The Jammu and Kashmir Agrarian Reforms Act, 1976
The Jammu and Kashmir Agrarian Reforms Act, 1976
General197647 sections
This Act regulates land ownership in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir by imposing a legal limit on the amount of agricultural land a family can possess, known as the ceiling area. It applies to landholders and their families, defining who constitutes a family for these calculations. The law aims to reduce inequality by redistributing surplus land to landless tenants and small farmers, ensuring that land is used for agriculture rather than hoarding. It also covers various types of land and defines terms like personal cultivation to determine ownership rights.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement.
- 2. Definitions.
- 3. Exceptions.
- 3-A. 3-A
- 4. Vesting in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir of rights in land not held in personal cultivation.
- 4-A. Cancellation of mutation.
- 5. Vesting of personally cultivated land in excess of ceiling area in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
- 6. Vesting of dwelling house and of the site thereunder and land appurtenant thereto in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir in certain cases.
- 7. Resumption for bona fide personal cultivation by ex-landlord.
- 8. Vesting of ownership rights in land in prospective owner.
- 9. Payment of rent by the tiller.
- 10. Mortgages of land.
- 11. Payment in lieu of extinguish-ment of rights in land.
- 12. Private agreement.
- 13. Restriction on utilization of land.
- 14. Optimum retainable area of land.
- 15. Disposal of surplus land.
- 16. Liability during interim period.
- 17. Omitted.
- 18. Appointment, superintendence and control of Revenue Officers.
- 19. Powers of Revenue Officers.
- 20. Special powers of officers.
- 21. Appeals and revisions.
- 22. Limitation for appeals.
- 23. Inquiries and proceedings to be judicial proceedings.
- 24. Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before a Revenue Officer.
- 25. Bar of jurisdiction of Civil Court.
- 26. Omitted.
- 27. Implementation of the provisions of the Act.
- 28. Rights and liabilities of prospective owner.
- 28-A. Prohibition on transfer of certain lands.
- 29. Indemnity.
- 30. Wrong or excess payment recoverable as arrears of land revenue.
- 31. Omitted.
- 32. Act to over-ride other laws.
- 33. Power to issue instructions.
- 34. Recoveries.
- 35. Transfer to defeat provisions of this law.
- 36. Declaration of restrictions imposed to be reasonable.
- 37. Penalty for failure to furnish or for furnishing false return.
- 38. Penalty for contravention of any lawful order.
- 39. Penalty for damaging land.
- 40. Power to make rules.
- 41. Succession.
- 42. Inapplicability.
- 43. Repeal.
- 44. Validation.
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