The Assam Consolidation of Holdings (Amendment) Act, 1966
T he 8th J uly 1966

No.LJL.9J65J22.- T he following Act of the Assam Legislative Assembly
which received the assent of the President is hereby published for general

information.

ASSAM ACT XXI OF 1966

(Received the assent of the President on the 1st J uly, 196~

##### THE ASSAM CONSO LIDATION OF HOLDINGS (A.\1ENDMENT)

ACT, 1966.

[ Published in the _Assam Gazette,_ Extraordinary, dated the 9th J uly 1966]

An

Act

##### to amend the Assam Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1960.

Prcamule, Whereas it is expedient to amend the Assam Conso- Assam Act

Iidation of Holdings Act, 1960, hereinafter called the X I X of
1961.
principal Act, in the manner hereinafter appearin g;

#### It is hereby enacted in the Seventeenth Year of the
Republic of Indi a as follows :-


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Short title 1. (1) This Act may be called the Assam Consolida-
and extent. tion of Holdings (Arnend rnent) Act, 1966.

(2) It shall have the like extent as the principal
Act.

Retrospee- 2. The amendments made by this Act shall be deemed
tive 0fer~- and always to have been deemed to have formed part
tion 0 t e of the principal Act, as if the principal Act had been
Act.
enacted as so amended with effect from the date the
assent to the principal Act was first published in the
Official Gazette.
Am e nd-
ment of Sec- 3. In Section 3 of the principal Act :-
tion 3 of
Assam Act
XIX of 1961.

(1) the )irst proviso shall be deleted ;

(2) in the second proviso, the word "further"

occurring between the words "Provided" and "that"
shall be deleted.

Am e nd-
ment of SeC. 4. In Section 5 of the principal Act :-
tion 5 of

~ssam Act
XIX of 1961.

(I) the second proviso to clause (a) shall be
deleted;

(2) after clause (a), the following shall he inserted
as clause (aa), namely:-

"(a'l) setting apart of land, where necessary,
for public purposes, which shall
include roads or village paths, play
grounds, schools, burial and cremation
grounds, grazing grounds, village
tanks and wells; ..

(3) after clause (d), the following shall be inserted
as clause (dd), namely:-

"(dd) wherever Co-operative Farming Societies
are started the land pooled into the,

society shall, as far as practicable, be
consolidated into one or two compact
blocks ;"

Amendment 5. Til Section 6 of the principal Act:-
of Section 6
of Assam

Act XIX of
J961. '


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(1) the bracket and figure "(l)" occu rring after

the figure "6" at the beginning of th e first
sentence shall be deleted ;

### • (2) in clause (b), between the words "plots

therein," and "as" , the words "including
the setting apart of land for the purposes
referred to in clause (aa) of Section 5,"

shall be inserted ;

(3) the existing item (iii) of clause (c) shall be
renumbered as item (iv) and the following
shall be inserted as item (iii), namely:-

"(iii) the amount of compensation, if any,
which in the opinion of the Consolida-
tion Officer, is payable to or by a

person ;"

Insertion of 6. After Section 12 of the principal Act, the

~ecti on 12A following shall be inserted as Section l 2A, namely r-s-
In Assam .

Act X IX of
1961.

" Reserva- 12A. (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary

ti on of lan d

in any law for the time being in force or

for public
purposes. any custom, or any agreement or con-

tract, expressed or implied, it shall be

lawful for the Consolidation Officer,

in consultation with th e Consolidation
Advisory Com mittee constituted under

Section 4, to do the following, namely:-
(a) to direct that any land specifically reserved

for any public purpose shall cease to

be so reserved and to assign any other
land in lieu thereof ;
(b) if in any area for which a scheme is
un der preparation, any land is reserved
for any public purpose including exten-
sion of village sites, or if the land so
reserved is considered inadequate; to


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assign any other land for such purpose
and to effect a proportionate reduction
of the area of all holdings of the village!
villages for the benefit of which such

reservation has been made.

(2) Where a proportionate reduction in area in
all the holdings of a village has been effected                -
under sub-section (1), the State Govern ment shall pay
to every person affected thereby compensation in
respect of the land covered by such reduction at
the market value of the land at the date of the
publication of the notificati on under Section 3,"

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U. TAHBILDAR,

Dy. Secy. to the Govt, of Assam,
Law Department.


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