THE ASSAM LAND AND REVENUE REGULATION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1997

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    "title": "THE ASSAM LAND AND REVENUE REGULATION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1997",
    "short_title": "The Assam Land and Revenue Regulation (Amendment) Act, 1997",
    "act_number": "XVIII",
    "act_year": 1997,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
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    "enactment_date": "1997-05-21",
    "description": "The Assam Land and Revenue Regulation (Amendment) Act, 1997",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "An ACT",
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            "content": "further to amend the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "Preamble",
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            "content": "Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886, hereinafter referred to as the principal Regulation, in the manner hereinafter appearing;\nIt is hereby enacted in the Forty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows :-",
            "footnote": "1 of 1886",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1. Short title, extent and commencement",
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            "content": "1. (1) This Act may be called the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation (Amendment) Act, 1997.\n(2) It shall have the like extent as the principal Regulation.\n(3) It shall come into force at once.",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(1)",
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            "content": "This Act may be called the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation (Amendment) Act, 1997.",
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        },
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(2)",
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            "content": "It shall have the like extent as the principal Regulation.",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(3)",
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            "content": "It shall come into force at once.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Amendment of section 28",
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            "content": "In the principal Regulation, in section 28, after the existing proviso, the following new proviso shall be inserted, namely :-",
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        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "Proviso to Section 28",
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            "content": "Provided further that notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force or in any lease, grant, settlement, transfer, allotment, acquisition, agreement or contract, the State Government may assess revenue on all or any land held by any individual, organisation, company, association, society, authority, public undertaking or any body whether corporate or not, whether Government or semi Government and whether under the Central or State Government by way of transfer, allotment, acquisition and used by such individual, organisation, company, association, society, authority, undertaking or body for trade, commerce, industries or any other purposes.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3. Insertion of section 34A",
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            "content": "In the principal Regulation, after section 34, the following new section 34 A shall be inserted, namely :-",
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        {
            "number": "34A",
            "title": "Section 34A. Revision of rates of revenue by the State Government",
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            "content": "Notwithstanding anything contained in the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886 and the rules framed thereunder or in any other law for the time being in force the State Government may, on its own motion or otherwise, for reasons to be recorded in writing, at any time, order revision of the rates of revenue for a local area or class of estates, both for town and areas other than town land as per rules to be prescribed.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "199718",
        "Act Number": "XVIII",
        "Enactment Date": "1997-05-21",
        "Act Year": "1997",
        "Short Title": "The Assam Land and Revenue Regulation (Amendment) Act, 1997",
        "Department": "Legislative Department : Legislative Branch, Government of Assam",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:16"
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