The Assam Non-Agricultural Urban Areas Tenancy (Amendment) Act, 1968
Registered No.A-12

# Gazette

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## EXTRAORDINARY

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##### No.61, Shillong, Saturday, June 22, 1968, 1st Asadha, 1890 (S.Bk)

#### GOVERNMENT OF ASSAM

##### ORDERS BY THE GOVERNOR

LAW DEPARTMENT

NOTIFICATION

The 21st Jun 19 63

##### No.LJL. 15/68/4 . —The following Act of the Assam Legislative Assembly

which received the assent of the Governor is hereby published for general
information.

ASSAM ACT XVI OF 1968

##### (Received the assent of the Governor on the 20th June, 1968)

THE ASSAM NON-AGRICULTURAL URBAN AREAS TENANCY

(AMENDMENT) ACT, 1968

[ Published in the _Assam Gazette Extraordinary, dated the 22nd June 1968 ]_

##### An
 Act

 further to amend the Assam Non "Agricultural Urban Areas
 Tenancy Act, 1955.

Preamble, Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Assam

Non-Agricultural Urban Areas Tenancy Act, 1955
hereinafter called the principal Act, in the manner
hereinafter appearing ;

It is hereby enacted in the Nineteenth Year of the

Republic of India as follows:—

Short title, 1. (1) This Act may be called the Assam Non-
extent and Agricultural Urban Areas Tenancy
commence­

ment. (Amendment) Act, 1968.-


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(2) It shall have the like extent as the princi­

pal Act.

(3) It shall come into force at once.

Amendment 2. In section 5 of the principal Act, in sub-section

of section 5 (■jx a t t fie e n j o f clause (a), the following provisos shall

Ac?XH of be added, nam ely;-
1955«

‘‘Provided that whe_e .a .tenant- having built a

permanent structure -within the period specified above
and for anv of the purposes mentioned therein, renews
the tenancy on expiration of the original contract, he
shall always be deemed'to have built such permanent
structure within the period of five years from the date
of the renewed contract:

Provided further that a .person having a right, title

and interest over a permanent structure by whatever
mode of acquisition he may have taken the tenancy
from the landlord of the land wherein the said
structure stands, shall not be ejected except on the
ground of non-payment of rent.’"

Amendment 3. In section 7 of the principal Act, in clause (b)

of section 7 fo r t b e w o r ds .“ three annas’[1], occurring between the

_A t_ xTT[a] »f words “ than [5]' and “in” the words “nineteen parse”
1955. 1 shall be substituted.

Amendment 4. In section 9 of the principal Act, in the proviso,

of section 9 in clause (a) for the words “ three annas” occurring
of Assam between the words “ than’’ and “in” the words

XII of ‘<n [i]n e [jeen paisc ’]* shall be substituted.

B. SARMA,

'Secy, to the Government of Assam,

Law Department.

Shillong—-Printed and published by the Superintendent ^ sam

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