(1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the State Government may by order, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, remove the difficulty:
Provided that no such order shall be made for the removal of any difficulty which arises in giving effect to any of the provisions of this Act which apply to the Tribunal after the expiry of a period of three years from the date appointed under section 6.
(2) Any order made- by the State Government under sub-section (1) shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the State Legislature.
22. Where an Authority or the State Government disposes of a case or proceeding before the date appointed under section 6 and no appeal or application against the order of such disposal has been filed to the High Court or any other court, an appeal or application against such order shall lie to the Tribunal within sixty days from the date appointed under section 6:
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XXV of 1997.)
(Chapter III.—Miscellaneous.—Sections 23-25.)
Provided that the right of such appeal or application against such order subsists on the date immediately preceding the date appointed under section 6.
23. The Tribunal may, at any stage of a proceeding or trial under this Appoint- Act, appoint any officer of the State Government to ascertain facts in ment of officers of regard to all or any of the following matters:— State Government
(1) area or boundary of a land; by Tribunal to ascertain
(2) character and classification of a land; facts in regard to certain
(3) crop grown on a land; matters.
(4) use of a land;
(5) enjoyment of easement upon, over or from a land;
(6) person or persons cultivating a land;
(7) mode of cultivation of land;
(8) whether a land is cultivated by a bargadar or otherwise;
(9) if a land is irrigated or not;
(10) person or persons enjoying the usufruct of a land;
(11) number of members of a family in relation to a raiyat as defined in a specified Act;
(12) such other matter as the Tribunal may deem fit.
West Ben.
Act XII of
1991.
24. Every fact ascertained under section 23 in a proceeding or trial Facts to be evidence in, shall be evidence in, and shall form part of the record of, such proceeding and to form or trial. part of record of, proceeding or trial.
25. The West Bengal Land Reforms Tribunal Act, 1991, is hereby Repeal.
repealed.
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