Santhal Parganas Tenancy (Supplementary Provisions) Act, 1949

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    "slug": "santhal-parganas-tenancy-supplementary-provisions-act-1949",
    "title": "Santhal Parganas Tenancy (Supplementary Provisions) Act, 1949",
    "short_title": "Santhal Parganas Tenancy (Supplementary Provisions) Act, 1949",
    "act_number": "(Bihar Act 14 of 1949)",
    "act_year": 1949,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": "2026-04-01",
    "description": "Santhal Parganas Tenancy (Supplementary Provisions) Act, 1949",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, commencement and extent.",
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            "content": "",
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            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Power to vary local extent of the Act and effect of the withdrawal of the Act from any area.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Affect the previous operation of this Act in such area or anything Duly done or suffered there under before such withdrawal; or\n(b) affect any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred in such area under this Act before such withdrawal; or\n(c) affect any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed under this Act with reference to such area before such withdrawal; or\n(d) Affect any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid;",
            "footnote": "",
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            "sort_order": 1
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Repeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) 'aboriginal' means a person who belongs to an aboriginal or semi-aboriginal tribe or caste specified in Schedule B and includes a person belonging to such other aboriginal or semi-aboriginal tribe or caste as may, from time to time, be notified by the [State] Government in this behalf;\n(ii) \"Agricultural year\" means, where the Bengali year prevails, the year commencing on the first day of Baisakh, where the Fails year prevails the year commencing on the first day of Asin, where any other year prevails for agricultural purposes, that year;\n(iii) \"bhugut-bandha or complete usufructuary mortgage\" means a transfer of the interest of a raiyat in his holding or part of the holding for the purpose of securing the payment of money advanced or to be advanced by way of loan, upon the condition that the loan, with all interest thereon, shall be deemed to be extinguished by the profit arising from the holding or part of the holding during the period of the mortgage;\n(iv) [ \"Commissioner' means the Commissioner of the Santhal Parganas Division] ;\n(v) \"Community\" means the social group to which a person belongs and for the purposes of this Act there shall be two such groups, aboriginal and non-aboriginal;\n(vi) \"Deputy Collector\" includes an Assistant Collector and a Sub-Deputy Collector;\n(vii) [ \"Deputy Commissioner\" means the Deputy Commissioner of the [Dumka, Sahibganj] , Godda, Deoghar, Pakur and includes] ,-\n(a) Additional Deputy Commissioner, Sub-divisional Officer or Deputy Collector, empowered by the [State] Government to discharge any of the functions of Deputy Commissioner under this Act; and\n(b) any Deputy Collector, whom, subject to the control of the State Government, the Deputy Commissioner may, by general or special order, authorize to exercise any of his functions under this Act;\n(viii) \"Holding\" means a parcel or parcels of land held by a raiyat and forming the subject of a separate tenancy\"\n(ix) \"khas village\" means a village in which there is no mulraiyat nor for the time being any village headman irrespective of whether there was or was not previously a mulraiyat or village headman in the village;\n(x) \"landlord\" means a person other than the village headman or mulraiyat entitled to receive rent and includes a proprietor, a tenure-holder, a ghatwal and the [Government] ;\n(xi) \"non-aboriginal\" means a person who does not belong to any aboriginal or semi-aboriginal tribe or caste specified in Schedule B or to any other aboriginal or semi-aboriginal tribe or caste notified by the [State] Government under clause (i) of Section 4;\n(xii) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made by the State Government under this Act;\n(xiii) \"raiyat\" means a person not being a landlord, who has acquired a right to hold land for the purpose of cultivating it by himself or by members of his family or by hired servants; and includes the successor in interest of a person who has acquired such a right;\n(xiv) \"Recorded\" means recorded in the record-of-rights;\n(xv) \"Rent\" means whatever is lawfully payable in money by-\n(a) a village headman or mulraiyat of a village to the landlord of that village in accordance with the record- of-rights hereinafter referred to as village rent, or\n(b) a raiyat, on account of the use or occupation of the land held by him to h is landlord, either directly or through a village headman or mulraiyat as the case may be, and includes all dues (other than personal services) which are recoverable under any law for the time being in force as if they were rent;\n(xvi) \"Santal Civil Rules\" means the directions issued by the [State] Government for observance in the administration of civil justice in the Santal Parganas by officers appointed under Clause (2) Section 1 of the Santal Parganas Act, 1855 (37 of 1855).\n(xvii) [ \"Santhal Parganas\" means the Santal Parganas Division comprising of Dumka, Sahibganj, Godda and Deoghar districts] .