The ASSAM (TEMPORARILY SETTLED AREAS) TENANCY ACT 1971 (SINGLE DOCUMENT)
# ASSAM ACT XXIII OF 1971

 (Received the assent of the President on the 3rd December, 1971)

 THE ASSAM (TEMPORARILY SETTLED AREAS) TENANCY  ACT  1971

 An Act

to regulate the relations of landlord and tenant in the temporarily sett1ed areas of
Assam.

**Preamble.** Whereas it is expedient to regulate the rights and liabilities of

agricultural tenants and their landlords in temporarily settled lands in the
State of Assam ;

It is hereby enacted in the Twenty-second Year of the Republic of

India as follows:

**CHAPTER I**


**Preliminary**


(1) This Act may be called the Assam (Temporarily Settled
Areas) Tenancy Act, 1971.


**Short title,**
**extent and**
**commencement.**


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(2) It shall come into force at once.


(3) It extends to,

(a) the districts of Kamrup, Nowgong, Darrang, Sibsagar and
Lakhimpur ;

(b) Silchar and Hailakandi Subdivisions of the district of
Cachar ; and

(c) temporarily settled areas of Gossaingaon, Sidli and Bijni

Circles of Kokrajhar Subdivision in the district of
Goalpara and the temporarily settled areas of Karimganj
Sub- division.

(4) The State Government may, by notification, extend the

whole or any part of the Act to any other areas of the State :

Provided that no such notification shall be issued unless a

notice of the intended extension is previously published in the area
concerned and any objection received is disposed of after due
consideration.


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The Act does not apply to:

**Exception.**


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(a) land included in any Reserved Forest;

(b) land owned by the Union or the State Government or by
Local authority which is used for any public purposes ;

(c) land reserved for the purpose of professional grazing reserves,
village grazing reserves, recreation grounds, burial or cremation
ground, road, canal, drain, embankment or their maintenance or
for any other public purposes ;

(d) land which is non-agricultural and situated outside town-land
area ;

(e) land comprised within estates settled for special cultivation
when, and only so long as, such lands are used for purposes of
special cultivation or for purposes ancillary thereto.

_Explanation.- (I) This sub-clause includes lands settled for the_
cultivation of tea under the rules in force from time to time such
as fee simple grants, revenue redeemed grants, 36 years' grants
under the New Lease Rules though now assessed with full
revenue and lease for special cultivation under settlement rules
framed from time to time under the Assam Land and Revenue
Regulation, 1886.

(II) Purposes ancillary for special cultivation shall mean the
following:
(i) land used for factory buildings ;

(ii) land used for staff buildings including labour lines ;

(iii) land used for roads, bridges and drains within the tea

estates ;


**I of 1886**


(iv) land used for nurseries including shade trees ;

(v) land used for hospitals, dispensaries, crèche, recreation

club and playground;

(vi) Land used for any other buildings made by

management under any other law in force ;


(vii) land used for seed "bari";


(f) lands included in town land.


**Definitions.** 3. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or

context,
(1) "agriculture" includes horticulture, pisciculture and other

allied agricultural pursuits;


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(2) "agricultural year" means the year commencing from the

first day of Baisakh and ending with the last day of Chaitra,
according to Assamese Calendar;

(3) "agriculturist" means a person who cultivates land

personally;

(4) "holding" means a parcel or parcels of land or an

undivided share thereof, held by a tenant and forming the subject
of a separate tenancy;

(5) "improvement" means any work which adds to the value

of the holding, which is suitable to the holding and which is
executed directly for the benefit of the holding, and includes,
(a) construction of wells, tanks, water channels or other

works for storage, supply or distribution of water for
the purpose of agriculture or for drinking or for the use
of men and cattle employed in agriculture ;

(b) drainage, reclamation from rivers or other waters or

protection from flood, erosion or other damage by
water, or land used for agricultural purposes or waste
land which is culturable ;

(c) erection of dwelling house for tenant and his family

together with all necessary outhouses;


(6) "land" means "agricultural land";and "agricultural land"

means land used for agricultural purpose or purposes subservient
thereto.

Explanation.-Land under homestead occupied for residential

purposes in connection with an agricultural holding shall be
deemed to be included in "agricultural land"

(7) "landlord" means a person immediately under whom a

tenant holds but does not include any Government ;

(8) "money rent" in relation to rent payable in crop-share for

the purpose of deposit into court and for calculation of arrear rent
in respect of rent payable in crop-share is the money value of the
crop deliverable by a tenant to his landlord and such money value
shall be computed on the basis of the market value of that crop
prevailing at the time of harvesting in the locality concerned;"

(9) "notification" means a notification published in the Official

Gazette ;


(10) "personal cultivation" means cultivation by the person

himself, or by member of his family or by hired labourers on
fixed remuneration payable in cash or kind but not in crop share,
under personal supervisions of the person himself or any
member of his family, provided it is accompanied by the bearing
of risks of cultivation by the owner and by residence in the

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village in which the land is situated or nearby village or town
within a distance of 5 miles during the greater part of the
agricultural season:

Provided that in the case of a person who is a widow or a

minor, or is subject to any physical or mental disability or is a
member of the Defence forces of the Indian Union or is a student
below the age of 21 years of an educational institution
recognised by the State Government, the land shall be deemed
under personal cultivation even in the absence of such personal
supervision ;

(11) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules framed under the
Act ;

(12) "principal crop" shall mean only one crop for each

agricultural year as may be agreed upon mutually between the
landlord and the tenant:

Provided that where there is no agreement, the principal crop

shall be only one agricultural crop grown in each agricultural
year _viz., sali or such local name generally used in respect of_
paddy known as winter pady and the harvesting of which is done
in the months of December, January and February,

corresponding to Agrahayana, Pausa and Magha ;

(13) "rent" means whatever is lawfully payable or deliverable

by the tenant to the landlord in cash or in kind or partly in cash
and partly in kind whether as a fixed quantity of produce or as a
share of the produce, on account of use or occupation of the land
or on account of any right in the land held by the tenant;

(14) "Revenue Officer" means any officer. with that

designation appointed by the State Government for the purposes
of this Act ;

(15) "Revenue Court" means the Court of the Deputy

Commissioner, Settlement Officer or, of such other officer as the
State Government may invest with the powers of Revenue Court
for the purposes of this Act;

(16) "Revenue Rate" means in respect of every parcel of land

in an estate settled temporarily at full rates, the rate at which
revenue is for the year actually payable to Government upon that
parcel of land;

(17) "tenant" means a person who cultivates or holds the land

of another person, and is, or but for a special contract (express or
implied) would be, liable to pay rent for that land to that other
person, and includes a person who under system generally
known as 'Adhi' (whether Guchiadhi or Guti-adhi), 'barga',
'chukti', 'bhag' or 'chukani' cultivates the land of another person
on condition of delivering a share or quantity of the produce of
such land to that person:

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Provided that a person who cultivates or holds land

immediately under the State Government is not a tenant within
the meaning of this definition.

Explanation.- A person who holds land on condition of service

to a temple or religious institution shall be deemed to be the
tenant of the manager of such temple or religious institution;

**1[ (18)** Town land" means any land
(a) included within the limits of the city of Gauhati as
constituted and notified under the provisions of sub-section
(1) of Section 42 the Gauhati Municipal Corporation Act,
1969 (Assam Act I of 1973),

(b) that may be included further in the city of Gauhati from
time to time under the provisions of subsection (2) of Section
42 of the Gauhati Municipal Corporation Act, 1969,

(c) of any other town notified as a city under the provisions of
any other Municipal Corporation Act for the time being in
force,

(d) within an area declared or deemed to be a Municipality or
notified area under the Assam Municipal Act, 1956 (Assam
Act XV of 1957),

(e) any other land which the State Government may declare
under the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation 1886 or in
accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Assam
Land Revenue Re-Assessment Act, 1936 (Assam Act VIII of
1936).]

(19) The following words shall have the same meaning as is
assigned to them in the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation,
1886, or the Rules framed thereunder:
"estates", "temporarily-settled-estate", "land-revenue",

"proprietor","land holder", "settlement-holder",

"periodic lease", "special cultivation", "ordinary

cultivation".


**1 of 1886.**


1. Subs. by Assam Act No.VII of 1983.


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## CHAPTER II


**Classes of Tenants**


**Classes of**
**Tenants.**

**Acquisition of**
**occupancy**
**rights.**


4. (1) There shall be, for the purpose of this Act, only the

following classes of tenants, namely,
(i) Occupancy tenant, that is to say, a tenant holding

immediately under a proprietor, landholder or
settlement holder other than land-holder, and having a
right of occupancy in the lands held by him,

(ii) non-occupancy tenant, that is to say, a tenant holding

immediately under a proprietor, landholder or
settlement- holder other than landholder but not
having a right of occupancy in the land held by him,
and

(2) From the date of commencement of this Act, any person

who was recorded in the record-of-rights as a privileged tenant
under the provisions of the Assam (Temporarily Settled
Districts) Tenancy Act, 1935 shall henceforward be recorded as
an Occupancy Tenant:

Provided that he shall, subject to the provisions of section 28

of this Act, continue to pay the rent at the same rate as before the
commencement of this Act.

(3) From the date of commencement of this Act, there shall be

no new under-tenant.


5. (1) A person who for a period of not less than 3 years has

continuously held land as a tenant shall have a right of
occupancy in that land.

(2) The period of 3 years may be wholly or partly before or

after the commencement of this Act.

(3) A person shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section

to have continuously held land under a landlord notwithstanding
that the particular landlord under whom he held the land was
different at different times, provided the land held by him was
the same.

(4) A person shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section,

to have held as a tenant any land held as a tenant by a person
whose heir he is.

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**Assam**
**Act III**
**of 1935.**


CHAPTER III


**Occupancy Tenant**


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**Incidence of**
**occupancy right.**

**Devolution on**
**death.**

**Right of**
**transfer.**

**Prohibition of**
**sub-letting.**

**Right of use of**
**land.**


(5) If a tenant recovers possession of his holding under any

law in force, any period during which he might have been out of
possession, shall count towards the period specified in subsection (1).

6. An occupancy tenant shall have permanent, heritable and
transferable right of use and occupancy in the land of his holding,
subject to the other provisions of this Act.

7. If a tenant dies intestate in respect of a right of occupancy, it shall,
subject to any custom, descend in the same manner as other
immovable property.

8. An occupancy tenant shall have a right of transfer in respect of his
holding with prior permission of the Government in the manner
prescribed. A notice of such transfer shall be served on the
landlord in the manner prescribed :

Provided that an occupancy tenant shall not transfer his land to
a non-agriculturist.

9. From the date of commencement of this Act, an occupancy tenant
shall have no right to sub-let his land.

10. An occupancy tenant may use the land of his tenancy in any
manner which does not materially impair the value of the land or
render it unfit for the purpose of tenancy.


**Right in trees.** 11. An occupancy tenant shall be entitled, if there is no under-tenant
under him,
(i) to plant, (ii) to enjoy the flowers, fruits and other products
of, (iii)to fell, and (iv) to utilise and dispose of the timber of
any tree on such land :

Provided that in doing so he does not contravene the provisions
of any law :

Provided further that he shall not be entitled without landlord's
consent, to fell, utilise or dispose of the timber of any tree which
stood on the holding before the creation of the tenancy. When the
tenancy is over 20 years old, all trees standing on the land shall be
presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have been planted or to
have begun to grow during the tenancy.


Any occupancy tenant shall pay rent for his holding at fair and
equitable rate, subject to the maximum rate of rent laid down
under the provisions of section 28 of this Act :

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**Obligation to**
**pay fair rent.**


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Provided that if the tenant has been holding his land for a
continuous period of not less than 10 years (i) at a rate of rent
never exceeding the revenue rate or (ii) at less than the revenuerate in addition to service to be rendered by him then the rent at
the revenue-rate shall be deemed to be the fair and equitable rent.

Rent of an occupancy tenant shall not be enhanced except as
provided for in Chapter VII of this Act.


**Restriction**
**enhancement of**
**rent.**

**Protection from**
**ejectment.**

**Incidence of the**
**tenancy.**

**Prohibition of**
**sub-letting.**

**Obligation to**
**pay fair rent.**

**Restrictions on**
**enhancement of**
**rent.**

**Protection**
**against**
**ejectment.**


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15. (a) A non-occupancy tenant shall have right of possession till
he is lawfully ejected and subject to the other provisions of the
Act or any custom the tenancy shall descend in the same manner
as other immovable property.

(b) A non-occupancy holding shall not be transferable except
for the purpose of mortgage for the purpose of agriculture only in
favour of the State Government, the Union Government, a Cooperative Society or an authorised bank to secure loan advanced
by such Government, Society, or Bank and in the event of any
default in the repayment of such loan, it shall be lawful for the
Government, the Society or the bank as the case may be, to cause
the tenant's interest in the land to be attached and sold under the
authority provided for in Section 49 of this Act and to apply the
proceeds in payment of such loan.

