(1) This Act may be called the Jaunsar-Bawar Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1956.
(2) It shall extend to the whole of Pargana Jaunsar-Bawar of Dehra Dun District.
(3) This chapter shall come into force at once. The remaining chapters shall come into force on such date or dates as the State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint in this behalf and different dates may be appointed for different chapters of this Act.
Definitions 2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context:-
(a) "Collector" means the Collector of Dehra Dun District and also includes an Assistant Collector of the First Class specially empowered by the State Government by notification in the official Gazette to discharge all or any of the functions of the Collector under this Act;
(b) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Meerut Division and also includes an Additional Commissioner Meerut Division;
1. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Uttar Pradesh Gazette Extraordinary, dated September 28, 1955.
122 [The Jaunsar-Bawar Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1956] [Section 2]
(c) "current settlement" means the settlement of land revenue in force in the Pargana on the date immediately preceding the date of commencement of Chapter I of this Act;
(d) "Tenant" means a person by whom rent is, or but for a contract express or implied would be, payable ;
Explanation-- A person holding land on service tenure is a person by whom rent is payable for the land so held by him.
(e) "intermediary" as respects any land means the zamindar of the land where the land is in the cultivation of a tenant but does not include zamindar of any land referred to in section 34;
(f) "khag" means a sub-division of a khat;
(g) 'khat" means a group of villages, treated at the current settlement as a single unit for assessment of land revenue and recorded as such in the settlement records;
(h) "law" includes any Ordinance, Order, Bye-Law, Rule, Regulation, Notification, Custom or Usage having the force of law in the Pargana, on the date immediately preceding, the date of commencement of Chapter I of this Act;
(i) "Pargana" means the Pargana of Jaunsar-Bawar in the district of Dehra Dun;
(j) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(k) "State Government" means the Government of Uttar Pradesh;
(1) words and expressions "Compensation Officer", "land", "lease";
"legal representative", "proprietor"; "village" and "Gaon Sabha", not herein defined but used in the U. P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950, shall have the same meaning assigned to them in that Act;
(m) words and expressions "grove", "holding", "rent" and "sayar" not herein defined but used in the U. P. Tenancy Act, 1939, shall have the meaning assigned to them in that Act; and
(n) words and expressions "revenue", "Board" and "Tahsildar" not herein defined; but used in the U. P. Land Revenue Act, 1901, shall have the meaning assigned to them in that Act;[* * *] 1
(o) "zamindar" means as respects any land, the proprietor of the land or of a share therein; [and] 2 [(p) references to the Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 and to the U. P. Land Revenue Act, 1901 or to rules framed thereunder shall be construed respectively as references to the said Acts or rules as amended from time to time.]
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1. Omitted by section 38 of U. P. Act No. 12 of 1965.
2. Subs. by section 38 of U. P. Act No. 12 of 1965, 123 [The Jaunsar-Bawar Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1956] [Section 3-6]
CHAPTER II SETTLEMENT Notification as to settlement
3. The State Government may at any time after the commencement of this chapter, declare by notification in the official Gazette that the Pargana or any local area therein, as may be specified, is brought under settlement operations and thereupon the same shall be held to be under settlement and continue to be so until the issue of a second notification by the Sate Government declaring the settlement to be closed.
Appointment and powers of Settlement officers
4. The State Government may for purposes of this Act appoint an officer hereinafter called the settlement officer, to be incharge of the settlement of the Pargana or, as the case may be, of any local area therein and as many Assistant settlement Officers as may be considered necessary.
Inspection and preparation of records