The Rajasthan Cash Jagirs Abolition Act, 1958

1. (1) This Act may be called the Rajasthan Cash Jagirs Abolition Act, 1958. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Rajasthan.

In this Act, unless the subject or context otherwise (a) "Cash jagir to which this Act applies" means any grant of money by way of jagir or otherwise, made or recognised to have been made by the Government in any part of the State or by the Ruler of a covenanting State without any consideration or in lieu of jagir resumed or abolished otherwise than under the Rajasthan Land Reforms and Resumption of Jagirs Act, 1952 (Rajasthan Act VI of 1952) or under the Ajmer Abolition of Intermediaries and Land Reforms Act, 1955 (Ajmer Act III of 1955) or under the Madhya Bharat Zamindari Abolition Act, Samvat 2008 (Madhya Bharat Act 13 of 1951) or under the Madhya Bharat Abolition of Jagirs Act, Samvat 2008 (Madhya Bharat Act 28 of 1951) or under the Bombay Merged Territories and Areas (Jagirs Abolition) Act, 1953 (Bombay Act )(XXXIX of 1954), and includes such grants made and enjoyed under any of the denominations or appellations specified in the First Schedule; and (b) "State" or "State of Rajasthan" means the new State of Rajasthan as formed by section 10 of the States Re-organisation Act, 1956 (Central Act 37 of 1956).

1. (1) Notwithstanding any-thing to the contrary contained in any law, sanad, order, custom or usage in force in any part of the State, all payments of money on account of cash jagirs, to which this Act applies, that were being made or enforced at the commencement of this Act, shall be discontinued on and from the 1st day of April, 1958 and all such cash jagirs shall stand abolished as from that day. (2) Notwithstanding such discontinuance and abolition the State Government shall continue to make payments by way of compensation in accordance with the scale laid down, in the Second Schedule, and the provisions of the Rajasthan Pensions Act, 1958, shall apply to such payments.

Where any cash jagir to which this Act applies is or has been subject to the rendering of any service, the liability of the holder for rendering such service shall cease and determine as from the 1st day of april, 1958.

The State Government may, from time to time, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

Nothing in this Act or in the rules made thereunder shall (1) grants of money made or recognised to have been made by the Government in any part of the State or by the Ruler of a covenanting State for charitable or religious purposes or partly for charitable and partly for religious purposes, or (2) such other grants of money as the State Government may, from time to time, by notification in the official Gazette, declare to be exempt from the provisions of this Act, and the provisions of the Rajasthan Pensions Act, 1958, shall apply to such exempted grants of money.

If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder, the State Government may, as occasion may require, make such orders or give such directions as may appear to it to be necessary for the purposes of removing the difficulty.