{
    "id": 3992,
    "slug": "the-madhya-pradesh-ceiling-on-agricultural-holdings-validation-adhiniyam-1982",
    "title": "THE MADHYA PRADESH CEILING ON AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS (VALIDATION) ADHINIYAM, 1982",
    "short_title": "The Madhya Pradesh Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings (Validation) Adhiniyam, 1982",
    "act_number": "12",
    "act_year": 1983,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Chhattisgarh",
    "law_status": "valid",
    "enactment_date": "1983-02-19",
    "description": "The Madhya Pradesh Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings (Validation) Adhiniyam, 1982",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "An ACT",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "The M.P. Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings (Validation) Adhiniyam, 1982\nNo. 12 of 1983\nmp124\nReceived the assent of the Governor on the 19th February, 1983 assent first published in the Madhya Pradesh Gazette (Extraordinary) dated the 19th February, 1983.\nAn Act to validate certain appointments made and proceedings taken under the Madhya Pradesh Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960.\nBe it enacted by the Madhya Pradesh Legislature in the Thirty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1. Short title",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1. Short title. This Act may be called The Madhya Pradesh Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings (Validation) Adhiniyam, 1982.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Validation of appointment of Additional Settlement Commissioner.-",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "2. Validation of appointment of Additional Settlement Commissioner.- All persons whose names are specified in column (3) and (4) thereof, as competent authority shall, notwithstanding the fact that their appointment as competent authority was not made in accordance with sub-clause (iii) of clause (e) of Section 2 of the Madhya Pradesh Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960 (No. 20 of 1960) be and shall be deemed always to have been validly appointed and continued as competent authority within the meaning of sub-clause (iii) of clause (c) of the said section on the dates on which they passed the said orders.",
            "footnote": "20 of 1960",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3. Validation.-",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "3. Validation.- Notwithstanding anything contained in any judgement decree or order of a Court all things done, proceedings and actions taken and order passed by the competent authority to whom Section 2 applies shall be and shall be deemed always to have been validly done taken or passed as if the said persons were validly appointed as competent authority under sub-clause (iii) of clause (e) of Section 2 of the Madhya Pradesh Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960 (No. 20 of 1960) before such things were done, proceedings and actions were taken and orders were passed and the validity of any such thing, proceeding, action or order shall not be called into question in any Court of law or before any other authority whatsoever merely n the ground that their appointment was not made in accordance with the provisions of sub-clause (iii) of clause (c) of Section 2 of the said Act.",
            "footnote": "20 of 1960",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "198312",
        "Act Number": "12",
        "Enactment Date": "1983-02-19",
        "Act Year": "1983",
        "Short Title": "The Madhya Pradesh Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings (Validation) Adhiniyam, 1982",
        "Department": "Law and Legislative Affairs Department",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Madhya Pradesh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:17"
}