Punjab Land Preservation Act, 1900
The Punjab Land Preservation Act, 1900
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This Act provides for the conservation of soil and prevention of erosion in Himachal Pradesh. The Government can notify areas, and then regulate, restrict or prohibit activities such as clearing land, cutting trees, grazing and quarrying there. It can also require works to be carried out within a fixed time. The Deputy Commissioner can mark the boundaries of notified areas, and no compensation is payable for the restrictions.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Notification of Areas
- 4. Power to regulate, restrict or prohibit, by general or special order within notified areas, certain matters
- 5. Power in certain cases to regulate, restrict or prohibit, by special order, within notified areas, certain further matters
- 5A. Power to require execution of works and taking of measures
- 6. Necessity for regulation, restriction or prohibition to be recited in the order under sections 4, 5 or
- 7. Proclamation of regulations, restrictions and prohibitions and admission claims for compensation for rights which are restricted or prohibited
- 7A. Power to fix time within which work to be executed, etc
- 8. Action when State Government considers it desirable to take measures to regulate the beds of chos. Vesting of such beds in the Government
- 9. Effect of notification to suspend or extinguish private rights in the area notified under section 8
- 10. Power of Deputy Commissioner to delimit the bed and to decide what constitutes such bed. Power to take possession of bed when vested in the State Government
- 11. Bar of compensation for acts done under sections 8, 9 or 10
- 12. Condition as to sale of land acquired under the Act and obligation of Local Government to keep account of moneys expended on such land
- 13. Power to enter upon, survey and demarcate local areas notified under section 3 or section 8
- 14. Inquiries into claims and awards thereupon
- 15. Method of awarding compensation and effect of such award
- 16. Record-of-rights in respect of notified areas
- 17. Mode of proclaiming notifications and of serving notices, order and processes issued under the Act
- 18. Appeal, review and revision
- 19. Penalty for offences
- 20. Application of provisions of Act VII of
- 21. Copy of decrees affecting land to be forwarded to Deputy Commissioner
- 22. Power to make rules
- 33. Saving of previous insolvency proceedings
- 39. Indian Penal Code to apply to offences committed previous to 1st January, 1862
- 39A. Power to establish system of village watchmen and municipal watchmen, and to make rules
- 39B. Obligation to assist watchmen and headmen
- 39C. Power to direct local taxation for payment of police enrolled under Act V of 1861
- 39D. Notice of taxes proposed to be levied
- 39E. Power to fix rates of tax
- 39F. Power to make rules for collection of taxes
- 39G. Validation Clause
- 40. State Government may confer powers of Police Officers
- 41. Trackers may call for assistance in carrying on tracks
- 42. Penalty for withholding assistance or conniving at offence or escape
- 43. Control of slaughter of kine and sale of beef
- 44. Control of entry into towns of bands of armed men
- 45. Powers of Magistrate of District as to foreign vagrants
- 46. Surveillances etc., of band failing to comply with Magistrate's order
- 47. Crossing of streams on buoys or skins
- 48. Use of pasturage or natural product of Government land
- 49. Growing, selling, or keeping opium
- 50. Power to make rules as to matter mentioned in sections 43 to 48
- 50A. Conditions of validity of rules hereafter made under this Act
- 50B. Penalty for contravention of rules
- 51. Republication of rules and orders
- 52. Recovery of advances made by Government
- I. ENACTMENTS DECLARED TO BE IN FORCE
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