The Assam Consolidation of Holdings (Amendment) Act, 1966

T he 8th J uly 1966

No .LJL.9J65J22.- T he following Act of the Assam Legislative Assembly
which received the assent of the President is hereby published for general
information.

ASSAM ACT XXI OF 1966

(Received the assen t of the President on the 1st J uly, 196~

THE ASSAM CONSOLIDATION OF HOLDINGS (A.\1ENDMENT)
ACT, 1966.

[ Published in the Assam Gazette, Extraordinary, dated the 9th J uly 1966]

An

Act

to amend the Assam Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1960.

Prcamule, Whereas it is expedient to amend the Assam Conso- Assam Act
Iidation of Holdings Act, 1960, hereinafter call ed th e X I X of

1961.principal Act, in the manner hereinafter appearing;
It is hereby enacted in the Seventeenth Year of the

Republic of India as follows :-



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Short title 1. (1) This Act may be called the Assam Consolida-
and extent. tion of Holdings (Arnend rnent) Act, 1966.

(2) It shall have the like extent as the principal
Act.

Retrospee- 2. The amendments made by this Act shall be deemed
tive 0fer~- and always to have been deemed to have formed part
tion 0 t e of the principal Act, as if the principal Act had beenAct.

enacted as so amended with effect from the date the
assent to the principal Act was first published in the
Official Gazette.

Am e nd-
ment of Sec- 3. In Section 3 of the pr incipal Act :­
tion 3 of
Assam Act
XIX of 1961.

(1) the )irst proviso shall be deleted ;

(2) in the second proviso, the word "further"
occurring between the words "Provided" and "that"
shall be deleted.

Am e nd-
ment of SeC. 4. In Section 5 of the principal Act :­
tion 5 of
~ssam Act
XIX of 1961.

(I) the second proviso to clause (a) shall be
deleted;

(2) after clause (a), the following shall he inserted
as clause (aa), namely:-

"(a'l) setting apart of land, where necessary,
for public purposes, which shall
include roads or village paths, play
grounds, schools , burial a nd cremation
grounds , grazing grounds, village
tanks and wells; ..

(3) after clause (d), the following shall be inserted
as clause (dd), namely:-

"(dd) wherever Co-operative Farming Societies
are started the land pooled into the,
society shall, as far as practicable, be
consolidated into one or two compact
blocks ;"

Amendment 5. Til Section 6 of the principal Act:-
of Section 6
of Assam
Act XIX of
J961. '



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(1) the bracket an d figure "(l)" occurring after
the figure "6" at the beginning of th e first
sentence shall be deleted ;

• (2) in clause (b), between the words "plots
therein," and "as" , the word s "including
the setting apart of land for the purposes
referred to in clause (aa) of Section 5,"
shall be inserted ;

(3) the existing item (iii) of clause (c) shall be
renumbered as item (iv) and the following
shall be inserted as item (iii), namely:-

"(iii) the amount of compensation, if any,
whic h in the opinion of the Consolida­
tion Officer, is payable to or by a
person ;"

I nsertion of 6. A fter Section 12 of
~ection 12A following shall be inserted as
In Assam .
Act X IX of
1961.

the principal Act, the
Section l 2A, namely r-s-

" Reserva­
ti on of lan d
for pub lic
purposes.

12A. (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
in any law for the tim e being in force or
any custom, or any agreement or con­
tract, expressed or implied, it shall be
lawful for the Consolidation Officer,
in consultation with th e Consolidation
Advisory Com mittee constituted under
Section 4, to do the following, namely:-

(a) to direct that any land specifically reserved
for any public purpose shall cease to
be so reserved and to assign any other
land in lieu thereof ;

(b) if in any area for which a scheme is
un der preparation, any land is reserved
for any p ublic purpose including exten­
sion of village sites, or if the land so
reserved is considered inadequate; to



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assign any other land for such purpose
and to effect a proport ionate reduction
of the area of all holdings of the village!
villages for the benefit of which such
reservation has been made.

(2) Where a proportiona te reduction in area in
all the holdings of a village has been effected •
under sub-section (1), the State Govern ment sha ll pay
to every person affected thereby compensation in
respect of th e land covered by such reduction at
the market value of the land at the date of the
publication of the notificati on under Section 3,"

U. TAHBILDAR,
Dy. Secy . to the Govt, of Assam,

Law Department.