Preamble

THE NAGALAND OWNERSHIP AND TRANSFER OF LAND AND ITS RESOURCES ACT, 1990

(THE NAGALAND ACT NO. 1 OF 1993)

Received the assent of the Governor of Nagaland on 27-5-93 and published in the Nagaland Gazette extraordinary Dated 6th July, 1993,

An

Act.

to provide, in the public interest, for the ownership and transfer of land and its resources in the State of Nagaland, for the imposition of tax on mineral rights, for the further amendment of law relating to acquisition of land and its resources in Nagaland, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. WHEREAS by virtue of the provisions of Clause (1) (a) (iv) of Article 371-A of the constitution, no Act of Parliament in respect of the ownership and transfer of land and its resources shall apply to the State of Nagaland unless the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland, by a resolution, so decides AND WHEREAS no such resolution has been passed by the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland AND WHEREAS in the absence of any such resolution, it has become necessary for the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland to regulate by law, the ownership and transfer of land and its resources in the State of Nagaland, IT IS, THEREFORE, enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Nagaland in the Forty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows: