Chapter XI APPEALS AND REVISION.

The Land Commissioner may call for and examine the record of any authorized officer in respect of any proceeding under section 9 (3), 12, 13, 14 (1), 14 (2), 17 (3), 18 (4), 50 (5) or 50 (9) or the record of any proceeding under sub-section (2) of section 54 and in respect of any other proceeding under this Act not being a proceeding in respect of which a suit or an appeal to the Land Tribunal is provided by this Act to satisfy himself as to the regularity of such proceeding or the correctness, legality or propriety of any decision or order passed thereon; and if, in any case, it appears to the Land Commissioner that any such proceeding, decision or order should be modified, annulled, reversed or remitted for reconsideration, he may pass orders accordingly : Provided that the Land Commissioner shall not pass any order prejudicial to any party unless he has been given a reasonable opportunity of being heard.

Subject to the provisions of section 79, every Land Tribunal shall be deemed to be a court subordinate to the High Court for the purposes of section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Central Act V of 1908), and its orders shall be liable to revision by the High Court under the provisions of that section.

The High Court, the Land Tribunal or the Land Commissioner may stay the execution of any decision or order pending the exercise of its or his powers under this Chapter.

Penalty for furnishing false roturn or informatioo.

If any person, on or after the notified date, voluntarily accepts any possessory mortgage any land which, if added to any land, if any, already held by him by ownership, possessory mortgage, lease or otherwise, would exceed the ceiling area, he shall be punishable with fine not exceeding one thousand rupees.

If any person wilfully contravenes any lawful order passed under this Act or obstructs any person from lawfully taking possession of any land under any of the provisions of this Act, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.

(1) If the person committing an offence under this Act is a company, the company as well as every person in charge of, and responsible to, the company for the conduct of its business at the time of the commission of the offence shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly : Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall render any such person liable to any punishment if he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge or that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where an offence under this Act has been committed by a company and it is proved that the offence has been committed with the consent or connivance of, any director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company, such director, manager, secretary or other officer shall also be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section-(a) "company" means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals, and (b) "director" in relation to a firm means a partner in the firm.

(1) No court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this Act except on complaint in writing made by the authorized officer or any officer empowered by him by special order. (2) No court inferior to that of a Presidency Magistrate or a Magistrate of the first class shall try any offence punishable under this Act.

(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) and section 94-A the Government may, after taking into consideration the objects specified in the preamble, make rules providing for the manner in which any land acquired by the Government under this Act shall be disposed of. (2) (a) In the disposal of the land acquired by the Government under this Act, the Government shall give preference to any person who is completely dispossessed of his holding, or whose extent of holding is reduced below three acres of dry land or one and a half acres of wet land held by him partly as cultivating tenant and partly as owner or wholly as cultivating tenant, by virtue of the provisions of this Act. Explanation.--Where a person holds both dry and wet land, then, for the purpose of calculating the extent of his holding under this clause, one acre of wet land shall be deemed to be equal to two acres of dry land.

Conversion of one kind of land into another not to affect ceiling area in csrtaia cases.

The Government may appoint any member of the Board of Revenue as Land Commissioner for the State to exercise such powers and discharge such duties as are assigned to him by or under this Act.

The Government may issue such orders and directions of a general character as they may deem necessary in respect of any matter relating to the powers and duties of the authorized officer, the Land Board and the Land Commissioner. The authorized officer, the Land Board, and the Land Commissioner shall give effect to all such orders and directions.

(1) On the application of any of the parties or of his own motion- (a) the Collector of the district may at any stage after giving the parties a reasonable opportunity of being heard, transfer any application or other proceeding under this Act pending before any authorized officer in the district for disposal to any other authorized officer in the same district. (b) the Land Commissioner may at any stage after giving the parties a reasonable opportunity of being heard, transfer any application or other proceeding under this Act pending before any authorized officer in any district for disposal to any other authorized officer in any other district. (2) Where any application or proceeding has been transferred under sub-section (1), the authorized officer to whom such transfer is made may, subject to any special directions given in the order of transfer, either hold the inquiry de novo or proceed from the stage at which the said application or other proceeding stood when it was transferred.

The authorized officer, the Land Commissioner or the Land Board shall furnish to the Government such returns, statistics, accounts and other information as the Government may from time to time require.

(1) For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act, the authorized officer may, by notice, require any person to furnish any information relating to the extent of land held by such person, the number of members of the family, if any, of such person, and such other particulars as may be prescribed. The person aforesaid shall furnish the information to the authorized officer within such time as may be specified in the notice or within such further time not exceeding thirty days as the authorized officer may, in his discretion, allow. (2) (a) Where any person on whom notice under subsection (1) has been served fails to furnish the information within the time specified in that notice or within the further time allowed by the authorized officer under sub-section (1), the authorized officer may obtain, in such manner as may be prescribed, the necessary information either by himself or through such agency as he deems fit. (b) The authorized officer shall, as soon as may be after obtaining the information under clause (a), give to the person concerned a reasonable opportunity of making his representation and of adducing evidence, if any, in respect of such information and consider any such representation and evidence and pass such orders as he deems fit.

The costs of, and incidental to, all proceedings before the authorized officer, Land Commissioner, Land Board, Land Tribunal or other authority shall be in his or its' discretion.

The authorized officer or any person acting under his orders may at any time enter upon any land but not a dwelling-house, with such other officers or persons as he considers necessary and make a survey and take measurements thereof or do any other act which he considers necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

The court-fee payable in respect of-(a) any suit under sub-section (3) of section 11, shall be twenty-five rupees ;(b) any appeal to the Land Tribunal undar sction 78, shall be five rupees ;(c) any appeal to the High Court under section 79, shall be twenty-five rupees ;(d) any application for revision by the Land Tribunal under scctiort 81 or for revision by the Land Commissioner under section 82, shall be one rupee ;(e) any application for revision by the High Court under section 83, shall be ten rupees ;(f) any other case, shall be such fee as may be prescribed.

(1) The Government may make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act.(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for-(a) all matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed ;(b) the manner of service of notice under this Act;(c) the manner of giving reasonable opportunity or of adducing evidence under this Act;(e) the place at which and the manner in which the draft statement under sub-section (5) of section 10 and the final statement under section 12 or 14 may be published ;(f) the manner of service of a copy of the final statement under section 12 or 14;(g) the manner of publication of a proclamation under clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 18 ;(h) the qualifications which shall be possessed by the members nominated under clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 24 ;(i) the manner in which the draft assessment roll may be published under sub-section (3) of section 50;(j) the manner of apportionment of the amount payable under this Act among the persons claiming interest in such amount ;(k) the procedure to be followed by the authorised officer under this Act ;(l) the terms and conditions of service of the Chairman and members of the Land Board ;(m) the manner in which, and the officer by whom, fair rent shall be ascertained for the purposes of this Act;(n) the circumstances under, and the conditions subject to, which, and the authority or officer before whom any amount payable under this Act may be kept in deposit ;(o) the manner of payment of the amount so deposited to the persons entitled thereto ;(p) the manner of communicating to the party concerned every decision or order in any proceeding against which an appeal or revision is provided for by this Act.(q) the period within which an application, for revision under section 82 may be presented.

(1) All rules made under this Act shall be published in the Fort St. George Gazette and, unless they are expressed to come into force on a particular day, shall come into force on the day on which they are so published.(2) Every rule made under this Act shall, as soon as possible after it is made, be placed on the Table of both Houses of the legislature, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so placed or the next session, both Houses agree in making any modification in any such rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.

Salem . . . . 133.

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I 83. Siru malai.

186, Pcpiyavelampatti,

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