16. From the date of commencement of this Act, a non-occupancy
tenant shall have no right to sub- let his land.

17. A non-occupancy tenant shall pay rent for his holding at fair and
equitable rate, subject to the maximum rate of rent laid down
under provisions of Section 28 of this Act.

18. Rent of a non-occupancy tenant shall not be enhanced except as
provided for in Chapter VII of this Act.

19. A non-occupancy tenant shall not be ejected except as provided
for in Chapter IX of this Act.

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14. An occupancy tenant shall not be liable to ejectment from his
holding except as provided for in Chapter IX of this Act.


## CHAPTER IV


**Non-Occupancy Tenant**


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## CHAPTER V


**Prohibition**
**against creating**
**new under-**
**tenant fenancy.**

**Acquisition of**
**ownership rights**
**and**
**intermediary**
**rights by**
**tenants.**

**Acquisition of**
**ownership rights**
**and**
**intermediary**
**rights by**
**Government for**
**tenants.**


**Under- Tenant**

20. On and from the date of commencement of this Act, there shall be
no new under-tenant holding land under an occupancy tenant or a
non-occupancy tenant :

Provided that any under-tenant holding any land prior to the
enforcement of this Act, shall, however, continue to hold the same
on the same terms and conditions as immediately before the
commencement of this Act until he acquires the intermediary and
ownership rights of his holding under the provisions of Chapter
VI.


## CHAPTER VI


**Acquisition of intermediary and ownership rights**


21. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any law, custom, or
agreement, an occupancy tenant personally cultivating the land of
his tenancy, shall be entitled to acquire the rights, titles and
interests of his landlord, hereinafter called 'the ownership rights'
according to the provisions of Section 23(I):

Provided that where the holding of an occupancy tenant is
being cultivated by an under-tenant as defined in The Assam
(Temporarily Settled District) Tenancy Act, 1935, from any date
prior to enforcement of this Act, such under-tenant shall be
entitled to acquire the rights, titles and interests of his landlord,
hereinafter called 'the intermediary rights' and also the ownership
rights of the land owner of the holding according to provisions of
Section 23 (II) :

Provided further that the ownership rights of any land of a land
lord who is a widow or a minor or physically or mentally disabled
person or a member of the Defence Services shall not be liable to
acquisition under the provisions of this Chapter.


22.


The State Government may at any time after the commencement
of this Act, by Notification declare that
(i) the rights, titles and interests of any or all landlords in
respect of any holding held and personally cultivated by
occupancy tenants, shall stand transferred to and vest in the
respective occupancy tenants free from all encumbrances created
by the land-lords ;

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(ii) the rights, titles and interests of any or all landlords in
respect of holding held by occupancy tenants or non-occupancy
tenants but cultivated by an under-tenant as defined in the Assam
(Temporarily Settled Districts) Tenancy Act, 1935, from a date
prior to commencement of this Act and the intermediary rights of
the occupancy tenants or non- occupancy tenants as the case may
be, shall stand transferred to and vest in the respective undertenants free from all encumbrances created by the occupancy
tenants or non-occupancy tenants or the land-lords.

On such declaration the provisions of Section 24 shall apply.

**Acquisition of** 23. (I) Any occupancy tenant personally cultivating the land of his
**ownership rights** tenancy, desirous of acquiring the ownership rights of his
**and** landlord may at any time make an application in writing to the
**intermediary** Deputy Commissioner and on such application being made and
**rights by** Compensation as provided in Section 25 is determined and paid
**tenants.** by the occupancy tenant, the Deputy Commissioner shall declare

the said occupancy tenant to have acquired the ownership rights
free from all encumbrances.

(II) Any under-tenant, as defined in The Assam (Temporarily
Settled Districts) Tenancy Act, 1935, cultivating the holding of an
occupancy tenant or non-occupancy tenant from a date prior to
commencement of this Act, desirous of acquiring the
intermediary rights of his land-lord and the ownership rights of
the land-owner of his holding, may at any time make an
application in writing to the Deputy Commissioner, and on such
application being made and compensation as provided in Section
24 is determined and paid by the under-tenant, the Deputy
Commissioner shall declare the said under-tenant to have
acquired the intermediary rights of his land-lord and the
ownership rights of his holding free from all encumbrances.


The total compensation payable for acquiring the ownership rights
as well as the intermediary rights if any, of any holding shall be an
amount equal to 50 times the full rate of annual land revenue
payable for such land.


**Compensation.**

**Apportionment**
**of compensation.**


24.


25. (1) Where an occupancy tenant is personally cultivating the
holding, his land-lord shall be entitled to receive the entire amount
of 50 times of land revenue.

(2) Where an under-tenant is cultivating from a date prior to
commencement of this Act, the total amount of compensation shall
be apportioned as follows:
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(a) towards acquisition of 75 per cent of the total

ownership right. compensation.

(b) towards acquisition of

25 per cent of the total

intermediary rights.

compensation.

**Procedure for** 26. (1) In all cases of acquisition under this Chapter, the Deputy
**payment of** Commissioner shall give notice to the landlord and all other
**compensation.** persons having interests in the land and also fix a copy thereo in a

conspicuous place of his office. He shall thereafter make an
enquiry as prescribed, hear objections if any and then make an
order determining the compensation payable for acquisition of
ownership rights as also intermediary rights if any and apportion
the same where necessary.

(2) (a) If the acquisition be under section 22, the Deputy
Commissioner shall pay the amount as determined from the fund
placed at his disposal within a period of 3 months from the date of
his passing orders under sub-section (I) above.

(b) If the acquisition be under the provisions of Section 23, the
Deputy Commissioner shall direct the occupancy tenant or undertenant as the case may be to deposit the amount within a period of
one month from the date of the order under sub-section ( 1) above
and pay the compensation within a period of three months from
the date of the said order under sub-section (1).

(3) In all cases of acquisition under section 22, the occupancy
tenant or under-tenant as the case may be, shall pay to the
Government in 5 equated annual instalments the compensation as
determined by the Deputy Commissioner, the first instalment
payable being due on the expiry of 3 months from the date of his
order.

Where any instalment of compensation is not deposited in the
Treasury within 30 days from the date of its becoming due, the
Deputy Commissioner shall proceed to recover the instalments as
if it were an arrear of land revenue.

