(1) The authorised officer shall distribute possession of the land, the possession of which he has taken under section 32, to the landless persons preferably persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes or to persons holding land below the cultivating tenant’s ceiling area.
+ Amended as per the Puducherry Land Reforms (Amendment) Regulation, 1977 w.e.f 28.02.77.
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(2) (a) The distribution under sub-section (1) shall be in accordance with such rules as may be made under this Act and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.
(b) The rules made under clause (a) may also provide for the manner of recovery of any amount due to the Government from, and the manner of evicting, the person to whom such distribution is made.
* [Power of the Government to reserve land for other public purposes 34-A. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 34, the Government may, if it considered necessary that any surplus land, the possession of which the authorised officer has taken under section 32, is required for any public purpose, reserve such land for such purpose.]
Authorised officer empowered to summarily dispossess persons in certain cases
35. The authorised officer may summarily dispossess:-
(i) any person to whom any land has been distributed under section 34, if such person fails to comply with the conditions subject to which the distribution was made, or contravenes any rule made under this Chapter:
(ii) any other person occupying such land except in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter or the rules made thereunder.
Amount payable to tenants in certain cases