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No. 410 Dispur, Friday, 18th November, 2011, 27th Kartika, 1933 (S.E.)

**GO VERN ME NT OF ASSAM**

**OR DERS BY THE GO VERNOR**

**LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT : : : LEGISLATIVE BRANCH**

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**NOTIFICATIO N**

**The 18[th] November 2011**

**No. LGL.- 84/2009/12 : The following Act of the Assam Legislative Assembly which received**

the assent of the President is hereby published for general information.

**ASSAM ACT NO. XXI OF 2011**

**(Received the assent of the President on 28.10.2011)**

**THE ASSAM LAND G RABBING (PRO HIBITION ) ACT, 2010**


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**AN**

**ACT**

to prohibit the activity of land grabbing in the State of Assam.

Whereas there are organized attempts on the part ol certain

lawless persons operating individually and in groups to grab, either by

Preamble force or by deceitful means or otherwise, lands whether belonging to the

Government, a Public Sector Undertaking, a local authority, a religious

or charitable institution or endowment, including a wakf or any other

private persons or a site of historical monuments etc;

And. whereas it is necessary to arrest and curb immediately such

unlawful activities of land grabbing;

And whereas public order is adversely affected by such unlawful

activity of land grabbers.

It is hereby enacted in the Sixty-first Year of the Republic of India

as follows

Short title, 1. (1) This Act may be called the Assam Land Grabbing
extent,

(Prohibition) Act, 2010.

application and
commencement.

(2) It extends to the whole of Assam except the Autonomous

districts of Karbi Anglong, Dima Hasao and the Bodo Land

Territorial Council Area:

Provided that the Government may, by notification in

the official Gazette, extend the operation of this Act to the

aforesaid areas also with the consent of the concerned

Autonomous Councils as and when considers necessary.


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(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may,

by notification in the official Gazette, appoint.

(4) It applies to all lands situated within the limits of Guwahati Assam

Act No.

Municipal Corporation established under the Guwahati

I of

Municipal Corporation Act, 1969 and the Municipalities and 1973

Town Committees declared as such under the Assam

Assam

Municipal Act, 1956 and also applies to the rural areas of

Act No.

Assam save and except the Autonomous Districts of Karbi XV of

1957

Anglong, Dima Hasao and the Bodo Land Territorial Council

Area.

Definitions. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires ,-

(a) “Government” means the State Government of Assam;

(b) “Land” includes right in or over land, benefits to arise out o f

land and buildings, structures and other things attached to

earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to earth

and includes standing trees and crops ;

(c) “Land belonging to private person”, means any land

belonging to, -

(i) a private individual; or

(ii) an evacuee ;

the value or tire extent of which or the nature of the evil

involved shall be of substantial nature or in the interest of

justice required ;
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(d) “land grabber” means a person or a group of person who

occupy or attempt to occupy with or without the use o f force,

threat, intimidation and deceit, land over which he or they

have no ownership, title or physical possession and includes

any person who gives financial aid to any person or group o f

persons for taking up illegal possession of land over which he

or they have no ownership or title and for construction of

unauthorized structures thereon, or who abets the doing of

any of the above mentioned acts, and also includes the

successors-in-interests;

(e) “land grabbing” means every activity of land grabber to

occupy or attempting to occupy with or without the use of

force, threat, intimidation and deceit, any land (whether

belonging to the Government, a Public Sector undertaking, a

local authority, a religions or cheritable institution or

endowment, including a wakf or any other private person)

over which he or they have no ownership, title or physical

possession, without any lawful entitlement and with a view to

illegally taking possession of such land or creating illegal

tenancies or lease or licence, agreements or by constructing

unauthorised structures thereon for sale or hire or use or

occupation of such unauthorised structures and the term

“grabbed land” shall be construed accordingly;

(f) “person” includes a group or body of persons, an association,

a local authority, institution or a religious or charitable

institution or endowment whether incorporated or not;

(g) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

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(h) “Special Tribunal” means a Court o f the District and Sessions

Judge, having jurisdiction over the area, and includes the

Additional District and Sessions Judge;

(i) “Special Court” means a Special Court constituted under

section 14 of this Act;

(j) “Unauthorized Structures” means any structure constructed

under the Guwahati Municipal Corporation areas without

express permission in writing of the Gauhati Municipal Assam

Act No.

