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CHAPTER–IV ENFORCEMENT OF THE SCHEME

Section 29-C: Vesting of land contributed for public purposes

The Uttar Pradesh Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1953

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Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act No. 3 of 2002.

Sections 1 to 3 carry marginal headings and the later sections carry headings printed at the start of the section; both are shown as the section headings. Sections 4-A, 11-C and the omitted sections carry no heading in this copy.

Marginal references to other enactments (for example "U. P. Act No. I of 1951") printed beside the text are not reproduced.

1[(1) The land contributed for public purposes under this Act shall, with effect from the date on which the tenure-holders became entitled to enter into possession of the chaks allotted to them under the provisions of this Act as amended from time to time, vest and be always deemed to have vested in the Gaon Sabha [in an area in which section 117 of the Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 applies and in the State Government in any other area]2 and shall be utilized for the purpose for which it was earmarked in the final Consolidaiton scheme, or in case of failure of that purpose, for such other purposes may be prescribed.]

3[(2) The provisions of section 117 of the Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950, shall mutatis mutandis apply to such land 4[vested in the Gaon Sabha] as if the land had vested in the Gaon Sabha by virtue of a declaration made by the State Government under sub-section (1) of that section, and as if the declarations were made subject to the conditions respecting utilization specified in sub-section (1) of this section.]

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Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by sec. 31 ibid.
  2. 2.Ins. by sec. 12 (a) of U. P. Act no. 30 of 1991.
  3. 3.Subs. by sec. 3 of U. P. Act no. 21 of 1966.
  4. 4.Ins. by sec. 12 (b) of U. P. Act no. 30 of 1991.
  5. 5.Del. by sec. 3 (2) ibid.

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