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THE ASSAM DADANS ACT, 1944
The Assam Dadans Act, 1944
Sections
An ACT
Section 1Section 1(1)
Section 1Section 1(2)
Section 1Section 1(3)
Section 1Proviso to Section 1(3)
Section 1Section 2(a)
Section 2Explanation to Section 2(a)
Section 2Section 2(b)
Section 2Section 2(c)
Section 2Explanation to Section 2(c)
Section 2Section 2(d)
Section 2Section 2(e)
Section 2Section 2(f)
Section 2Section 2(g)
Section 2Section 2(h)
Section 2Section 2(i)
Section 2Section 3
Section 3Section 4
Section 4Section 5
Section 5Section 6
Section 6Explanation to Sections 4, 5 and 6
Section 21Section 7(1)
Section 7Section 7(2)
Section 7Section 8
Section 8Proviso to Section 8(b)
Section 8Section 8(c)
Section 8Section 9(1)
Section 9Proviso to Section 9(1)
Section 9Explanation to Section 9(1)
Section 9Section 9(2)
Section 9Section 9(3)
Section 9Section 10(1)
Section 10Section 10(2)
Section 10Section 11
Section 11Section 12
Section 12Section 13
Section 13Section 14
Section 14Section 15
Section 15Schedule - THE FIRST SCHEDULE
Section 39Schedule - THE SECOND SCHEDULE
Section 40
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"content": "An Act to gather information about, and settle claims in respect of, dadans or advances to cultivators on crops\nWHEREAS it is expedient to provide by law that information be furnished to Government in respect of certain advances made to cultivators and receivers of rent in kind, and for the method of disbursement of the price of certain food-grains purchased or requisitioned from such persons;\nIt is hereby enacted as follows:-",
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"content": "1. (1) This Act may be called the Assam Dadans Act, 1944.",
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"content": "(2) It extends to the whole of Assam, and, save as provided in section 3, shall come into force at once.",
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"content": "(3) It shall remain in force for two years;",
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"content": "Provided that the Provincial Government may, with the approval of the Legislature, by notification in the official Gazette, extend its duration from time to time, for a period not exceeding one year on each occasion.",
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"content": "2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-\n(a) \"cultivator\" means a person who has land which he cultivates either himself or through labourers.",
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"content": "Explanation. A person who has a share in land which he cultivates either himself or through labourers is a cultivator within the above definition.",
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"content": "(b) \"dadan\" means any sum of money advanced under an agreement, in writing or as customary between the parties that such sum of money will be repaid by delivery of food-grains or adjusted against the price of food-grains to be delivered later.",
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"number": "2",
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"content": "(c) \"Deputy Commissioner\" means the Deputy Commissioner of the district in which a cultivator or receiver of rent in kind has his land.",
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"title": "Explanation to Section 2(c)",
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"content": "Explanation. For the purposes of this Act, Deputy Commissioner shall also mean and include the Subdivisional Officer, where there is a Subdivisional Officer.",
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"number": "2",
"title": "Section 2(d)",
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"content": "(d) \"food-grain licensee\" means a person in whose favour a licence issued under the Food-Grains Control Order, 1942 is in force.",
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"number": "2",
"title": "Section 2(e)",
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"content": "(e) \"food-grains\" means any of the food-grains specified in the First Schedule to this Act.",
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"number": "2",
"title": "Section 2(f)",
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"content": "(f) \"land\" means agricultural land.",
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"number": "2",
"title": "Section 2(g)",
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"content": "(g) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.",
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"number": "2",
"title": "Section 2(h)",
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"content": "(h) \"receiver of rent in kind\" means a person who, having let out to one or more persons land or a share in land for which rent in kind is payable to him, either has or may reasonably expect to have as such rent not less than one hundred maunds of food-grains in one year.",
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"title": "Section 2(i)",
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"content": "(i) \"rent in kind\" means rent payable in food-grains.",
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"title": "Section 3",
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"content": "3. The provision of this Act shall not apply to food-grains other than rice in the husk and rice husked unless the Provincial Government, by notification in the official Gazette, extends its application to other food-grains.",
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"title": "Section 4",
