(1) The Bhoodan Board may for any Sub-division constitute Sub-divisional Bhoodan Committee consisting of not more than seven members who shall be appointed by the Bhoodan Board from among the Bhoodan workers who are resident in the area concerned . The appointment of these members shall be subject to the approval of the Government and shall be for a period of three years.
(2) The Bhoodan Board shall appoint one of the members of the Subdivisional Committee to be its Chairman who shall also act as its Secretary.
(3) (a) The Bhoodan Board may authorise any Sub-divisional Committee constituted under sub-section (1) to exercise in the area within the jurisdiction of such Sub-divisional Committee all or any of the powers, duties or functions vested in the Board by this Act as may be specified by general or special order and in like manner withdraw such authority ;
(b) The exercise of any powers, duties or functions delegated under sub-clause (a) shall be subject to control and revision of the Bhoodan Board:
Provided that the dissolution or supersession of the Subdivisional Bhoodan Committees shall be subject to the approval of the State Government.
(4) The provisions of section 8 shall apply mutatis mutandis in matters of supersession or dissolution of the Sub-divisional Bhoodan Committees also.
Funds of the Bhoodan Board.
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(1) The State Bhoodan Board shall have its own fund and may accept grants, donations or gifts from the Central and the State Government or any local authority or any individual or body of persons whether incorporated or not, for all or any of the purposes of this Act.
(2) The moneys remitted in the Fund shall be received by the Chairman of the Bhoodan Board or by the Secretary of the Bhoodan Board if he is authorised by the Chairman in this behalf and all such money shall be deposited by the recipient in : -
(i) the Assam Co-operative Apex Bank Limited, or 8
(ii) a post office Savings Bank.
(3) All such deposits shall be made in the name of the Bhoodan Board. The Chairman of the Bhoodan Board or the Secretary appointed by the Chairman in this behalf, shall have the power to withdraw such deposits or any part thereof and operate on the Bank accounts.
(4) No money shall be withdrawn from the Bank unless it is required for immediate payment for the purposes of the Bhoodan Board.
Audit of the Board's accounts.
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The Bhoodan Board shall cause accounts to be kept of all moneys received and expended by it and such accounts shall be audited every year by auditors appointed by the State Board with the ' previous approval of the Government.
Exemption from attachment or sale and from the operation of the Ceiling Act.
12.
(1) Land which is donated by a person making a Bhoodan declaration shall not, unless it is refused, be liable to attachment or sale in execution of any decree or order passed by a Civil Court against the donor of the Bhoodan Land .
(2) The provisions of the Assam Fixation of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1956 shall not apply in respect of lands donated by way of Bhoodan.
Assam Act I of 1957 Status of the person to whom the land is granted and the condition on which the land is held.
13.
(1) The person to whom any land is granted under sub-section (1) of section 7 shall have,-
(a) Where the interest of the donor was that of a proprietor, land-holder or settlement holder the status of a land-holder,
(b) Where the interest of the donor was that of a tenant having permanent, heritable and transferable right, the status of an occupancy rayat.
(2) The grantee shall hold the land subject to the following conditions, namely:-
(a) the grantee shall not be entitled to transfer or sublet the land or any part thereof ;
(b) the grantee shall not allow the land to lie fallow for two consecutive years without reasonable cause;
(c) a grantee under clause (a) shall pay to the State Government land revenue and other dues, if any, on the land on due dates thereof;
(d) any other condition which may be prescribed by the State Government in consultation with the Bhoodan Board.
(3) The name of the grantee shall in the prescribed manner be mutated immediately after the information of distribution being received from 9 the Bhoodan Board under sub-section (3) of section 7 and recorded in the record-of-rights maintained by the Deputy Commissioner in the Jamabandi or the rent-roll, as the case may be, mentioning the fact that the land is Bhoodan land.
Consequences of the breach of conditions.
14.
If the grantee commits a breach of any of the conditions mentioned in subsection (2) of section 13, the Revenue Officer may, after giving him an opportunity of being heard and after such enquiry as he deems necessary, terminate the grant and restore the land to the Bhoodan Board.
Power to remit land revenue.
15.
The State Government may, if it is satisfied that any land vesting in the Bhoodan Board could not be granted to any person in any year, remit the land revenue due thereon for that year.
Power to exempt from Stamp duty, etc.
16.
The State Government, by notification in the official Gazette, may remit-
(a) the Stamp duty with which, under any law for the time being in force, any declaration of donation under section 3 or any instrument executed by or on behalf of the Bhoodan Board is chargeable ;
(b) any fee payable by the Bhoodan Board or any owner who donates land under section 3 under the law for the time-being in force.
Partition of holding.
17. If the land donated forms a part of a holding, the Bhoodan Board or the grantee concerned may apply to the Revenue Officer for partition and the Revenue Officer may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any law for the time-being in force and after such enquiry as he deems necessary, partition the holding and demarcate the land and apportion the revenue or the rent, as the case may be.
Power to make rules.
18.
(1) The State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers, such rules may provide for-
(a) the matters relating to the establishment and constitution of the State Bhoodan Board and the Sub-divisional Bhoodan Committees, nomination and appointment of Chairman or members thereto, as the case may be ;
(b) incidental and consequential provisions to be followed on the dissolution or supersession of the Bhoodan Board or Sub-divisional Bhoodan Committee ;
(c) the form of declaration of Bhoodan ;
(d) the manner of publication of the Bhoodan declaration ;
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(e) the manner of realisation of the arrear revenue ;
(f) the manner of recording the name of the grantee in the record-ofrights or the rent-rolls under sub-section (3) of the section 13 ;
(g) the manner and mode of service of notices under this Act; and
(h) the matters which are to be and may be prescribed.
(3) Every rule made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the Assam Legislative Assembly while it is in session for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the sessions immediately following the Assam Legislative Assembly agree in making any modification in the rule or the Assam Legislative Assembly agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so however , that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.
Power to make regulations.