(4) (a) In case of acquisition under section 22, on deposit of

the first instalment of compensation as assessed, the Deputy
Commissioner shall issue to the erstwhile tenant a certificate of
ownership right and also correct the revenue records,

(b) In case of acquisition under section 23, on deposit of

the compensation as assessed, the Deputy Commissioner shall
issue to the erstwhile tenant a certificate of ownership right and
also correct the revenue records.

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(5) In case of dispute as to the person or persons who are
entitled to receive the amount of compensation money, the amount
shall be kept in deposit in a Government treasury and the dispute
shall be referred to the Civil Court having jurisdiction and the
amount shall then be paid in terms of the final decision of the
court.

## CHAPTER VII


**Rent**


**liability to pay**
**rent,**

**Maximumrate of**
**rent.**

**Grounds for**
**enhancement of**
**rent.**


27. Notwithstanding anything contained in any law, custom or
agreement, no tenant shall be liable to pay rent whether in cash or
in kind at a rate exceeding the maximum rate of rent as provided
for hereinafter following.

28. The maximum rate of rent payable by an occupancy or nonoccupancy tenant shall be as follows: (a) in case of cash rent, not exceeding 3 times of the land
revenue payable for such land,

(b) in case of crop-rent, a rate of rent not exceeding one-fifth
of the produce of the principal crop grown in each agricultural
year:
Provided that where the crop fails due to natural calamities
and/or payment of the crop share is not possible due tocircumstances beyond the control of the tenant, a sum equal to
double of annual land revenue payable by his immediate landlord
for such holding shall be fair rent:
Provided further that atenant desiring to pay his rent in cash in
lieu of crop-rent may, after giving a written notice of not less than
30 days to the landlord, pay the money value of the crop
deliverable by him to his landlord, computed on the basis of the
market value of the principal crop prevailing at the time of
harvesting at the locality concerned.


29.


Subject to the maximum limits laid down in section 28 of this Act,
the rent of a tenant shall be liable to enhancement on one or more
of the following grounds, namely:
(i) that the productive powers of the land held by the tenant
have been increased by fluvial action ; or
(ii) that the productive powers of the land held by the tenant
have been increased by any improvement effected by or at
the expense of the landlord ; or
(iii) that the area of the tenant's holding has been increased by
alluvion or otherwise ; or

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(iv) that the revenue rate payable by the landlord to the State

Government in respect of the holding of the tenant has
increased.

**Procedure for** 30. A landlord of any holding desiring an enhancement of rent on any
**enhancement of** ground mentioned in section 29 may apply to the Deputy
**rent.** Commissioner stating the specific ground on which the claim for

enhancement rests. The Deputy Commissioner shall there upon
make the necessary inquiry, and may, for that purpose, cause an
inspection of the land by a Revenue Officer, and shall thereafter
pass such orders as deemed fit subject always to the maximum rate
of rent laid down in section 28 of this Act:


Provided that

**Grounds for**
**reduction of**
**rent.**

**Procedure for**
**reduction of**
**rent.**


(1) Where an enhancement is claimed under section 29(i), the
Deputy Commissioner shall not take into account any increase in
productive powers due to fluvial action, which is merely
temporary or casual ;

(2) Where the enhancement is claimed under section 29(ii), the
Deputy Commissioner shall have regard to actual increase in
productive powers caused by the improvement, the cost of
improvement, and also the increase or decrease, if any, in the cost
of cultivation for utilising the improvement.

31. The rent of a tenant shall be liable to reduction on one or more of
the following grounds, namely : 
(i) that the productive powers of the land held by the tenant

have been decreased due to any action of the landlord or
due to any cause beyond the control of the tenant during
the currency of the present tenancy; or

(ii) that the area of the tenant's holding has been decreased

by diluvion, or by acquisition for public purpose ; or

(iii) that the revenue rate payable by his landlord to the State

Government in respect of the tenant's holding has
decreased.

32. A tenant desiring any reduction of rent or any one or more of the
grounds mentioned in section 31 may apply to the Deputy
Commissioner stating the specific ground on which the claim for
reduction rests. The Deputy Commissioner shall thereupon make
the necessary enquiry and may, for this purpose, cause an
inspection of the land by a Revenue Officer, and shall thereafter
pass such orders as deemed fit.


**Date of effect.** 33.


Enhancement or reduction of rent, as the case may be, will take
effect from the date of the order of the Deputy Commissioner.

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**When rent is**
**due for**
**payment.**


34. (1) Cash-rent shall become due for payment a fortnight earlier
than the corresponding land revenue which is payable by his landlord becomes due for payment, or where such landlord is not liable
to pay the revenue, would have become payable had it been
assessed to revenue.

(2) Crop-rent shall become due for delivery within 60 days
from the date of harvesting the crop.


**Arrear of rent.** 35. Rent not paid when it falls due shall be deemed to be an arrear.


**Rent-suit.** 36.


No arrear of rent shall be realisable otherwise than by a rent-suit
filed in the competent Civil Court. The procedure for such rentsuit shall be according to the provisions of the Civil Procedure
Code, 1908 and the plaint shall, in addition to matters mentioned
in rules 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 and sub-rule (2) of Rule 9 of Order VII in
the first Schedule to Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, specify the
area of the land to which the suit relates and where fields are
numbered in the village papers, the number and area of each field
and, in suits for arrears, the amount of the yearly rent which is
payable. Where the land to which the suit relates does not form
one or more fields numbered in the village papers the plaint shall
contain a sufficient description of the land and its boundaries.

(i) Every tenant who pay his rent shall be entitled to obtain

forthwith from his landlord a written receipt signed by the
landlord or his authorised agent.

(ii) The receipt shall contain a description of the land for which

the rent has been paid, the total amount of rent due, the
amount of rent in cash or the quantity of rent in kind that has
been paid and the year for which it has been paid,

(iii) If a receipt does not contain substantially the above

particulars, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is shown,
to be a full acquittance of the rent due from the tenant.

(iv) When a landlord or his agent, without reasonable cause, fails

to deliver to the tenant a receipt as required by the foregoing
sub-sections, the land-lord shall be liable to pay as
compensation to the tenant a sum not exceeding two
hundred rupees for each default.

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**Rent receipt.**


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**Deposit of cash**
**rent or money**
**rent.**

**Sale of a holding**
**for arrear of**
**rent in certain**
**cases.**

**Attachment and**
**proclamation of**
**sale.**


38. (1) When a landlord refuses to accept any rent when tendered
to him by a tenant or when the tenant is in bonafide doubt as to
who is entitled to receive the rent, the tenant may make an
application to the Revenue Officer in the prescribed manner
seeking permission to deposit the cash rent or money rent as the
case may be along with the cost of transmission, and fee for
notice.

