THE ASSAM ADHIARS PROTECTION AND REGULATION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1959

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    "title": "THE ASSAM ADHIARS PROTECTION AND REGULATION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1959",
    "short_title": "The Assam Adhiars Protection and Regulation (Amendment) Act, 1959",
    "act_number": "VI",
    "act_year": 1960,
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    "location": "Assam",
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    "enactment_date": "1960-03-09",
    "description": "The Assam Adhiars Protection and Regulation (Amendment) Act, 1959",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "An ACT",
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            "content": "An Act further to amend the Assam Adhiars Protection and Regulation Act, 1498",
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            "content": "WHEREAS it is expedient further to amend the Assam Adhiars Protection and Regulation Act, 1948, hereinafter called the Principal Act, in the manner hereinafter appearing;\nIt is hereby enacted in the Tenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-",
            "footnote": "Assam Act XII of 1948",
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            "content": "1. (1) This Act may be called the Assam Adhiars Protection and Regulation (Amendment) Act, 1959.",
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            "content": "(2) It shall have the like extent as the Principal Act.",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(3)",
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            "content": "(3) It shall come into force at once.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2",
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            "content": "2. In Section 2A of the Principal Act, after sub-section (2), the following sub-section (3) shall be inserted, namely:---",
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        {
            "number": "2A",
            "title": "Section 2A(3)",
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            "content": "\"(3) The State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, dissolve, at any time, an Adhi Conciliation Board established under sub-section (i) or terminate the office of the member and appoint a new member in the vacancy caused, if so considered expedient.\"",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3",
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            "content": "3. After Section 4 of the Principal Act, the following Section 4A shall be inserted, namely:-",
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            "number": "4A",
            "title": "Section 4A",
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            "content": "\"4A. Subject to any action taken by the Adhi Conciliation Board under Section 4 and notwithstanding anything contained in clause (c) of Section 6A, the Chairman of the Adhi Conciliation Board shall, on a preliminary enquiry made in this behalf, have power to pass an interim order restoring the possession of the land to the Adhiar and shall put him in possession thereof within a period not exceeding three weeks in the manner as prescribed if it appears to him that the Adbiar cultivating any land during the preceding agricultural year is prevented by a land-lord or any person claiming superior interest from cultivating such land in the subsequent year.\"",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "Section 4",
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            "content": "4. After Section 11 of the Principal Act, the following Section 11A shall be inserted, namely:-",
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            "number": "11A",
            "title": "Section 11A",
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            "content": "\"11A. No legal practitioner or a pleader's clerk shall appear, plead or act on behalf of any party in any proceeding or matter before the Chairman or the Adhi Conciliation Board.\"",
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        "Act ID": "196006",
        "Act Number": "VI",
        "Enactment Date": "1960-03-09",
        "Act Year": "1960",
        "Short Title": "The Assam Adhiars Protection and Regulation (Amendment) Act, 1959",
        "Department": "Law Department, Government of Assam",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:12"
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