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"content": "4. Every person who, being a food-grain licensee, or a money-lender registered under the Assam Money-Lenders Act, 1934 (Assam Act IV of 1934), has given any dádan to a cultivator or receiver of rent in kind shall, if such dádan was given before the date on which this Act comes into force, within one month from such date, and, where such dádan has been given after the date on which this Act comes into force, within ten days from the date on which it is given, furnish, in Form No.1 in the Second Schedule to this Act, the information therein required.",
"footnote": "Assam Act IV of 1934",
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"number": "5",
"title": "Section 5",
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"content": "5. The Deputy Commissioner shall, by publication of notice in such manner as he may determine (which notice need not be personally served on any person), require persons other than food-grain licensees or money-lenders registered under the Assam Money-Lenders' Act, 1934 (Assam Act IV of 1934), who have given dádan to a cultivator or receiver of rent in kind whether before or since the commencement of this Act, to furnish within such time as he may by such notice appoint, in Form No.1 in the Second Schedule to this Act, the information therein required.",
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"number": "6",
"title": "Section 6",
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"content": "6. Every person who, being a cultivator or a receiver of rent in kind, has received any dádan from any food-grain licensee or a money-lender registered under the Assam Money-Lenders' Act, 1934 (Assam Act IV of 1934), or other person, shall, if such dádan was received before the date on which this Act comes into force, within one month from such date, and, where such dádan has been received after the date on which this Act comes into force, within ten days from the date on which it is received, furnish in Form No. 2 in the Second Schedule to this Act, the information therein required.",
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"title": "Explanation to Sections 4, 5 and 6",
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"content": "Explanation. For the purposes of sections 4, 5 and 6, any money paid as consideration for the transfer of land or of any interest in land shall be deemed to be a dádan, where the transferor, being a cultivator or receiver of rent in kind, has remained in possession of the land.",
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"number": "7",
"title": "Section 7(1)",
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"content": "7. (1) Any statement required by this Act to be furnished by any person shall be furnished to such officer as may be prescribed, and, subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), a statement furnished after the expiry of the time within which it is due shall be rejected.",
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"number": "7",
"title": "Section 7(2)",
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"content": "(2) Where any such statement is furnished after the expiry of the time within which it is due, such officer may nevertheless accept it if he is satisfied that the default was not wilful or that it has been sufficiently explained, and his orders in this behalf shall be final.",
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"number": "8",
"title": "Section 8",
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"content": "8. The price of any food-grains purchased from a cultivator or a receiver of rent in kind by the Provincial Government either through its officers or through agents appointed for the purpose, as well as of any food-grains requisitioned from such persons by the Provincial Government under any provision of the the Defence of India Rules, shall, where the food-grains are encumbered by any dådan be disbursed in the following manner:-\n(a) One-half of the price shall, upon delivery of the food-grains, be paid to the cultivator or the receiver of rent in kind from whom it is purchased or requisitioned.\n(b) Out of the remaining half of the price, all persons who have any claim against the cultivator or the receiver of rent in kind on account of any dådan shall be reimbursed to the extent of the amount advanced, and, where the surplus is not sufficient for the purpose of such reimbursement, it shall be rateably distributed amongst the claimants if more than one in number:",
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"number": "8",
"title": "Proviso to Section 8(b)",
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"content": "Provided that no portion of the surplus shall be paid to any person who, being liable to furnish a statement under the provisions of section 4 or section 5, has failed to furnish such statement.",
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"number": "8",
"title": "Section 8(c)",
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"content": "(c) The balance, if any, after all such disbursements shall be paid to the cultivator or receiver of rent in kind from whom the food-grains are purchased or requisitioned.",
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"number": "9",
"title": "Section 9(1)",
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"content": "9. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 8, any person claiming the surplus or any portion thereof, as well as any person disputing such claim, may, within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed, apply for the appointment of a Board of Arbitrators;",
