State Act

The Assam Evacuee Property Act, 1951

This Act was repealed on 7 February 2023 by the Assam Evacuee Property (Repealing) Act, 2022 (Assam Act 71 of 2023), s.2(1); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context— (a) “Adhiar” means a person who under the system generally known, as Adhi (whether Guchi-adhi or Guti-adhi), barga, chukti, bhag or chukani, cultivates the land of another person on condition of delivering a share or quantity of the produce of such land to that person ; (b) “allotment” means the grant by the Deputy Commissioner of the temporary right to use and occupy any property otherwise than by way of lease ; (c) “appointed day” means the 31st day of March 1951 ; (d) “the Committee” means the Evacuee Property Management Committee for Assam constituted under sub-section (1) of section 12 of this Act ; (e) “the Deputy Commissioner” means the Deputy Commissioner of the district within which the evacuee property is situated ; (f) “evacuee” means a person ordinarily resident in Assam who on account of communal disturbances or the fear of such disturbances leaves, or has after the 15th August 1947 left, Assam, for any place in Pakistan and also includes his legal heir ; (g) “property” means immovable property ; (h) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act ; (i) “Urban area” means any area included in a Municipality or a small town constituted under the provisions of the Assam Municipal Act, 1923 (Assam Act I of 1923), and such other areas as may be notified by the State Government in the Official Gazette as urban areas for the purposes of this Act.