THE RAJASTHAN JAGIR LANDS RESUMPTION (VALIDATING) ACT, 1957

1. Short title.- This Act may be called the Rajasthan Jagir Lands Resumption (Validating) Act, 1957.

2. Validation of resumption of certain jagir lands. - Not-withstanding anything contained in any law, rule or order or in any judgment or decree of any court, where, in exercise of the power conferred by section 21 of the Rajasthan Land Reforms and Resump-tion of Jagirs Act, 1952 (Rajasthan Act VI of 1952),the State Govern-ment shall have appointed by notification a date for the resumption of any class of jagir lands, settled or mostly settled, any jagir lands affected by such notification shall be deemed to have been duly resumed on the date so appointed if on that date the rent-rates determined during settlement operations had been made applicable, prospectively or retrospectively, to not less than three-fourths of such jagir lands.

3. Amendment of section 2 of Rajasthan Act VI of 1952.- For clause (n) of section 2 of the Rajasthan Land Reforms and Resumption of Jagirs Act, 1952 (Rajasthan Act VI of 1952), the following shall be substituted, namely :— "(n)"settled", when used with reference to a village or any other area, means the village or other area to which the rent-rates deter-mined during settlement operations have been made applicable, whether prospectively or retropectively, and the whole of such village or other area shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, and the rules and orders made thereunder, to be so settled if such rates have been made so applicable to not less than three-fourth of such village or other area."

4. Repeal.- The Rajasthan Jagir Lands Resumption (Validating) Ordinance, 1957 (Rajasthan Ordinance 9 of 1957) is hereby repealed.