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No. WB(Part-III)/2023/SAR-12

Registered No. WB/SC-247

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MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2023 [SAKA 1945

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PART III—Acts of the West Bengal Legislature.

GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL

LAW DEPARTMENT Legislative

NOTIFICATION

No. 355-L.-10th April, 2023.—The following Act of the West Bengal Legislature, having been assented to by the Governor, is hereby published for general information:—

West Bengal Act VII of 2023

THE WEST BENGAL LAND REFORMS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2023.

[Passed by the West Bengal Legislature.] [Assent of the Governor was first published in the Kolkata Gazette, Extraordinary, of the 10th April, 2023.]

An Act to amend the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955.

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955, for West Ben. Act X

of 1956.

the purpose of incorporation of the word "township" in the second proviso to section 14Y and also for improving ease of doing business and hassle free transfer/mortgage of land and for inviting more investment and also for providing an option for the conversion of leasehold land to freehold land and/or for settlement of Government non-agricultural land and leased out land and to provide necessary measures to hold such freehold ceiling surplus land in the manner hereinafter appearing;

2 THE KOLKATA GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, APRIL 10, 2023 [PART III

The West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Act, 2023.

(Sections 1 —5.)

It is hereby enacted in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India, by the Legislature of West Bengal, as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be called the West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Act, 2023.