Corporation or the Guwahati Metropolitan Development

I of

Authority constituted under the Guwahati Municpal 1973

Assam

Corporation Act, 1969 and the Guwahati Metropolitan Act No.

20 o f

Development Authority Act, 1985, respectively, and

1987

elsewhere without the express permission of the authority

concerned, or except in accordance with any law for the time

being in force in the area concerned.

3. Land grabbing in any form is hereby declared unlawful and

Land Grabbing

Act 2

to be unlawful any act connected with or arising out of land grabbing shall of 1974

be a cognizable offence under the Code of Criminal

Procedure, 1973 and punishable under this Act.

Prohibition of 4. (I) No person shall commit or cause to be committed land
land grabbing

grabbing.

(2) No person shall, on or after the commencement of this Act,

continues to be in occupation, otherwise than as a lawful

tenant, of a grabbed land belonging to the Government, State

Government undertaking, local authority, religious or

charitable institution or endowment including a wakf, or

other private person. °<


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(3) Whoever contravences the provisions of sub-section (1) or

sub-section (2) shall be guilty of an offence punishable under

this Act and on conviction, be punished with imprisonment

for a term not less than two years, which may extend to five

years and with fine which may extend to twenty five

thousand rupees.

Penalty for 5. Whoever, with a view to grabbing land in contravention of

other offence in

the provisions of this Act or in connection with any such land

connection with
land grabbing. grabbing ,-

(a) sells or allots, or offers or advertises for sale or allotment, or

has in his possession for the puipose of sale or allotment, any

land grabbed;

(b) instigates or incites any person to commit land grabbing;

(c) uses any land grabbed or causes or permits knowingly to be

used, for purpose connected with sale or allotment; or

(d) causes or procures or attempts to procure any person to do

any of the above mentioned acts shall, on conviction be

punished with imprisonment for a term not less than two

years which may extend to five years and with fine which

may extend to twenty five thousand rupees.

Offences by 6. (1) If the person committing an offence under this Act, is a

Companies.

company, the company as well as every person in charge of

and responsible to, the company for the conduct of its

business at the time of commission of the offence, shall be

deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be

proceeded against and punished accordingly:

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Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall render

any such person liable to any punishment, if he proves that

the offence was committed without his knowledge or that he

exercised all due deligence to prevent the commission of

such offence.

(2 ) N otw it hst andin g a nyth in g conta in ed in sub-section (1) above,

w h e re a n y o ffe n c e u n d e r th is A c t h a s b e e n c o m m itte d b y a

com pany an d it is pro ved th at th e off ence has be en

com m itte d w ith th e conse nt or conniv ance of , or th at th e

c o m m issio n o f th e o ffe n c e is a ttrib u ta b le to a n y n e g le c t on

th e p a rt o f a n y direc to r, m an ager, se cre ta ry o r o th e r of fice r,

o f th e co m pany, su ch direc to r, m an ager, secre ta ry or offic er

sh all al so be deem ed be guilty o f t hat off ence and sh all be

liable to be p ro ce eded a gain st a nd punis hed ac co rd in gly .

Expla nation :- For th e purp ose o f this se ct io n -

(a) “Company” means any body corporate and includes a firm or

other association of individuals, and

(b) “director” in relation to a firm means a Partner in the firm.

Special 7. There shall be a Special Tribunal for the purpose of enquiry
Tribunal

into any alleged act of land grabbing and trial of cases in

respect of the ownership and title to or lawiul possession of

the land grabbed and the court of District and Sessions Judge

having jurisdiction over the area shall be the Special Tribunal

for the purposes of this Act and shall include Additional

District and Sessions Judge having jurisdiction over the area.


