The Bihar Displaced Persons Rehabilitation (Acquisition of Land) Act, 1950

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    "title": "The Bihar Displaced Persons Rehabilitation (Acquisition of Land) Act, 1950",
    "short_title": "The Bihar Displaced Persons Rehabilitation (Acquisition of Land) Act, 1950",
    "act_number": "Bihar Act 38 of 1950",
    "act_year": 1950,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Bihar Displaced Persons Rehabilitation (Acquisition of Land) Act, 1950",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"competent authority\" means the Collector and includes any person appointed or empowered by the State Government, by notification, to perform all or any of the functions of a competent authority under this Act;\n(b) \"displaced person\" means a person displaced from the territories now comprised in Pakistan, who is, for the time being resident in the State of Bihar and-\n(i) who has been registered under section 4 of the Bihar Refugees Registration and Movement Ordinance, 1948; or\n(ii) who in the opinion of the State Government, or of such authority as may be prescribed from time to time by the State Government, has migrated from Pakistan after the first day of March 1947;\n(c) \"land\" means land lying fallow and in which no crops have been raised for a continuous period of three years immediately preceding the 31st December, 1949, and includes benefits arising out of, and things attached or permanently fastened to anything attached to, the land; and\n(d) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by Rules made under this Act.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Notice of acquisition of land.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Service of notice on owner or occupier of land affected by notice of acquisition.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Vesting and taking possession of land.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Completion of acquisition not compulsory, but compensation to be awarded for damage suffered by the owner in consequence of the notification of acquisition.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Method of determining compensation.",
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            "content": "(a) where the amount of compensation can be fixed by agreement, it shall be paid in accordance with such agreement;\n(b) where no such agreement can be reached-\n(i) the State Government shall appoint as arbitrator a person qualified for appointment as a Subordinate Judge or an Additional District Magistrate; and it may, in any particular case, nominate a person having expert, knowledge as to the nature and condition of the land acquired to assist the arbitrator and, where such nomination is made, the person to be compensated may also nominate an assessor for the said purpose;\n(ii) at the commencement of the proceedings before the arbitrator, the State Government and the person to be compensated shall state what, in their respective opinions, is a fair amount of compensation;\n(iii) the arbitrator, in making his award, shall take into consideration the provisions of Section 23 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894:",
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Payment of compensation.",
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        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Power to secure information.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Penalty.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "11. Application of Section 51 of Act I of 1894.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Bar of legal proceedings.",
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        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Savings as to orders.",
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        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Power to make Rules.",
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            "content": "(a) the procedure to be followed in arbitration under this Act;\n(b) the principles to be followed in apportioning the costs of proceedings before the arbitrator and on appeal;\n(c) the principles to be followed in determining the mode fixing and the mode of payment of compensation as respects different classes of or different descriptions of interests held in lands; and\n(d) the manner in which deduced rent in respect of non-saleable lands is to be calculated and what multiple of such deduced rent shall be the market value of such lands.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "bh184",
        "Act Number": "Bihar Act 38 of 1950",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1950",
        "Short Title": "The Bihar Displaced Persons Rehabilitation (Acquisition of Land) Act, 1950",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Bihar"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}