The Maharashtra Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 67 of 1948
[CHAPTER VI
[PROCEDURE AND JURISDICTION OF TRIBUNAL, MAMLATDAR AND COLLECTOR; APPEALS AND REVISION.]
[67. Tribunal.- (1) For the purposes of this Act, there shall be a Tribunal, called the Agricultural Lands Tribunal for each taluka or mahal or for such area as the State Government may think fit :
[Provided that it shall be lawful for the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, from time to time to alter the local limits of the jurisdiction of the Tribunal or to abolish the Tribunal so constituted or reconstitute the Tribunal for such area as may be specified in the notification; and in any case, to arrange for transfer of proceeding pending before any Tribunal on the date of such alteration or reconstitution.]
(2) The State Government may appoint an officer not below the rank of a Mamlatdar to be the Tribunal and to exercise the powers and perform the duties and functions of the Tribunal under this Act in taluka or mahal or any other area referred to in sub-section (1) :
Provided that the State Government may for any area constitute a Tribunal consisting of not less than three members of whom-
(a) at least one shall be a person who is holding or has held a judicial office not lower in rank than that of a civil judge under the Bombay Civil Courts Act, 1869, or who is qualified to practise as a lawyer in the State of [Maharashtra], and
(b) one shall be appointed to be the President of the Tribunal;
and the Tribunal so constituted shall exercise the powers and perform the duties and functions of the Tribunal under this Act.
Explanation.- In this section 'lawyer' means any person entitled to appear and plead for another in Court in the [Bombay area of the State of Maharashtra] and includes an advocate, a vakil and an attorney of the [High Court of Maharashtra]. ]
Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.
substituted, Mah. 39 of 1964. This heading was substituted for the heading "Procedure and Jurisdiction of Tribunal and Mamlatdars : appeals" by Mah. 39 of 1964, s. 2, Schedule.
substituted, Bom. 63 of 1958. Section 67 was substituted for the original by Bom. 63 of 1958, s. 8.
added, Mah. 8 of 1963. This proviso was added by Mah. 8 of 1963, s. 6. Section 10 of Mah. 8 of 1963 reads as under :- "10.Validation of things done and action taken.- The amendments made to the principal Act by section 6 shall be deemed to have been made and to have come into force on the 11th day of July 1958; and notwithstanding the Judgegment, decree or order of any Court or Tribunal, anything done or any action tak…
substituted. These words were substituted for the words "State of Bombay" by the Maharashtra Adaptation Laws (State and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1960.
substituted. These words were substituted for the words "Pre-Reorganisation State of Bombay, excluding the transferred territories.," ibid.
substituted. These words were substituted for words "High Court of Bombay", ibid.
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