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Special 8. (1) Every Special Tribunal shall have power to try all cases

Tribunals and

arising out of any alleged act of land grabbing, or with

their powers
and functions. respect to the ownership and title to, or lawful possession of

the land grabbed whether before or after the commencement

of this Act.

(2) The Special Tribunal may, either suo-moto, or on application

made by any aggrieved person or any officer or authority,

take cognizance of and try every case arising out of any

alleged act o f land grabbing, or with respect to the ownership

and title to or lawful possession of, the land grabbed, whether

before or after the commencement of this Act and pass such

orders (including orders by way of interim directions) as it

deem s fit.

(3 ) The Specia l Tribunal, fo r th e p urp ose o f takin g cogniz ance o f

th e cas e, consi der th e lo ca tion, or exte nt or valu e o f th e land

alleged to hav e been gra bbed or o f th e su bst antial nat ure o f

th e ev il in volv ed in th e in te re st o f ju sti ce re quired an d an y

oth er re le van t m at te r in volv ed in the c ase :

Pro vid ed th at th e Spec ia l T ribunal sh all no t take

cogniz ance o f any su ch ca se w ithout hearing t he petitioner or

the aggrieved person, as the case may be.

(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Civil A c [,]

Procedure, 1908 and the Code o f Criminal Procedure, 1973 of 1

Act

any case in respect of an alleged act of land grabbing or the o [f j ]

determination of questions of title and ownership to or lawful

possession of, any land grabbed, under this Act, shall, subject

to the provisions of this Act, be triable in the Special Tribunal :

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Pro vid ed th at if in the opin io n o f the Specia l Tribunal ,

any application file d befo re it is prinia fa cie fr iv olo us or

vexatious, it shall reject such application with ou t any further

enquiry.

(5) The Special Tribunal shall, by notification to be affixed in the

office premises of the Special Tribunal, office notice Boards

of the Deputy Commissioner’s office and the office of the

concerned Circle office under whose jurisdiction the land

alleged to have been grabbed is situated, specify the fact of

taking cognizance of the case under this Act. Such

notification shall state that any objection which may be

received by the Special Tribunal front any person including

the custodian of evacuee property within the period specified

therein will be considered by it:

Provided that where the custodian of the evacuee

property objects to the Special Tribunal taking cognizance of

the case, the Special. Tribunal shall not proceed further with

the cage in regard to such property :

Provided also that th e Special Tribunal sh all cau se a

notice o f tak ing cogniza nce o f the case under this Act served

on a ny per so n know n or b elieved to be in te re st ed in th e land .,

after a pre lim in ary en quiry to sa tisfy it self a bout th e per so n

likely to be in te re sted in th e la nd. A ny obje ction re ceiv ed by

th e Specia l Tribunal from any pers on w ithin th e pe riod

sp eci fied will be c onsi dere d by it.

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(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal

Procedure, 1973, it shall also be lawful for the Special Act 2

of 1974

Tribunal to frame charge and try all offences punishable

under this Act, if in the opinion of the Special Tribunal it is

so necessary after delivery of its decision and order in the

Civil liability where prima-facie it appears to the Special

Tribunal that a particular person or a group of persons are

responsible for commission of an offence of land grabbing

punishable under this Act.

(7) Every finding of the Special Tribunal in a trial under this

section with regard to any alleged act of land grabbing,

ownership and title to, or possession o f the land grabbed shall

be conclusive proof of the fact of land grabbing, and of the

persons who committed such land grabbing, and every

Judgement of the Special Tribunal with regard to the

determination of title and ownership to or lawful possession

of any grabbed land shall be binding on all persons having

interest in such land.

###### (8) Every case under sub-section (I) shall be disposed of by the

Special Tribunal as far as possible within a period of twelve

months from the date o f institution of the case before it and a

proceeding under sub sectrion ( 6 ) shall be disposed of as far

as possible within a period of six months from the date of

framing of the charges against the person or persons

responsible for alleged commission or abetment of the

offence punishable under this Act.


