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"Act Year": "1948",
"Short Title": "Assam Adhiars Protection and Regulation Act, 1948",
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