\n(xviii) \"Settlement rate of rent' means the rate of rent mentioned as settlement rate in the record-of-rights.\n[(xix) \"tenant\" includes a tenure-holder, village headman and mulraiyat;]\n(xx) \"Vacant holding\" means an abandoned holding or holding of which the raiyat has died without heirs;\n(xxi) \"Village\" means,-\n(a) the area defined, surveyed and recorded as a distinct and separate village in the map and record-of-rights prepared under any law for the time being in force, and\n(b) Where a survey has not been made and a record-of- rights has not been prepared under any such law, such area as the Deputy Commissioner may, with the sanction of the Commissioner, by general or special order, declare to constitute a village:\n(xxii) \"village community means the body of all the jamabandi raiyats of a village, their co-sharers, children and heirs; and\n(xxiii) \"village headman\" means the person appointed or recognised whether before or after the commencement of this Act by the Deputy Commissioner or other duly authorized officer to hold the office of a village headman whether known as pradhan, mustajur, manjhi or otherwise, but does not include a mulraiyat.\nChapter II\nVillage Headmen and Mulraiyats",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Appointment of a village hweadman of a khas village.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Landlord to report the death of village headman.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Village headman to be granted patta and to execute kabuliyat and furnish security.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Landlord to supply copies of jamabandi and record-of-rights to newly-appointed village headman.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Non-transferability of village headman's office.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Only land recorded as such to be treated as mularaiyat ka jote and mulraiyati jote.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Headmen's reward fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter III\nRaiyats",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Classes of raiyats.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Resident jamabandi raiyats, that is to say, persons recorded as jamabandi raiyats who reside or have their family residence in the village in which they are recorded.\n(b) Non-resident jamabandi raiyats, that is to say persons recorded as jamabandi raiyats who do not reside or have their family residence in the village in which they are recorded.\n(c) new raiyats, that is to say, person recorded as naya raiyats or nutan raiyats.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Rights of raiyat in respect of use of land.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) In any manner which is authorized by local usage or custom, or\n(b) Irrespective of any local usage or custom, in any manner which does not materially impair the value of the land or render it unfit for the purpose of cultivation.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Raiyats not to be ejected by order of the Deputy Commissioner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Raiyat's right to manufacture tiles and bricks.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Raiyat's right to construct bandhs, etc. on his own holding and to enjoy fish and other produce.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Rights of raiyats in trees on his own holding.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Plant trees, orchards and bamboos on any land in his holding and cut, fell and appropriate the same.\n(b) Cut, fell and appropriate any trees or bamboos standing on such land :\n(c) Appropriate the flowers, fruits and other products of any trees or bamboos standing on such land:",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Raiyat's right to erect buildings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Division of holding and distribution of rent.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) After serving the notice required by clause (a) and hearing the parities and holding such enquiry as he thinks fit, the Deputy Commissioner shall distribute the rent of the holding calculated on the basisi of settlement rate of rent, and his decision shall be final.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Transfer of raiyat's rights.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "i. a banking company as defined in the Banking regulation Act 1949,\nii. the State Bank of India constituted under the State Bank of India Act, 1955,\niii. a subsidiary Bank as defined in the State Bank of India) Subsidiary Bank) Act, 1959,\niv. a corresponding new bank constituted under the banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970,\nv. Agricultural Refinance Corporation constituted under the Agricultural Refinance Corporation Act, 1963,\nvi. the Agro- Industries Corporation,\nvii. the Agricultural Finance Corporation Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956, and\nviii. any other institution as may be notified in this behalf as a financial institution by the State Government in the Official Gazette.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Transfer of raiyati land by bhugut-bandha or complete usufructuary mortgage by a non-aboriginal raiyat and its limits.