(2) The Revenue Officer, if satisfied after enquiry in the
prescribed manner, as to the bonafide of the circumstances
preventing the tenant from paying the rent to his landlord, shall
accept the amount tendered and issue a receipt thereof. The receipt
shall be deemed to be a valid discharge of the rent actually
deposited by the tenant.

(3) In cases of refusal to accept the rent the Revenue Officer
shall remit the rent deposited by the tenant by Money Order to the
last known address of the landlord.

(4) In other cases the Revenue Officer shall cause a notice
about the fact of deposit of rent in his office fixed in a conspicuous
place and also to be served on any person whom he has reason to
believe, is entitled to deposit. He shall thereafter proceed to hear
the person or persons interested in the manner prescribed and if
there is no dispute, the Revenue Officer shall cause immediate
payment. In cases of dispute as to the person or persons who are
entitled to receive the rent, the amount shall be kept tn deposit in a
Government Treasury and the dispute shall be referred to a Civil
Court having jurisdiction and the amount shall then be paid in
terms of the final decision of the Court.


39. (1) Where the unsatisfied rent-decree relates to arrear rent in
respect of a holding of any occupancy tenant, he shall not be liable
to ejectment for such arrear. But his holding shall be liable to sale
in execution of the unsatisfied rent-decree and the landlord shall,
instead of filing a suit for ejectment, submit an application,
accompanied with the rent-decree to the competent Civil Court for
attaching and putting the holding of the defaulting tenant to sale,
and the decree for rent shall be satisfied out of the proceeds of the
sale.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Civil Procedure
Code, 1908, or any other law for the time being in force, the
procedure for attaching and selling the holding of the defaulting
tenant shall be according to the provisions hereinafter following.

40. The competent Civil Court, on receipt of the application of the
landlord, shall issue an order of attachment of the holding and also
a proclamation of sale of the same.

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CHAPTER VIII


**Sale for arrear under decree**


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**Manner of**
**publication of**
**sale of**
**proclamation.**


41. The proclamation of sale shall be published in the following
manner:(a) by affixing a copy thereof in a conspicuous place on the
land of the holding, and

(b) by affixing a copy thereof in a conspicuous place of the
issuing Court, and

(c) by sending by registered post to the defaulting tenant a
copy of the order of attachment and a copy of the
proclamation of sale.


**Date of sale** 42. The sale shall not take place until after the expiration of at least 30
days from the date on which all the three conditions of Section 41
are fully complied with :

Provided that no such sale shall take place until after a notice
has been served on the judgement debtor.

**Sale** 43. On the date of the sale, it shall be put up to auction and sold to the
highest bidder who shall pay one-fourth of the purchase money on
the spot and the balance within 15 days:

Provided that, if the defaulting tenant or an interested person
pays the arrear under the decree together with the cost, if any of
the sale before the day fixed for sale, then, the sale shall be stayed
and the land released from attachment:

Provided further that in the case of a holding of an estate
pertaining to a religious institution, if the highest bid be that of a
member of a different religion from the one to which the
institution belongs the landlord shall have the option, to
be declared in writing to the Court within 30 days of the sale, of
purchasing the holding at the highest bid.


**Disposal of the**
**sale proceeds.**

**Setting aside of**
**sale on deposit**
**of decretal**
**amount.**


44. The proceeds of the sale, after defraying the cost of the sale due to
Government, if any, shall be disposed of in the following manner:
(a) There shall first be paid to the decree holder the cost, if
any, incurred by him in bringing the holding to sale ;

(b) there shall next be paid to him the amount under the
decree ;

(c) the balance, if any, shall then be paid to the defaulting
tenant.


45.


The defaulting tenant or any interested person may, within 30 days
of the date of the sale apply to the Court conducting the sale to set
aside the sale on depositing in the Court, (a) the decretal amount
together with cost of the sale for payment to the decree holder, and
(b) a sum equal to 5 per cent of the purchase money for payment
to the auction purchaser as a penalty, and ( e) the cost of the sale,

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**Setting aside of**
**sale on ground**
**of irregularity**
**etc.**

**Confirmation of**
**the sale.**

**Auction**
**purchaser to**
**take the holding**
**subject to**
**certain**
**encumbrances.**

**Recovery of**
**certain loans**
**etc., by the**
**above**
**procedure.**

**Forfeiture of**
**tenancy on**
**subletting and**
**transfer.**


if any, payable to the Government, and the Court shall thereupon
set aside the sale and shall cause the amounts under (a), (b) and (c)
above to be paid to the respective persons or authorities.

46. The defaulting tenant, the decree holder or any other interested
persons may, within 60 days of the date of the sale, apply to the
Court to set aside the sale on the ground of material irregularity, or
fraud or mistake in publishing or conducting the sale:

Provided that no sale shall be set aside on this ground unless
the applicant proves to the satisfaction of the Court that he has
sustained substantial injury by reason of such irregularity or
mistake.


50. If a tenant sublets or transfers the whole or any part of his
holding otherwise than in accordance with the provision of this
Act, then the tenant's interest thereon shall be forfeited ; and

(a) if the transferee is an agriculturist, he shall be deemed
to have become a tenant under the landlord under the same
terms and conditions as the transferor;

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47.

48.

49.


If there is no application to set aside the sale under sections 45
and 46 or if any such application has been disallowed, the Court
shall make an order confirming the sale which shall, thereupon,
become absolute.

The auction purchaser shall take the holding subject to lawful
encumbrances, if any, including grant of land for public worship,
public cremation ground or public burial ground.

Nothing in this Act shall prevent a holding of an occupancy tenant
or a non-occupancy tenant being sold in the manner laid down
above under orders of the Deputy Commissioner for the recovery
of (i) a loan advanced by the State Government, the Union
Government or a Co-operative Society, or (ii) any other
Government dues, but the rent of the holding shall remain the first
charge on the sale proceeds after defraying the cost of the sale.


## CHAPTER IX


## Ejectment


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**Grounds of**
**ejectment.**

**Rights of ejected**
**tenants to cost of**
**improvement.**


(b) if the transferee is a non-agriculturist then such transfer

shall be void and the Deputy Commissioner may, after such
enquiry as may be prescribed, and after ejecting any
persons in possession, place any landless agriculturist as a
non-occupancy tenant of the landlord.