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(9) It shall be lawful for the Special Tribunal to pass such order

as it may deem fit in the interest of justice. It may award

compensation in terms of money for wrongful possession of

the grabbed land which shall not be less than an amount of

equivalent to the market value of the land so grabbed as on

the date of the order and the profits accrued from the land,

payable by the land grabber to the owner o f the grabbed land

and may direct redelivery of possession of such land to its

rightful owner. The amount of compensation and profits, so

awarded and cost of redelivery, if any, shall be recovered as

an arrear of land revenue in case the Government is the

owner, or as a decree of a Civil Court in any other cases. It

may also impose such punishment to a land grabber for

Commission of any offence punishable under this Act.

Special 9. Save as expressly provided in this Act, the provisions of the A [ <].

Tribunal to

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 and the Code of Criminal 1908

have the powers

and Act

of the Civil Procedure, 1973, in so far as they are not inconsistent with 2 of
Court and the

the provisions of this Act, shall apply to the proceedings ^7 4.

Court of
Session. before the Special Tribunal mutatis mutandis and for the

purpose of the provisions of the said enactment, Special

Tribunal shall be deemed to be a Civil Court, or as the case

may be, a Court o f Session and shall have all the powers of a

Civil Court and a Court of Session and the person conducting

a procecution before the Special Tribunal shall be deemed to

be a Public Prosecutor.


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Procedure to be 10. (1) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, a Special Tribunal
followed by

shall, in the trial of case relating to any alleged act of land

Special
Tribunal grabbing, or with respect to the ownership and title to, or

lawful possession of the land grabbed, whether before or after

the commencement of this Act, which involves civil liability,

follow the procedure prescribed in the Code of Civil Act 5 of

1908

Procedure, 1908 and in the trial of cases relating to alleged

offence of land grabbing involving punishment prescribed

under this Act, follow the procedure o f the Code of Criminal Act 2 of

1974

Procedure, 1973.

(2) After-taking cognizance of a case under sub-section (2) of

section 8, the Special Tribunal shall try and dispose of the
civil liability at first and decide and pass order as to the tiitle,
ownership and lawful possession o f the grabbed land whether

before or after the commencement of this Act as it deems fit.
After completion of the civil proceeding, if the Special
Tribunal decides and pass order that the land in question has
been grabbed, the Special Tribunal may order that the

possession of the land be restored to the person whose land
has been grabbed after evicting the land grabber or any other
person who may be in possession of the land, if necessary by
use o f such force as may be required for the purpose :

Provided that execution of the order for restoration of

the possession of the grabbed land shall not be made till
expiration of the period of appeal provided under section 13

of the Act. If within a reasonable time after the expiry of the
appeal period no order o f stay of execution has been received
from the Special Court or produced before the Special
Tribunal by any of the parties to the case, the Special
Tribunal shall proceed for execution of its order and
simultaneously frame charge against the land grabber to
prosecute him for the alleged act of land grabbing :


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Provided further that in the event of preferring an

appeal from the order of the Special Tribunal before the

Special Court where stay of execution of the order has been

made by the Special Court, the Special Tribunal shall not

further proceed in the proceeding to prosecute the land

grabber till final disposal of the appeal by the Special Cou rt:

Provided also that after hearing the appeal, if the

Special Court decides the appeal against the alleged land

grabber, in that event charge for prosecution against the land

grabber shall be framed by the Special Tribunal and proceed

with the criminal proceeding for prosecution of the land

grabber.

(3) The evidence admitted during the civil proceeding may be

made use of while trying the criminal proceeding in addition

to the additional evidence adduced by the parties in the

criminal proceeding.

