Bare Act
The Land Acquisition (Bombay Amendment) Act, 1938
The Land Acquisition (Bombay Amendment) Act, 1938, is a legislative amendment that modifies the operational framework of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, specifically for the Bombay region. It regulates how the government acquires private land for public use, focusing on administrative efficiency and procedural fairness. For the ordinary citizen, this Act is significant because it establishes clear rules for correcting clerical errors in compensation awards, empowers the State Government to review acquisition proceedings, and clarifies the delegation of authority to local officials like Tahsildars. It ensures that land acquisition processes are subject to oversight while providing mechanisms to rectify administrative mistakes.
- 1. Short title and commencement
- 2. Amendment of sections 28 and 34 of Act I of 1894
- 3. Substitution of section
- 4. Amendment of section 129 of Mah. XXXVII of 1966
- 5. Insertion of new section 12A in Act I of 1894
- 6. Insertion of new section 15A in Act I of 1894
- 7. Amendment of section 17 of Act I of 1894
- 8. Amendment of section 18 of Act I of 1894
- 9. Amendment of section 27 of Act I of 1894
- 10. Amendment of section 35 of Act I of 1894
- 11. Amendment of section 46 of Act I of 1894
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