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) a land mortgage bank duly established by the [State] Government, or\n(ii) a grain goal recognised by the Deputy Commissioner, or\n(iii) a society registered or deemed to be registered under the Bihar and Orissa Co-operative Societies Act, 1935 [(Bihar and Orissa Act VI of 1935)] , or\n(iv) a raiyat of the santal Parganas :\n(a) no such transfer shall be recognised as valid unless it has been made by means of a registered deed and reported in the prescribed manner by the transferor and transferee to the Deputy Commissioner and to the landlord within one month of the registration of the deed,\n(b) no such transfer shall be made for a period exceeding six years and, on the expiry of the period of transfer, no further transfer of any of the lands of the transferor raiyat shall be permissible for a period of six years.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. A raiyat may make over his holding temporarily on trust for cultivation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) a raiyat's temporary absence from the village, or\n(b) his sickness or physical incapacity, or\n(c) loss of plough cattle due to any cause beyond his control, or\n(d) the raiyat being a widow or minor,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Exchange of raiyati land.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) The parties to the exchange are both jamabandi raiyats with respect to the lands proposed to be exchanged,\n(b) The lands proposed to be exchanged are situated in the same village or in a contiguous village,\n(c) The transaction is not a concealed sale but is a bona fide exchange sought to be made for the mutual convenience of the parties, and\n(d) The lands proposed to be exchanged are of the same value.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Registration of certain transfers of raiyati holdings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) when rent is payable in respect of the holding or portion, a fee of two per centum on the annual rent thereof: Provided that such fee shall not be less than eight annas or more than fifty rupees; and\n(b) When rent is not payable in respect of the holding or portion, a fee of one rupee:\n[24A. Registration of certain transfers of homestead.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Payment of landlord's registration fee, etc. compulsory at the time of the registration of a deed of gift or sale of a raiyati holding or a portion thereof.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Effect of registration.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VI\nSettlement of waste land vacant holdings",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Settlement of waste land to be made by patta in prescribed form.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Principles to be followed in settling waste land or vacant holding.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Fair and equitable distribution of land according to the requirements of each raiyat and his capacity to reclaim and cultivate;\n(b) any special claim for services rendered to the village community, society or State:\n(c) contiguity or proximity of the wste land to jamabandi land of the raiyat;\n(d) Provision for landless labourers who are bona fide permanent residents of the village and are recorded for a dwelling house in the village.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. A mulraiyat, Pradhan or village headman not to settle waste land or vacant holding with himself or co-mulraiyat without the sanction of the Deputy Commissioner.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Vacant holding not to be sub-divided for purpose of settlement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Two or more village headman, co-mulraiyat or landlords to settle waste land jointly.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Objection before the Deputy commissioner against settlement of waste land and vacant holdings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) After serving the notice required by clause (a) and hearing the parties and the enquiry the Deputy Commissioner may, in cases where settlement has been made, either confirm or modify or set aside",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Settlement of waste land liable to be set aside if not cultivated within five years.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "34.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Water reservoirs and canals for irrigation, etc. not be cultivated or converted to other purposes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Rivulets or nalas on the boundaries of villages, burning and burial grounds, camping grounds, boundary marks, roads, paths and places of worship not to be settled.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Raiyat's right to graze cattl.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Grazing land shall not be cultivated.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Raiyat's right to excavate tanks, etc., other than their holdings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Right of fishery in a khas tank not to interfere with raiyat's rights.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. No settlements of vacant holding and wast land in a Paharia village with a non-Paharia.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Ejectment of a person in unauthorized possession of agricultural land.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter V\nRent",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Rent in the kind not to be realized or recognised by any Court.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[43A. Time for payment of rent.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Raiyat, village headman and mulraiyat not liable to transferee of landlord's or mulraiyat's interest for rent paid to former landlord or mulraiyat, without notice of the transfer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Payment of rent by postal money order.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 43
