(1) This Act may be called the 2a[Gujarat] Land Improvement Schemes Act, 1942.
3[(2) It shall extend to the whole of the 4[State of Gujarat.]
(3) It shall come into force in such area and on such date as the 5[State] Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct :
6[Provided that on the commencement of the Bombay Land Improvement Schemes (Extension and Amendment) Act, 1958, it shall come into force at once in those areas in which 7[ * * * ** * ] the Saurashtra Land Improvement Schemes Act, 1954 was in force immediately before such commencement.]
2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-
(1) "Board" means a Board constituted under section 3;
8[(1A) "Collector" includes a Deputy Commissioner;]
9[(1B) "Company" means the Gujarat State Land Development Corporation Limited, and any other company owned or controlled by the State, the purpose of which is execution or financing or both execution and financing of the schemes under this Act;
26 Geo. 5 ch. 2.
Short title, extent and commenceme nt.
Bom. XXX of 1958.
Sau. Act No. XIX Of 1954.
Definitions.
Gujarat Land Improvement Schemes Act, 1942.
5 of 18 (1C) "Company Officer" means any officer of the Company duly appointed by it for all or any of the purposes of this Act;]
10[(2) "Director of Agriculture" means the officer appointed for the time being to be the Director of Agriculture and includes any officer appointed by the 11[State] Government to perform the duties of the Director of Agriculture under this Act;
(2A) "Divisional Soil Conservation Officer" means the officer appointed for the time being to be the Divisional Soil Conservation Officer 12[and includes any other officer authorised by the State Government to exercise the powers and perform the duties of a Divisional Soil Conservation Officer under this Act];
(2B) "District Agricultural Officer" means the officer appointed for the time being to be the District Agricultural Officer;]
13[(2C) "Executing Officer" means an officer appointed by the Board or the Company under sub-section (1) of section 11 and shall be construed according as the schemes are executed at the expense of the State Government or the Company;]
(3) "Inquiry Officer" means an officer appointed as such by the Board;
14[(4) 'Owner' includes an owner in severalty, in common or joint, an occupant, a tenure holder, pattadar, tenant, and a mortgagee in possession and the expressions 'owning' and 'own' shall be construed accordingly;]
(5) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
15[16[(5A) "Code" means the Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879;]
(5B) "relevant tenancy law" means-
(i) in the pre-reorganisation State of Bombay, excluding the transferred territories, the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act,1948; 17[ * * * * * ** * * * * * ]
(iv) in the Saurashtra Area of the State of Bombay, the Saurashtra Prohibition of Leases of Agricultural Lands Act, 1953 and the Saurashtra Gharkhed, Tenancy Settlement and Agricultural Lands Ordinance, 1949; and
(v) in the Kutch Area of the State of Bombay, the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 as extended to that area;]
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(7) "Scheme" means a land improvement scheme prepared under this Act;
19[(7A) "Soil Conservation Officer" means the officer appointed for the time being to be the Soil Conservation Officer ;]
20[(7B) 'tenant' means a tenant within the meaning of the relevant tenancy law;]
(8) the words and expressions used in this Act, but not defined, shall have the meaning assigned to them in 21[the Code.]
CHAPTER II.
CONSTITUTION OF BOARDS AND PREPARATION OF LAND IMPROVEMENT SCHEMES.
3. 22[(1) The 23[State] Government shall constitute in each district a Board consisting of the Collector, the District Agricultural Officer, the Divisional Soil Conservation Bom. V of 1879.
Bom. LXV-II of 1948.
Sau. Act No.
XXIII of 1953.
Sau. Ordi. No.
LVI of 1949.
Constitution of Boards.
Gujarat Land Improvement Schemes Act, 1942.
6 of 18 Officer and such non-official persons not exceeding two as may be appointed by the 23[State] Government.
(1A) The Divisional Soil Conservation Officer shall be the Secretary of the Board.]
(2) If there is a difference of opinion among the members of the Board regarding any question under the provisions of this Act, the decision of the majority of the members shall prevail.