State Act

THE ASSAM COMMISSIONERS' POWERS DlSTRIBUTION ACT, 1939

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by Assam Board of Revenue Act, 1962 (named as the Act repealing it in the Assam Legislative Department's list of repealed Acts, alphabetical_repealed_act_final.pdf; the list gives no date); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

3. (1) Subject to the next succeeding sub-section and to section 5 of this Act, all enactments made by any authority in British India and all notifications, orders, schemes, rules, forms and bye-laws issued, made or prescribed under such enactments, which, immediately before the commencement of this Act, were in force in, or prescribed for, any of the territories in the Surma Valley and Hill Division, shall in their application to such territories as aforesaid be construed as if references therein to the authorities mentioned in column 1 of Schedule A were references to the authority mentioned opposite thereto in column 2 of the said Schedule. (2) Notwithstanding anything in the preceding sub-section the Commissioner, Assam Valley Division, shall not have jurisdiction to entertain appeals or revise decisions in Revenue cases arising in the Assam Valley Division or in the Surma Valley and Hill Division. Any such jurisdiction as was immediately before the commencement of this Act, vested in the Commissioner of a Division shall, after the commencement of this Act, be exercised by the tribunal constituted under section 296 of the Government of India Act, 1935.