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The Orissa Prevention of Land Encroachment Act, 1972

The Orissa Prevention of Land Encroachment Act, 1972

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The Odisha Prevention of Land Encroachment Act, 1972, regulates the unauthorized occupation of government land in the Indian state of Odisha. It applies to any person occupying public properties, including roads, water reservoirs, communal spaces, and municipal lands without proper legal authorization. This legislation matters because it empowers revenue officers to maintain public order, evict illegal encroachers, and levy financial penalties. Crucially, the act balances strict enforcement with social rehabilitation by allowing authorities to settle occupied land with poor, landless, or homesteadless families instead of evicting them, thereby providing secure housing and livelihood opportunities to the state's most vulnerable residents.

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  1. 0. Preamble
  2. 01. Meaning of the term Encroachment: Explained: AIR 1962 MAD
  3. 1. Orissa Gazette Extraordinary No. 15-D/04.01.1972-Notfn. No. 150 L.A. - D/
  4. 2. Property of Government :– Subject to the provisions of any
  5. 3. Transfer of Government Property to a Municipality will take only after actual Transfer: 42 (1976) CLT 174.
  6. 4. Levy of assessment of land unauthority occupied :– Any person
  7. 5. Decisions as to the amount of assessment shall not be
  8. 6. Liability of person unauthorisedly occupying land to penalty:
  9. 7. New Section inserted by Orissa Act 13 of 1982.
  10. 8. Stay of Construction :
  11. 9. Prior notice to person in unauthorised occupation :– Before
  12. 10. Power to make rules :– (1) The State Government may, subject
  13. 11. Recovery of assessment and penalty as public demand :
  14. 12. See AIR 1942 Madras 244.
  15. 13. Powers are to be exercised within a reasonable period for Suo Motu Revision: 72 (1991) CLT 49.
  16. 14. CLT 49.
  17. 15. Delegation of powers and duties of Collector, Sub-Divisional
  18. 16. Bar of suits and proceedings :– Not suit or other legal
  19. 17. Protection of action to be taken under this Act :– No suit,
  20. 18. Act.
  21. 19. Repeal of Orissa Ordinance No. 7 of 1971 :– (1) The Orissa
  22. Schedule II. Schedule II

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