51. (1) An occupancy tenant shall not be ejected by his landlord
from his holding except in execution of a decree for ejectment
passed on the ground that he has used the land comprised in his
holding in a manner which renders it unfit for the purpose of the
tenancy.

(2) Any tenant, not being an occupancy tenant, shall not be
ejected from the land of his tenancy except in execution of a
decree for ejectment passed on any one or more of the following
grounds, namely:
(a) that he has used the land comprised in his holding in a manner

which renders it unfit for the purposes of the tenancy ;


52.


(b) that he has broken a condition of his tenancy consistent with

the provisions of this Act, and on the breach of which he is,
under the terms of the contract between himself and his
landlord, liable to be ejected ;

(c) that he has failed to pay the arrear of rent; and

(d) that the land is _bonafide required by the landlord for his_
personal cultivation. No suit for ejectment on this ground
shall be entertained before the expiry of 12 months or after
the expiry of 15 months for the date of creation of tenancy:

Provided that if the tenant has elsewhere got no land or
has lands less than 10 bighas in area, then he shall not be
ejected on this ground unless he has been left with so much
area as will make the total of his holding equal to 10 bighas:

Provided further that if the landlord does not cultivate
the land personally within one year of the date of ejection of
the tenant then the tenant shall be restored to his possession.

Every tenant who is ordered to be ejected from his holding
shall be entitled to compensation for improvements lawfully made
by him or his predecessors in interest in respect of his holding and
the Court's order for ejectment shall be made conditional on
payment of the compensation.

In estimating the compensation to be paid for improvement,
regard shall be had to the following;
(a) the amount by which the produce of the holding or the
value of the produce or the value of the holding has
increased by the improvement ;

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**Rights of ejected**
**tenants in**
**respect of crops,**
**dwelling house,**
**etc.**


(b) the condition of the improvement and the probable
duration of its effects ;

(c) the labour and capital involved in making the
improvement ;

(d) reduction or remission of rent or other advantage given
by the landlord to the tenant in consideration of the
improvement;

(e) in case of reclamation or irrigation, the length of time
during which the tenant has had the benefit of the
improvement as an unenhanced rent.

53. The following provisions shall apply in the case of every tenant
ejected from a holding:
(a) Where the tenant has, before the date of his ejectment,
sown or planted crops in any land comprised in the
holding, he shall be entitled at the option of the landlord,
either to retain possession of that land till the harvest for
the purpose of tending and gathering in the crops or to
receive from the landlord the value of the crops as
estimated by the Court executing the ejectment decree. If
the landlord elects to allow the tenant to retain possession
of the land till the harvest, the tenant shall be liable to pay
to the landlord, during the period of such retention of
possession such rent as the Court executing the ejectment
decree deems reasonable.

(b) Where the tenant has, before the date of his ejectment,
prepared for sowing any land of his holding but has not
sown or planted crops therein, he shall be entitled to
receive from the landlord the value of the labour and
capital expended by him in preparing the land, as
estimated by the Court executing the ejectment decree,
together with reasonable interest on that value.

(c) In the case of an occupancy tenant compensation shall
also be payable for trees standing on the land which the
occupancy tenant is entitled to cut and appropriate.

(d) No tenant shall be ejected from his dwelling site, except
after giving the tenant an option to purchase the dwelling
site, and if the dwelling house was constructed at the
landlord's cost, then also the dwelling house, at the
prevailing market value. If there is any dispute as to the
value, then the Court executing the ejectment decree shall
determine the value after making such enquiry as it deems
fit.

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(1) No tenant shall be ejected from his holding except in
execution of an ejectment decree passed by a competent Civil
Court ; and the relevant provisions of the Civil Procedure Code,
1908, shall apply to such proceeding.

(2) No suit for ejectment of a tenant on the grounds mentioned
in Section 51 (1) (2) (a) and (b) shall be entertained unless the
landlord has first served a notice on the tenant requiring him to
remedy, or to pay compensation for the misuse or the breach
complained of and the tenant has failed to comply with it within
one month of the receipt of the notice.

(3) If it appears to the Court trying the ejectment suit that the
complaint of misuse or the breach is true but it is remediable, then
it may direct the tenant to remedy the misuse or the breach or to
pay a reasonable compensation fixed by it within a specified date,
and if the tenant still fails to comply with the direction, shall pass
the decree, unless there are other reasons for not passing such
decree.

(4) No suit for ejectment on the ground mentioned in Section
51 (2) (c) shall be entertained unless at first a decree for rent has
been obtained.

(5) No suit for ejectment on the ground mentioned in Section
51 (2) (d)shall be entertained, unless a three months' notice
ending with the date of expiration of the lease has first been
served on the tenant.

**1[(1)  Without prejudice to any provision in any other law for the**
time being in force relating to restoration of possession, whenever
a tenant or under-tenant referred to in Section 20 of this Act is
ejected or caused to be ejected from his holding except in
execution of a decree for ejectment passed by a competent Civil
Court or whenever the cultivation of land by a tenant or undertenant is terminated or caused to be terminated by the landlord or
by anybody else,then the tenant or under-tenant concerned may
apply to the Revenue Officer having jurisdiction in the area within
90 days of such ejectment or termination, as the case may be, or in
case where such ejectment or termination has taken place after the
coming into force of the Assam (Temporarily Settle Areas)
Tenancy Act, 1971,but before the coming into force of the Assam
(Temporary Settled Areas) Tenancy (Amendment) Act, 1974,
within 90 days from the date of coming into force of the Assam
(Temporarily Settled Areas) Tenancy (Amendment) Act, 1974 for
restoration of possession and the Revenue Officer may, after such
enquiry as he may find it necessary and after issuing notice to the
landlord or the person preventing the cultivation of land by the
tenant or under-tenant, order or direct that the tenant or undertenant be restored to the possession of the land.

(2) On the order passed under the preceding sub-section becoming
final under sub-section (2) of section 67, the landlord or any other
person against whom the order is passed shall immediately restore
possession to the tenant or under-tenant, as the case may be, If the

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**Procedure of**
**ejectment.**

Restoration of
possession to
tenant or undertenant ejected or
whose cultivation
is prevailed.


54.

54A.


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landlord or the person, against whom the order is directed, does
not restore the possession within 7 days from the date of the order
becoming final than the Revenue Officer, on application by the
tenant or under-tenant concerned, shall himself take possession of
the holding and deliver it to such tenant or under-tenant, as the
case may be.]


## CHAPTER X


## Preparation and maintenance of record-of-rights of tenants 


(1) The State Government may, where a settlement operation
under Chapter III of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation,
1886, is not being carried out at any time, make an order in the
case of any local area, estates or part thereof directing that a
record-of-rights, with or without survey, for all or any class or
classes of tenants be prepared by a Settlement Officer.

(2) A notification in the official Gazette of an order under this
section shall be conclusive evidence that the order has been duly
made.

(3) The survey shall be made and the record-of-rights prepared
in accordance with rules made in this behalf by the State
Government.


**Power to order**
**preparation of**
**record-of-rights**
**for tenants.**

**Particulars to be**
**recorded.**


55.


56. Where an order is made under Section 55 the particulars to be
recorded shall be specified in the order and may include either
without or in addition to other particulars, some or all of the
following, namely, 

(a) the name of each tenant ;


(b) the class to which the tenant belongs and the date of

creation of the tenancy in respect of non-occupancy
tenants ;

(c) the area and situation of the land held by the tenant ;


(d) the name of each tenant's landlord ;

(e) the rent payable at the time the record-of-rights is being

prepared ;

(f) the mode in which that rent has been fixed whether by

contract, by order of a Court, or otherwise ;

(g) if the rent is a gradually increasing rent, the time at

which and the steps by which it increases ;


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(h) the special conditions and incidence, if any, of the

tenancy ;

(i) any right of way or other easement attaching to the land

for which the record-of-rights is being prepared :

Provided that, if lands are not used for purpose connected with
agriculture, it shall be sufficient to record that fact together with
such particulars as may be prescribed.

(1) Where a draft record-of-rights has been prepared, the
Settlement Officer shall publish the draft in the prescribed manner
and for the prescribed period, and shall receive and consider any
objections which may be made to any entry therein, or to any
omission therefrom, during the period of publication.

(2) Where such objections have been considered and disposed
of according to such rules as the State Government may make, the
Settlement Officer shall finally frame the record and shall cause it
to be finally published in the prescribed manner and the
publication shall be conclusive evidence that the record has been
duly made under this Chapter.

(1) Where a record-of-rights has been finally published under
section 57, the Settlement Officer shall within such time as the
state Government may by general or special order, require, make a
certificate stating the fact of such final publication and the date
thereof, and shall date and subscribe the same with his name and
official title.

(2) The certificate of final publication, or, in the absence of
such certificate, a certificate signed by the Deputy Commissioner
of a district in which the estate, or part thereof to which the recordof-rights relates is situate, stating that a record-of-rights has been
finally published on a specified date shall be conclusive proof of
such publication and of the date thereof,

(3) The State Government may, by notification, declare with
regard to any estate, that a record-of-rights has been finally
published in the village in which the estate is situate and such
notification shall be conclusive proof of such publication.

(4) In any suit or other proceeding in which a record-of-rights
prepared and published under this Chapter or a duly certified copy
thereof, or extract therefrom, is produced, such record-of-rights
shall be presumed to have been finally published unless the
contrary is proved.

(5) Every entry in a record-of-rights finally published shall be
conclusive evidence of the matter referred to in such entry, and
shall be presumed to be correct until it is proved by evidence to be
incorrect.

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**Preliminary**
**publication,**
**amendment and**
**final publication**
**of record-of-**
**rights.**

**Certificate of**
**and**
**presumption as**
**to final**
**publication and**
**presumption as**
**to correctness of**
**record of rights.**


57.

58.


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(1) An appeal, if presented within two months from the date

of the order appealed against, shall lie to the Director of Land
Records or any other officer or officers authorised by the State
Government in this behalf from every order passed by a Settlement
Officer prior to the final publication of the record-of-rights on any
objection made.

The orders of the Director of Land Records or any other officer
or officers authorised by the State Government in this behalf shall,
subject to the following sub-section be final.

(2) The State Government may in any case on application or

of its own motion, direct the revision of any record-of-rights or
any portion of a record-of-rights :

Provided that no such direction shall be made until reasonable
notice has been given to the parties concerned to appear and be
heard in the matter.


**Appeal to and**
**revision by**
**superior**
**authorities.**

**Power to direct**
**maintenance of**
**record-of-rights.**

**Procedure on**
**application for**
**registration or**
**on information**
**received**
**otherwise.**

**Application to**
**set aside order**
**directing the**
**registration.**


59.


(a) the information has been verified by local enquiry made by an

officer having the powers of Deputy Commissioner under
sections 50 to 54 of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation,
1886, or

(b) notice has been published and enquiry held in a manner

similar to that prescribed by Sections 52 and 53 of the Assam
Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886.

62. Where any person is aggrieved by an order directing registration
under Section 61 which has been made after verification of the
information received by local enquiry only, he may apply to the
officer passing the order or his successor in office to set aside the
order and on receipt of such application the officer receiving it
shall cancel the registration and then proceed to publish the notice
and hold the enquiry as in clause (b) of the proviso to Section 61.

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60 The State Government may make an order directing that the
record-of-rights in any district, local area, estate or class of estates
prepared under Chapter III, Part D, of the Assam Land and
Revenue Regulation, 1886, or under this Chapter shall be
maintained, so far as the interests of tenants of any class or classes
are concerned, by registering all changes in the ownership
accompanied by possession of such interests.

61. When an order is made under section 60 the Deputy
Commissioner or an officer invested with the powers of Deputy
Commissioner under sections 50 to 54 of the Assam Land and
Revenue Regulation, 1886, who receive information through an
application or otherwise of any change in the ownership and
possession, of any such interest as is referred to in the foregoing
section may make an order directing the registration of the name
of the person so entering into ownership and possession:


Provided that

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## CHAPTER XI

 Miscellaneous

**Surrenders.** 63. No tenant shall voluntarily surrender his holding except with the
prior permission from the Deputy Commissioner and any
voluntary surrender shall not be valid
(1) if such surrender is not approved by the Deputy

Commissioner ;

(2) if the tenant does not give at least 3 months notice in

writing to the landlord ; and

(3) if it is done without the consent and approval of the

encumbrancer or under-tenant or tenant when there is an
encumbrancer or an under-tenant or tenants as the case
may be :

Provided that the landlord shall not be eligible to
resume the land for personal cultivation. The Deputy
Commissioner may, when he permits a surrender place a
landless Agriculturist in the holding who shall, thereafter,
become a non-occupancy tenant of the landlord.