        },
        {
            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Maintenance of account of rent of each raiyat by village headman, mulraiyat or landlord.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 44
        },
        {
            "number": "47",
            "title": "47. Receipts for rent and interest thereon.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to deliver to a raiyat, villag headman or mulraiyat a receipt in the prescribed form, or\n(b) to prepare and retain a counterfoil, in the prescribed form, of a receipt delivered to a raiyat, village headman or mulraiyat as aforesaid, or\n(c) to maintain and deliver to a raiyat or village headman, as the case may be, a statement of account as prescribed in Section 46,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 45
        },
        {
            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. State Government to prepare forms of receipts and statement of accounts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 46
        },
        {
            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Rent to be first charge on holdings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 47
        },
        {
            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Reduction of rent for special reasons.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) that the soil of a portion or the whole of such holdings of area has without the faults of the raiyats become permanently deteriorated by a deposit of sand by sub-version under water or by any other specific ground, sudden or gradual;\n(b) that the landlord of such holdings or area has failed in spite of due notice to carry out within a period of six months from the date of service of notice the arrangements in respect of irrigation which he is bound to maintain;\n(c) that there has been a fall not due to temporary cause in the average local Prices of staple food crops during the currency of the present rent.\n(2) in the case referred to in clause (a) the reduced rent shall bear top the previous rent the same proportion as the current prices bear to the prices prevailing at the time when the previous rent first became payable.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 48
        },
        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Duration of reduction of rent.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 49
        },
        {
            "number": "52",
            "title": "52. Penalty for exaction by landlord, etc., from tenant of anything in excess of the rent payable.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VI\nAcquisition of Land by Landlord for Certain Purposes",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 50
        },
        {
            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Acquisition of land by landlord for building and other purposes.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) The Deputy Commissioner may, on the application of a village headman, mulraiyat or raiyat of the village or of his own motion, sanction acquisition proceedings to be started with respect to such land as is referred to in clause (a), if he is satisfied after due enquiry that the acquisition is to be made for any of the purposes specified in the said clause.\n(c) On receipt of such application as is referred to in clauses (a) and (b), the Deputy Commissioner shall scrutinise it with a view to see that it satisfies the conditions of acquisition prescribed by the [State] Government in this behalf. If on such scrutiny of Deputy Commissioner considers the application to be not maintainable on the face of it, he may reject the application summarily.\nChapter VII\nJudicial Procedure",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 51
        },
        {
            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Power of State Government to make rules regarding procedure.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 52
        },
        {
            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. Successive suits against raiyat for recovery of rent.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 53
        },
        {
            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Ejectment.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 54
        },
        {
            "number": "57",
            "title": "57. Appeals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) by a Deputy Collector exercising powers of the Deputy Commissioner, to the Sub-divisional officer vested with the powers of the Deputy Commissioner in this behalf:\n(b) by a sub-divisional Officer exercising powers of the Deputy Commissioner, to the Deputy Commissioner:\n(c) by the Deputy Commissioner or the Additional Deputy Commissioner, to the Commissioner;\n(d) by the commissioner confirming the order of the Deputy commissioner dismissing a mulraiyat or co-mulraiyat under Section 11 of the Record-of-rights of Mulraiyati village, to a tribunal appointed by the [State] Government in this behalf.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 55
        },
        {
            "number": "58",
            "title": "58. Second Appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) When the appellate order was made by a Sub-divisional Officer vested with appellate power, to the Deputy Commissioner:\n(b) When the appellate order was made by the Deputy Commissioner or the Additional Deputy Commissioner, to the Commissioner.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 56
