section 40
Power to make rules.
The Jammu and Kashmir Agrarian Reforms Act, 1976General197647 sections
Statutory text
- (1) The Government may make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act.
- (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely :––
- (a) procedure for ascertainment of the person holding, or deemed by this Act to have held, land in personal cultivation ;
- (b) procedure for making records in respect of lands held in excess of the ceiling area and the extent, the identity and the nature of rights held in such land ;
- (c) ascertainment, determination and disposal of the excess land or interest therein acquired under this Act ;
- (d) the procedure for the disposal of surplus land, or interest therein, under section 15 ;
- (e) the matter in which option of selecting land under this Act is exercised ;
- (f) the classification, distribution, withdrawal and transfer of cases or classes of cases among various officers and authorities under this Act ;
- (g) the manner in which extinguishment and acquisition of rights in land by or under this Act are to be effected ;
- (h) the preparation of the forms of any notice, return, or other document whatsoever ;
- (i) procedure regarding appeals and revisions and matters connected therewith ;
- (j) procedure for resumption and other proceedings and enquiries under this Act ; and
- (k) matters other than those referred to in the foregoing clauses which are expressly required by this Act to be prescribed.
- (3) Any rule made under this Act may provide that contravention thereof shall be punished by a Revenue Officer with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees.
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