**Abandonment.** 64. (1) If a tenant not being an occupancy tenant voluntarily
abandons his usual residence in the village or the neighbourhood
without notice to his landlord and without arranging for payment
of his rent, ceases to cultivate his holding, either by himself or by
some other person, and is not traceable in spite of the best efforts
of the landlord, then the landlord may, at any time after expiration
of two years from the date of the tenant's ceasing to cultivate the
holding, and after giving information to the Deputy Commissioner
and obtaining his permission thereto enter on the holding.

(2) If the landlord is a proprietor or a landholder, he may let it
out to another tenant subject to the provisions of any law for the
time being in force, or cultivate the land himself ; but if the
landlord is himself a tenant, he shall not let it out again to an
under-tenant.

(3) If the tenant abandoning the land has an under-tenant
below him existing from a date prior to commencement of this Act
the said under-tenant shall become a tenant under the landlord on
the same terms and conditions as those on which the tenant who
abandoned the land had held it.

**Merger.** 65. When the landlord of any tenant's holding is a proprietor,
landholder or settlement holder and the entire interests of the

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**Matters**
**exempted from**
**cognizance of**
**civil Court.**


66.


landlord and the tenant in the holding become united in the same
person by transfer, succession or otherwise, such person shall have
no right to hold the land as a tenant but shall hold it as a
proprietor, land holder or settlement holder, as the case may be ;
but nothing in this section shall prejudicially affect the rights of
any third person.

Except where otherwise expressly provided for in this Act or the
Rules made thereunder, no Civil Court shall exercise jurisdiction
in any of the following matters,
(a) Claims to enhancement, reduction or alteration of rent

of holdings ;

(b) Claims to deposit rent ;
(c) Preparation of record-of-rights under Chapter X and

preparatior, signing, or alteration of any document
contained therein ;

(d) Maintenance of record-of-rights ;

**1[ (e) Claims to restoration of possession under Section 54 A.]**

In these matters, the jurisdiction shall only be with the
Revenue Court or Officer as the case may be.

(1) In all proceedings under this Act before a Revenue Officer or
in a Revenue Court, except those in connection with preparation of
record-of-rights under Chapter X and except where otherwise
expressly provided for, appeals shall lie as follows:
(a) to the Assam Board of Revenue from original order of

the Deputy Commissioner or the Settlement Officer,
within 60 days of the order appealed against ;

(b) to the Deputy Commissioner or the Settlement Officer,

within 30 days of the order appealed against, from
orders passed by any Revenue Officer subordinate to
him, even if the latter was exercising the delegated
power of the Deputy Commissioner or the Settlement
Officer when passing such order.


**Appeals.**


67.


1. Ins. by Assam Act No. XVIII of 1974.


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**1[ (2) The appellate order of the Assam Board of Revenue, the**
order of the Deputy Commissioner or the Settlement Officer when
to appeal is preferred, the appellate order of the Deputy
Commissioner or the Settlement Officer, the order of the Revenue
Officer including order passed by him in exercise of delegated
power of the Deputy Commissioner or Settlement Officer when no
appeal is filed shall be final.]

Except as provided in Sections 66 and 67 the Civil Court shall
have jurisdiction in all suits between landlord and tenant as such.


**Jurisdiction of**
**Civil Court.**

**Power to modify**
**Civil Procedure**
**Code in its**
**application to**
**landlord and**
**tenant suits.**

**Delegation of**
**Powers.**


68.


69. (I) The State Government may, from time to time. make rules
consistent with this Act declaring that any portion of the Civil
Procedure Code, 1908, shall not apply to suits between landlord
and tenants as such or to any specified classes of such suits or
apply to them subject to modifications specified in the rules.

(II) Subject to any rules made under the foregoing section and
to the other provisions of this Act, the Code of Civil Procedure,
1908, shall apply to all such suits.

70. The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
invest generally or for special purposes and with such restrictions
or conditions as it deems fit, 
(a) any Revenue Officer or Assistant Settlement Officer

with all or any of the powers of the Deputy
Commissioner or the Settlement Officer ; and

(b) any Settlement Officer with all or any of the powers of

the Deputy Commissioner for the purposes of and under
this Act.


**Penalties.** 71.


Whoever-

(i) wilfully fails or neglects to comply with any requirements

made of him under this Act, or

(ii) contravenes any lawful order passed under this Act, or

(iii) obstructs the Deputy Commissioner or the Revenue

Officer or any Officer authorised by him in taking any
lawful possession under this Act, or

(iv) willfully contravenes any provisions made in this Act or

Rules made thereunder, or


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**Protection of**
**action taken in**
**good faith.**

**Power to order**
**production of**
**documents, etc.**

**Power for**
**enforcing**
**attendance, etc.**

**Power to make**
**rules.**

**Repeal and**
**Saving.**


72.


75. (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of the Act.

(2) Every rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as
may be after it is made, before the State Legislature while it is in
session for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised
in one session or in two successive sessions, and if, before the
expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session
immediately following, the Legislature agrees in making any
modification in the rule or that the rule should not be made, the
rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be
of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such
modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the
validity of anything previously done under that rule.

76.    (1) The Assam (Temporarily Settled Districts) Tenancy Act,

1935 and the Assam Adhiar Protection and Regulation Act, 1948
are hereby repealed.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal ;

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Assam Act.
III of 1935
Assam Act
**XII of 1948.**


73.


74.


(v) furnishes information which he knows or believes to be

false or does not believe to be true, shall, on conviction
before a Magistrate, and in addition to any other action that
may be taken against him, be punishable with imprisonment
which may extend to 6 months or with fine which may
extend to one thousand rupees or with both.

No suit or proceeding or other legal proceeding shall lie against
any person for anything done in good faith in pursuance of any of
the provisions of the Act or the Rules or orders made thereunder.

The Deputy Commissioner, may, for the purpose of this Act,
require any person to produce any documents, paper or register
which is in his possession or under his control, or to furnish any
information which he may think necessary for the proper
discharge of any duties under this Act.

Any officer, or authority holding an enquiry or hearing an appeal
under this Act, shall have the power of a Civil Court under the
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 in respect of,
(a) enforcing attendance of any person and his examination on

oath ;


(b) compelling production of document ; and


(c) issue of Commission.


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(a) any rule made, any order issued, any notification

published, any proceeding commenced, any action taken,
or any thing whatsoever done under the Acts repealed,
shall continue and be deemed to have continued and have
effect as if made, issued, published, commenced, taken,
or done under the provisions of this Act ;

(b) any action taken, order made, or other acts and things

done by any officer acting or purporting to act under the
Acts repealed shall be valid and shall be deemed always
to have been valid and shall not be called in question in
any Court on the ground of incompetency of the Officer
to act under the Acts repealed

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