Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Authority

Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Authority

1. (1) The Appropriate Government may, for the purpose of providing speedy disposal of disputes relating to land acquisition, compensation, rehabilitation and resettlement, establish, by notification, one or more Authorities to be known as "the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Authority" to exercise jurisdiction, powers and authority conferred on it by or under this Act.
2. (2) The Appropriate Government shall specify in the notification referred to in sub-section
3. (1) the areas within which the Authority may exercise jurisdiction for entertaining and deciding the references made to it under section 64 or applications made by the affected persons under this Act.
4. (3) The Authority shall consist of one person only (hereinafter referred to as the Presiding Officer) to be appointed, by notification, by the Appropriate Government.
5. (4) A person shall not be qualified for appointment as the Presiding Officer of an Authority unless,—
   • (a) he is or has been a District Judge; or
   • (b) he is a qualified legal practitioner of not less than seven years' standing.
6. (5) The Presiding Officer of an Authority shall be appointed by the Appropriate Government in consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court in whose jurisdiction the Authority is proposed to be established.
7. (6) The terms and conditions of service of the Presiding Officer shall be such as may be prescribed.
8. (7) The Appropriate Government shall provide the Authority with such officers and employees as that Government may think fit.
9. (8) The officers and employees of the Authority shall discharge their functions under the general superintendence of the Presiding Officer.
10. (9) The administrative expenses of the Authority, including the salaries, allowances and pensions payable to the Presiding Officer and other officers and employees of the Authority, shall be defrayed out of the Consolidated Fund of the State or of the Union territory, as the case may be.