CHAPTER–V MISCELLANEOUS

Section 53: Mutual exchange of chaks between tenure-holders

The Uttar Pradesh Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1953

How current this text is

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.

[It shall be lawful for the Settlement Officer, Consolidation, at any stage of the consolidation proceedings but before the preparation of the final records under section 27, to allow mutual exchange of chaks, or part thereof ¹[by agreement] between the tenure-holders, where he is satisfied that the exchange will improve the shape of chaks, or reduce their number and generally lead to greater satisfaction amongst them.

Footnotes in the official text

1.Ins. by sec. 44 of U. P. Act no. 8 of 1963.

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