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Section 13. Status of the person to whom the land is granted and the condition on which the land is held.

THE ASSAM BHOODAN ACT, 1965 (SINGLE DOCUMENT)

Act no. 23 of 19661966RepealedAssam (State Act)

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by Assam Land and Revenue Regulation (Amendment) Act, 2022 (named as the Act repealing it in the Assam Legislative Department's list of repealed Acts, alphabetical_repealed_act_final.pdf; the list gives no date); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

13. (1) The person to whom any land is granted under sub-section (1) of section 7 shall have,- (a) Where the interest of the donor was that of a proprietor, land-holder or settlement holder the status of a land-holder, (b) Where the interest of the donor was that of a tenant having permanent, heritable and transferable right, the status of an occupancy rayat. (2) The grantee shall hold the land subject to the following conditions, namely:- (a) the grantee shall not be entitled to transfer or sublet the land or any part thereof ; (b) the grantee shall not allow the land to lie fallow for two consecutive years without reasonable cause; (c) a grantee under clause (a) shall pay to the State Government land revenue and other dues, if any, on the land on due dates thereof; (d) any other condition which may be prescribed by the State Government in consultation with the Bhoodan Board. (3) The name of the grantee shall in the prescribed manner be mutated immediately after the information of distribution being received from the Bhoodan Board under sub-section (3) of section 7 and recorded in the record-of-rights maintained by the Deputy Commissioner in the Jamabandi or the rent-roll, as the case may be, mentioning the fact that the land is Bhoodan land.