State Act

The Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act-1948

88B. 2[(1)] Nothing in the foregoing provisions, except sections 3, 4B, 8, 9, 9A, 9B, 9C, 10, 10A, 11, 13 and 27 and the provisions of Chapters VI and VIII in so far as the provisions of the said Chapters are applicable to any of the matters referred to in the sections mentioned above, shall apply— (a) to lands held or leased by a 3[ * * *] University established by law in the 4[Bombay area of the state of Gujarat]; and (b) to lands which are the property of a trust for an educational purpose 1[a hospital, Panjrapole.] 2[or Gaushala]; 3[(c) to lands assigned or donated by any person before the 1st day of August, 1956, for the purpose of rendering any of the following services useful to the community, namely:— maintenance of water works, lighting or filling of water throughs for cattle:] Provided that — (i) such trust is or is deemed to be registered under the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950, and (ii) the entire income of such land is appropriated for the purposes of such trust. 4[(2) For the purposes of this section a certificate granted by the Collector, after holding an inquiry, that the conditions in the proviso to sub-section (1) are satisfied by any trust shall be conclusive evidence in that behalf.] 5[(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Act shall apply to lands leased for cultivation with the help of sewage, whether before or after the commencement of the Amending Act, 1955 by a local authority in discharge of its duties and functions relating to the establishment and maintenance of a farm for the disposal of sewage under the law under which such local authority is consitituted.]