        },
        {
            "number": "59",
            "title": "59. Revision.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 57
        },
        {
            "number": "60",
            "title": "60. Review.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) in the case of a Deputy Collector or a Sub-divisional Officer, the permission of the Deputy Commissioner; and\n(b) in the case of the Deputy Commissioner or the Additional Deputy Commissioner, the permission of the Commissioner.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 58
        },
        {
            "number": "61",
            "title": "61. Order not revisable on technical grounds alone.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 59
        },
        {
            "number": "62",
            "title": "62. Control over Deputy Commissioner and Deputy Collectors.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 60
        },
        {
            "number": "63",
            "title": "63. Bar to suits.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VIII\nLimitation",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 61
        },
        {
            "number": "64",
            "title": "64. General rule of limitation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 62
        },
        {
            "number": "65",
            "title": "65. Limitation for ejectment suits.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[65A. Effect of repeal.\n(a) revive anything not in force or existing at the time at which the repeal takes effect; or\n(b) affect the previous operation of any enactment so repealed or anything auly done or suffered thereunder; or\n(c) afreet any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, or accrued or incurred under any enactment so repealed; or\n(d) affect any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any enactment so repealed; or\n(e) affect any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such fight, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid] ;",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 63
        },
        {
            "number": "66",
            "title": "66. Limitation for appeals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to the tribunal appointed under clause (d) of Section 57 or to the Commissioner, within ninety days from the date of the order appealed against; and\n(b) to the Deputy Commissioner or to the Sub-divisional Officer within sixty days of the order appealed against.\nChapter IX\nMiscelleneous Provisions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 64
        },
        {
            "number": "67",
            "title": "67. Penalties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) being a landlord, fails to repair and maintain any has bandhs, ahars dykes, dams, danrs, drains, tanks or any other water reservoirs or channels which he is bound, by the provisions of this Act or any law or anything having the force of law in the Santhal Parganas including any custom entered in the record-of-rights, to repair and maintain, or\n(b) being a landlord or an agent of a landlord, a village headman or mulraiyat, fails to perform any of the duties imposed by this Act, or any law or anything having the force of law in the Santhal Parganas including any custom entered in the record-of-rights, or\n(c) being a landlord, or the agent of a landlord, village headman or a mulraiyat, fails to repair, with the assistance of the raiyat, any bandhs, ahars, dams, dykes, drains, tanks, any other water reservoirs and irrigation channels, village paths or boundary marks which he and they are bound, by the provision of this Act or any law or anything having the force of law in the Santhal Parganas including any custom entered in the record-of-rights to repair, or fails to preserve any of the recorded village paths or camping or grazing grounds, or\n(d) being a landlord, or the agent of a landlord, a village headman or a mulraiyat, fails to report to competent authority any transfer of village land made in contravention of Section 20, or\n(e) being a landlord, or the agent of a landlord, fails to report to the Deputy Commissioner the death of a village headman as provided in Section 6, or\n(f) being a landlord, or the agent of a landlord, a village headman or a mulraiyat, settles any village waste land or vacant holding or any other holding or land with a non-jamabandi raiyat, or\n(g) being a landlord, or the agent of a landlord, fails to supply a newly appointed village headman either with original or with certified copies of the jamabandi and the record-of rights within the period specified in Section 8, or\n(h) being a raiyat-\n(i) fails to assist the landlord, or village headman or mulraiyat, as the case may be, in the repair of any village bandhs, ahars, dykes, dams, danrs, drains, tanks, any other water reservoirs and irrigation channels, village paths or boundary marks, which he is bound to do by the provisions of this Act or any law or anything having the force of law in the Santhal Parganas including any custom entered in the record-of-rights, or\n(ii) encroaches on any of the recorded village paths, camping or grazing grounds, or\n[* * * ]\n(iii) cuts down any village trees in contravention of the provisions of this Act or any law or anything having the force of law in the Santhal Parganas including any custom entered in the record-of-rights or otherwise uses, or prevents the use of, village forest in contravention of the provisions of this Act or any law or anything having the force of law in the Santhal parganas,",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 65