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"number": "9",
"title": "Proviso to Section 9(1)",
"chapter": null,
"content": "Provided that no such application shall be entertained from any person who, being liable to furnish a statement under the provisions of section 4, section 5, or section 6, has failed to furnish such statement.",
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"number": "9",
"title": "Explanation to Section 9(1)",
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"content": "Explanation. For the purposes of this sub-section and of section 8, any person whose statement has been rejected under section 7 shall be deemed to have failed to furnish such statement.",
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"number": "9",
"title": "Section 9(2)",
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"content": "(2) On such application being made, the surplus shall not be disbursed, and a Board of Arbitrators shall be appointed and shall function in the manner prescribed.",
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"number": "9",
"title": "Section 9(3)",
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"content": "(3) Subject to the provisions of section 10, the decision of the Board of Arbitrators shall be final and conclusive between the parties, and the surplus shall, upon such decision being made, be disbursed in accordance therewith.",
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{
"number": "10",
"title": "Section 10(1)",
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"content": "10. (1) An appeal, if filed within the prescribed period and in the prescribed manner, shall lie against the decision of the Board of Arbitrators-\n(a) to the Deputy Commissioner, where the amount of the surplus exceeds one thousand but does not exceed two thousand rupees, and\n(b) to the Commissioner of Divisions, where the amount of the surplus exceeds two thousand rupees.",
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{
"number": "10",
"title": "Section 10(2)",
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"content": "(2) The appellate authority may pass such orders on the appeal as he thinks fit; and such orders shall be final and conclusive between the parties.",
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"number": "11",
"title": "Section 11",
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"content": "11. Whoever, being liable to furnish a statement under section 4 or section 5, has wilfully failed within the time therein laid down to furnish such statement, shall be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.",
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{
"number": "12",
"title": "Section 12",
"chapter": null,
"content": "12. Whoever furnishes a statement as required by section 4, section 5, or section 6, which he knows or has reason to believe to be false, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.",
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{
"number": "13",
"title": "Section 13",
"chapter": null,
"content": "13. The Provincial Government may make rules for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.",
"footnote": "",
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"sort_order": 350
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{
"number": "14",
"title": "Section 14",
"chapter": null,
"content": "14. No civil court shall during the period for which this Act is in force entertain any suit-\n(a) against the Provincial Government or their agents or against a cultivator or a receiver of rent in kind, for any claim in respect of the disbursement of the price of food-grains under section 8, or for any damages resulting from such disbursement, or for the recovery of any dádan; or\n(b) questioning the decision of any Board of Arbitrators appointed under this Act or any orders passed on appeal from such decision.",
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},
{
"number": "15",
"title": "Section 15",
"chapter": null,
"content": "15. No court shall take cognizance of an offence under this Act except on a complaint in writing made by the Deputy Commissioner.",
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"sort_order": 370
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{
"number": "39",
"title": "Schedule - THE FIRST SCHEDULE",
"chapter": null,
"content": "1. Rice in the husk (paddy)\n2. Rice husked\n3. Arhar\n4. Masuri\n5. Matikalai\n6. Mustard seed",
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{
"number": "40",
"title": "Schedule - THE SECOND SCHEDULE",
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"content": "FORM No.1\r\nTo whom advanced | Food-grains to be delivered | Amount advanced | Remarks\r\nNo. | Name | Address | Name | Quantity | Rs. a. p. | \r\n\r\nI ...... son of ...... of ...... (village) ...... P. S. declare that the above is a true and complete statement of all advances made by me.\r\nDate ...... Signature (or thumb impression).\r\n\r\nFORM NO.2\r\nBy whom advanced | Amount advanced | Food-grains to be delivered | Remarks\r\nNo. | Name | Address | Rs. a. p. | Name | Quantity | \r\n\r\nI ...... son of ...... of ...... (village) ...... P. S. declare that the above is a true and complete statement of all advances received by me.\r\nDate ...... Signature (or thumb impression)",
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"metadata": {
"Act ID": "194407",
"Act Number": "7",
"Enactment Date": "1944-04-08",
"Act Year": "1944",
"Short Title": "The Assam Dadans Act, 1944",
"Department": "Assam Legislature",
"Type": "STATE",
"Location": "Assam"
},
"updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:17"
}