Punjab Jagirs Act, 1941
Punjab Jagirs Act, 1941
General194113 sections
This Act regulates the creation and management of jagirs, which are grants of land revenue or money made by the Central or State Government. It empowers the government to assign land revenue up to a specific monetary limit each year and outlines how these assignments should be expressed and collected. The legislation also addresses the succession of jagirdars by establishing rules of descent within families and allows the government to set conditions for these inheritances. Essentially, it provides a legal framework for managing state-created land revenue grants and their transfer between generations.
- 1. Short title
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Power of Central Government to create new Jagirs
- 4. Manner in which new assignments are to be expressed
- 5. Assessment and Collection
- 6. Grants made on or since 1st April, 1937
- 7. Rule of descent in family of Jagirdar
- 8. Power to answer certain conditions to assignments when the rule of descent is declared
- 9. Power to enforce rules and conditions under sections 7 and 8
- 10. Authority for Government to declare former Jagirs subjects to the rules, conditions and powers enacted by sections 7, 8 and 9
- 11. Powers of Courts
- 12. Savings
- 13. Repeals
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