(4) Any person, accused of land grabbing or the abetment thereof

before the Special Tribunal, shall be a competent witness for

the defence and may give evidence on oath in disproof of the

charge made against him, or any person charged together

with him in the criminal proceeding :

Provided that he shall not be called as a witness except

on his own request in writing or his failure to give evidence i

shall be made a subject of any comment by any of the parties

or the Special Tribunal or give rise to any presumption

against himself or any person charged together with him at

the same proceeding.


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(5) The Special Tribunal shall, before passing an order under this

Act give to the land grabber an opportunity of making his

representation or o f adducing evidence, if any, in this regard,

and consider every such representation and evidence.

Burden of proof 11. Where in any proceeding under this Act, a land is alleged to

have been grabbed, and such land is prima-facie proved to be

the land owned by the Government or by a private person, the

Special Tribunal shall presume that the person who is alleged

to have grabbed the land is a land-grabber and the burden of

proving that the land has not been grabbed by him shall be on

such person.

Transfer of 12. Any case pending before any Court or other authority
cases

immediately before coining into force of this Act which

involves any act of land grabbing, shall stand transferred to

the Special Tribunal within whose jurisdiction the alleged

grabbed land is situated.

Appeal 13. (1) Any person, aggrieved by the Judgement and order (not being

an interlocutory order) of the Special Tribunal, may prefer an

Appeal before the Special Court on any question of law or o f

fact. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in

Act No.

the Limitation Act, 1963, an appeal under this section shall

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be preffered it within a period of sixty days from the date of of

1963.

passing of the Judgement and order by the Special Tribunal.

(2) Separate Appeal shall lie against the respective Judgement

and order of the Special Tribunal passed in respect of the

civil proceeding as well as in crimianl proceedings

respectively under this Act and the period of sixty days shall

bd reckoned from the respective date of Judgement and order

passed in each of the proceedings.


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(3) The Special Court shall dispose of the appeal within a period

of six months from the date of filing the appeal and forward a

copy of the order to the concerned Special Tribunal under

whose jurisdiction the grabbed land is situated for Lheir

taking necessary action, if any.

Constitution of 14. (1) The Government shall, for the purpose of entertaining and
the Special

disposal of appeals arising out of any Judgement and order o f

Court

the Special Tribunal, by notification published in the Official

Gazette, Constitute a Special Court for the whole o f the State

of Assam.

(2) A Special Court shall consist of a Chairman and two other

members to be appointed by the Government.

(3) The Chairman shall be a person who was or has been a Judge

of the High Court and of the other two members, one shall be

a person who was or has been a District and Sessions Judge

(hereinafter referred to as Judicial Member) and other sliall

be a person who was or has been a member of the Indian

Administrative Service holding or has held a post not below

the rank of Secretary to the Government with Special

Knowledge or experience in revenue matters (hereinafter

referred to a Revenue M em ber):

Provided that the appointment of a person who was a

Judge of the High Court as the Chairman or a District and

Sessions Judge as a member respectively of the Special Court

shall be made after consultation w(Jh the Chief Justice of the

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Gauhati High C ou rt:


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Provided further that where a sitting Judge of the High

Court is to be appointed as a Chairman such appointment

shall be made after nomination by tire Chief Justice of the

Gauhati High Court with the concurrence of the Chief Justice

of India.

(4) The salary and allowances of the Chairman and the members

of the Special Court shall be such as may be prescribed.

(5) No person shall be retained as a Chairman of the Special

Court after he has attained the age of sixty five years and as a

member after he has attained the age o f sixty two years.

(6) The Chairman or other members shall hold office as such for

a term'of 3 (three) years from the date on which he enters his

office :

Provided that the Government may re-appoint the

Chairman or any. other members after expiry of the original

term of three years unless such Chairman or member has not

attained the age of sixty five years or sixty two years

respectively:

Provided further that while making re-appointment of

Chairman or any other member, the provisions provided

under the provises o f sub-section (3) shall be followed.

(7) The quorum to constitute a meeting of the Bench of the

Special Court shall be two.

Special Court to 15. (a) The Special Court may, by notification published in the

make

Official Gazette^ make regulations, not inconsistent with the

regulations.

provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder, relating

<
to the procedure to be followed for the conduct of the cases

and for regulating the manner of taking decisions.


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(b) The Special Court may cause a public notice of the substance

of such regulations for the information of the general public.

(c) All regulations made by the Special Court under this section

shall, as soon as may be after they are made, be laid before

the Assam Legislative Assembly while it is in session, for a

total period of not less than fourteen days, which may be

comprised in one session or two or more successive sessions

and shall unless some later date is appointed, take effect from

their publication in the Official Gazette subject to such

modification or annulments as the Assam Legislative

Assembly may, during the said period agree to make, so

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however that any such modification or annulment shall be

without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done

thereunder.

Special Court to 16. Save as expressly provided in the provisions of the Code of Act 5
have the powers of 1908

Civil Procedure, 1908 and the Code of Criminal Procedure,

of the Civil and Act
Court and the 1973, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions 2 of
Criminal Court. 1974

of this Act, shall apply to the proceeding before the Special

Court mutatis mutandis and for the purposes of the provisions

of this Act, the Special Court shall be deemed to be a Civil

Court, or as the case may be, a Criminal Court and shall have

all the powers of a Civil Court and a Criminal Court

competent to hear and dispose of Appeal. The persons

conducting a prosecution before the Special Court shall be

deemed to be a Public Prosecutor,

Staff of the 17. (1) The Chairman of the Special Court may appoint officers aud
Special Court

other employees required to assist the Special Court in the

discharge of its functions under this Act.


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(2) The categories of officers and other employees who may be

appointed under sub-section (1), their salaries allowances and

other conditions of service, and the administrative powers of

the Chairman of the Special Court shall be such as may be

prescribed, after consultation with the Chairman.

Persons acting 18. Any person acting under this Act shaU be deemed to be a

under the Act to

public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian

be public
servants. Penal Code.

Protection of 19. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie

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persons acting

against any officer or employees of tire Special Court or any of 1860

in good faith.

officer of the Government for anything which is in good

faith done, or intended to be done under this Act or the rules

made there under..

Prohibition o f 20. Any transaction relating to-an alienation of a grabbed land or

alienation o f

any part thereof by way of sale, lease, gift, exchange,

grabbed land.

settlement, surrender, usufructuary mortgage or otherwise, or

any partition effected or a trust created in respect of such land

which has taken place whether before or after the

commencement of this Act shall, except, ordered by the

Special Court or Special Tribunal, be null and void.

Assam

Functions under 21. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the Assam

Act 21

certain Acts to

Board of Revenue constituted under the Assam Board of of 1962

continue.

Revenue Act, 1962 and Officers authorised under the Assam

Regulat
ion 1 of

Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886 and the Rules framed

1886

thereunder, the Assam Fixation of Ceiling on Land Holding Assam

Act 1 of

Act, 1956, the Assam (Temporarily Settled Areas) Tenancy

1957

Act, 1971, shall continue to’discharge their functions under

Assam

the respective Act. Act 23

of 1971


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Power to make 22. (1) The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,

m l e s
' make rules for carrying out all or any of the purposes of this

Act.

(2) All rules made by the State Government under this Act shall,

as soon as may be after they are made, be laid before the

Assam Legislative Assembly, while it is in session, for a total,

period of not less than fourteen days which may be

comprised in one session or two or more successive sessions,

and shall, unless some later date is appointed, take effect

from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette

subject ' to such modifications or annulments as the

Legislative Assembly may, during the said period agree to

make, so however, that any such modification or annulment

shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything

previously done thereunder.

MOU.D, A. HAQUE,

Secretary to the Govt, of Assam,

Legislative Department, Dispur.

Guw ah atiPrinted and Published by the Dy. Director (P.&S.), Directorate of Ptg. & Sty, Assam, Guwahati-?!

(Ex-Gazette) No. 8 19-600+30+10-18-11-2011.


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