        },
        {
            "number": "68",
            "title": "68. Service of notice on landlord.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 66
        },
        {
            "number": "69",
            "title": "69. Bat to acquisition of right over certain lands.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) land held or acquired in contravention of the provision of Section 20, or\n(b) land acquired under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, for the Government or for any local authority or for a railway company, while such land remains the property of the Government or of any local authority or of a railway company, or\n(c) land recorded or demarcated as belonging to the Government or to a local authority which is used for any public works, such as a road, canal or embankment, or is required for the repair or maintenance of the same, while such land continues to be so used or required, or\n(d) a vacant holding retained by a village headman, mulraiyat and members of their family, or a landlord, or\n(e) village headman's official holding, grazing land, jeharthan and burning and burial grounds.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 67
        },
        {
            "number": "70",
            "title": "70. Recovery of dues.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 68
        },
        {
            "number": "71",
            "title": "71. Power to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) the manner of ascertaining the consent of resident jamabandi raiyat under Section 5;\n(ii) the manner in which a village headman shall discharge his duties;\n(iii) the manner in which copies of jamabandi will be certified under Section 8;\n(iv) the manner in which the headman's reward fund shall be managed under Section 11;\n(v) the forms to be used under this Act\n(vi). the manner of reporting a transfer of raiyat land under proviso (a) to sub-section (1) of Section 21;\n(vii) the amount of the process fee payable to the registering officer under sub-section (1) of Section 35 and the manner of serving a notice on foe landlord under sub-Section (2) of Section 25;\n(viii) foe manner of the service of a notice under clause (a) of sub-section (2) of Section 32;\n(ix) foe manner of the publication of foe general notice referred to in sub-section (2) of Section 44;\n(x) foe procedure to be followed by foe Deputy Commissioner in proceeding under Section 50;\n(xi) foe conditions of acquisition of land and the manner of giving possession of such land under Section 53;\n(xii), foe procedure to be followed by courts in dealing with application and other proceedings under this Act; and\n(xiii) any other matter by this Act required, expressly or impliedly to be prescribed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 69
        },
        {
            "number": "72",
            "title": "72. Saving of special enactments.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Schedule-A\n( See Section 3)\nEnactments Repealed\nEnactments Repealed\nYear\nYear\nNo.\nNo.\nShort title\nShort title\nExtent of repeal\nExtent of repeal\n1\n2\n3\n4\nPart I\nRegulations made by the Governor-General in\n\t\t\t\tCouncil\n1872\nIII\nThe Santal Parganas Settlement Regulation, 1872\nSections 27 and 28\n1886\nII\nThe Santal Parganas Rent Regulation, 1886\nSections 25 and 25 A\n1907\nIII\nThe Santhal Parganas Rent (Amendment)\n\t\t\t\tRegulation, 1907",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 70
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1934\nI\nThe Santhal Parganas Rent (Amendment)\n\t\t\t\tRegulation, 1934",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 71
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Part II\nPart II\nRegulation made by the Governor of Bihar\nRegulation made by the Governor of Bihar\n1944\n1\nThe Santal Parganas\n\t\t\t\tSettlement\n(Amendment) Regulation, 1944 The whole\nSchedule-B\nThe following aboriginal and semi-aboriginal tribes and castes shall be treated as aboriginals for the purposes of this Act",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 72
        },
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Bauri",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 73
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Kora",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 74
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Dhangar",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 75
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Mohuli",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 76
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Dom",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 77
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Paharia",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 78
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Hari",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 79
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Rajwar",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "5.. Kol",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 80
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Sonthal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 21st December, 2019 [bh652]",
        "Act Number": "(Bihar Act 14 of 1949)",
        "Enactment Date": "1st April, 1949",
        "Act Year": "1949",
        "Short Title": "Santhal Parganas Tenancy (Supplementary Provisions) Act, 1949",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Bihar"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}