Amendments to Bombay Agricultural Debtors Relief Act, 1947

The Bombay Agricultural Debtors Relief Act, 1947 (Bom. XXVIII of 1947). (1) In section 2 - (i) in clause (2), "Co-operative Society" shall mean a society registered under any of the provisions corresponding to those contained in the Bombay Co-operative Societies Act, 1926, or a society registered under the said Act; (ii) in clause (5) - (a) for the figures, letters and word "30th January 1940" wherever they occur the figures, letters and word "1st January 1949" shall be substituted; (b) the words "or the establishment of the Board concerned under the repealed Act," wherever they occur, shall be deleted. (2) in section 4 for sub-section (1), the following shall be substituted, namely : - "(1) Any debtor ordinarily residing in any local area or his creditor may make an application on or before the 31st January 1950 to the Court for adjustment of this debts". (3) In section 7 for the figures, letters and word "1st January 1938", the figures, letters and word "1st January 1949" shall be substituted. (4) In section 22 the following proviso shall be added at the end, namely : - "Provided further that where any amount due to a creditor is determined by a competent tribunal or authority under any law in force in the Baroda or Danta State relating to the conciliation or adjustment of the debts of the agriculturists corresponding to this Act, the amount so deter mined shall be binding on the parties." (5) In section 23 in the proviso after the figures "1879" the words "or any enactment corresponding thereto " shall be inserted. (6) In section 24, in sub-section (2), for the figures, Letters and word "1st August 1947" the figures, and word "1st February 1950" shall be substituted. (7) In section 25, - (i) in clause (i), the words and figures "or by a Board established under section 4 of the repealed Act" shall be deleted, (ii) in clause (ii), for the figures, letters, and words "16th day of February 1939" the figures, letters and word "1st January 1949" shall be substituted. (8) In section 32, in sub-section (2), - (i) for clause (c), the following clause shall be substituted, namely: - "(c) Loans given by resource societies or by persons authorised to advance loans under section 54 for the financing of crops or for seasonal finance,"; (ii) in the Explanation, the words "under the repealed Act " and the words "under this Act;" shall be deleted. (9) In section 56, in sub-section (1), - (i) for the words and figures "the Dokkhan Agriculturists Relief Act, 1879, by the Bombay Agricultural Debtors' Relief Act, 1939, the first mentioned Act", the words "any enactment corresponding to the Dekkhan Agriculturists' Belief Act, 1879, in force in the State" a be substituted ;