(1) During the continuance of the consolidation proceedings the Consolidation Officer shall exercise and discharge the functions of a revenue officer under Chapter IX of the Bombay Land Revenue Code,
1879.
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the Mamlatdar’s Courts Act, 1906, and the 68[relevant tenancy law]; and no revenue officer other than the Consolidation Officer shall take any proceedings under any of the said Acts in respect of any holding or land for the consolidation of which a notification has been issued under section 15.
(2) Where in respect of any holding the Consolidation Officer proceeds to prepare a scheme under section 15-
(a) all applications and proceedings including execution proceedings pending before any revenue officer under Chapter IX of the Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879, 67[* * * * *], the Mamlatdar’s Courts Act, 1906, and the 68[relevant tenancy law], in respect of any holding or land for the consolidation of which a notification has been issued under section 15 shall be transferred to the Consolidation Officer; and
(b) the Consolidations Officer shall, by proclamation, call upon all persons who claim to be entitled to possession under any of the said Acts of any holding for the consolidation or which a notification has been issued under section 15 to make within the prescribed period an application to be put in possession of such holdings; and any person who fails to so within the prescribed period shall thereafter be debarred from making it :
Provided that nothing in this clause shall debar any persons from making, after the coming into force of a scheme of consolidation under section 22, any application in respect of any holding included in the scheme, if such application could lie under the provisions of any law for the time being in force.
(3) The Consolidation Officer shall submit any order passed by him under any of the said Acts to the Collector for confirmation if an application in that behalf is made to him by any party to a proceeding under this section within fifteen days from the date of the order.
Loans to assist consolidation.
XIX of
1883.
XII of
1884.
Bom. V of
1879.
Bom. II of 1906 Exercise by Consolidation officer of powers under certain Acts.
Bom. II of
1906.
Bom. V of
1906.
Bomm. II of
1906.
Bombay Prevention of Fragmentation and Consolidation of Holdings Act,1947 [1947 : Bom .LXII
27. When a Consolidation Officer proceeds to prepare a scheme under section 15, during the continuance of the consolidation proceedings- 70[(a) no proceedings,-
(i) under section 153 or 155 of the Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879;
71[* * *] 72[(ii) for execution of any award made or deemed to be made under the Bombay Co-operative Societies Act, 1925];
(iii) for execution of any award made under the Bombay Agricultural Debtors’ Relief Act, 1947; 73[or under the Saurashtra Agricultural Debtor’s Relief Act, 1954 ];
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(iv) for execution of any decree passed by a Civil Courts in respect of any land in respect of which a notification has been issued under section 15 shall be commenced, and all such proceedings if commenced shall be stayed];
75[(v) for partitioning or sub-dividing in any manner; ] 76[(b) no person shall transfer any land in respect of which a notice has been given under sub-section (1) of section 15A to the land owner concerned, except with the previous permission in writing given by the Consolidation Officer in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.]
28. Every owner to whom a holding is allotted in pursuance of a scheme of consolidation shall 77[save as otherwise provided in section 29A], have the same rights in such holding as he had in his original holding :
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any person to whom a holding has been allotted under the provisions of sub-section (4) of section 21.