{ "id": 15544, "slug": "bihar-underground-pipelines-acquisition-of-right-of-user-in-land-act-2011", "title": "Bihar Underground Pipelines (Acquisition of Right of User in Land) Act, 2011", "short_title": "Bihar Underground Pipelines (Acquisition of Right of User in Land) Act, 2011", "act_number": "(Bihar Act 15 of 2011)", "act_year": 2011, "act_type": "STATE", "location": "Bihar", "law_status": "unknown", "enactment_date": null, "description": "Bihar Underground Pipelines (Acquisition of Right of User in Land) Act, 2011", "preamble": "", "section_label": "Section", "sections": [ { "number": "1", "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 0 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Definitions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) \"Competent authority\" means any person or authority authorized by the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, to perform the functions under this Act;\n(b) \"Corporation\" means any body corporate established under any Central or State Act or a company formed and registered under the Companies Act, 1956 (Central Act 1 of 1956);\n(c) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(d) \"State Government\" means the Government of the State of Bihar;\n(e) \"Underground pipeline\" means an underground pipeline laid at a depth of not less than one and a half meter of the land surface.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": true, "sort_order": 1 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. Publication of notification for Acquisition.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 2 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Declaration of acquisition of right of user in Land.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 3 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Power to enter and survey.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to enter upon, survey and take levels of any land specified in the notification;\n(b) to dig or bore into the sub-soil;\n(c) to set out the intended line of work;\n(d) to mark such levels, boundaries and lines by placing marks and cutting trenches;\n(e) to cut down and clear away any part of any standing crop, fence or jungle, where survey is not completed, levels not taken, boundaries and lines are not marked; and\n(f) to do all other acts necessary to ascertain whether underground pipelines can be laid under the land;", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 4 }, { "number": "6", "title": "6. Laying underground pipelines.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) It shall be lawful for any person authorized by the State Government or the corporation, as the case may be, and its servants to enter upon the land and lay underground pipelines or to do any other act necessary for laying of such underground pipelines:\n(a) any land which immediately before the date of the notification under sub-section (1) of section-3 was used for residential purpose; or\n(b) any land which is appurtenant to a dwelling house;\n(ii) Such land shall be used only for laying underground pipelines and maintaining, examining, repairing, altering or removing any such underground pipelines or for doing any other act necessary for any of the aforesaid purposes or for the utilization of such underground pipelines.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 5 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Power to enter into land for inspection.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 6 }, { "number": "8", "title": "8. Restrictions regarding use of land.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) construct any building or any other structure;\n(ii) construct or excavate any tank, well, reservoir or dam; or\n(iii) plant any tree on that land.\n(2) The owner or occupier of the land shall not do any act which may cause or likely to cause any damage in any manner whatsoever to the underground pipeline.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 7 }, { "number": "9", "title": "9. Compensation.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) the removal of trees or standing crops, if any, on the land;\n(ii) the temporary severance of the land under which the underground pipeline has been laid from other lands belonging to, or in the occupation of such person; or\n(iii) any injury to any other property, whether movable or immovable or the earnings of such person caused in any other manner.\n(2) Where the right of user of any land has vested in the State Government or the corporation, the State Government or the corporation, as the case may be, shall be liable to pay, in addition to compensation, if any, compensation calculated at twenty percent of the market value of that land on the date of publication of the declaration under sub-section (1) of section-4. The market value of the land on the said date shall be determined by the competent authority.\n(3) If the market value determined by the competent authority is not acceptable to either of the parties, an application may be made by the aggrieved party within thirty days to the Court as defined under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, whose decision shall be final.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 8 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. Deposit and payment of compensation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 9 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. Period within which compensation shall be made.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 10 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Special powers in cases of urgency.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) make payment of eighty per centum of the compensation for such land as estimated by him to the person interested and entitled thereto; and\n(b) pay to him, unless prevented by one or more of the contingencies mentioned in section 9, and where the competent authority is so prevented, the provisions of section-9, shall apply as they apply to the payment of compensation under that section.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 11 }, { "number": "13", "title": "13. Competent authority to have certain powers of civil court.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;\n(b) requiring the discovery and production of any document;\n(c) recording of evidence on affidavits;\n(d) requisitioning any public record from any court or office;\n(e) issuing commission for examination of witnesses.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 12 }, { "number": "14", "title": "14. Protection for action taken in good faith.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 13 }, { "number": "15", "title": "15. Bar of jurisdiction.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 14 }, { "number": "16", "title": "16. Punishment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 15 }, { "number": "17", "title": "17. Power to remove difficulties.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 16 }, { "number": "18", "title": "18. Power to make rules.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 17 } ], "metadata": { "Act ID": "Last Updated 4th February, 2020 [bh777]", "Act Number": "(Bihar Act 15 of 2011)", "Enactment Date": "", "Act Year": "2011", "Short Title": "Bihar Underground Pipelines (Acquisition of Right of User in Land) Act, 2011", "Type": "STATE", "Location": "Bihar" }, "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19" }