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CHAPTER—VIII Management of Land and other Properties by Gram Panchayat or other Local Authority

Section 67-A: Certain house sites to be settled with existing owners thereof

The Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code, 2006

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Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act No. 20 of 2026.

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1[(1) If any person referred to in sub-section (1) of section 64 has built a house on any land referred to in section 63 of this Code, not being land reserved for any public purpose, and such house exists on the November 29, 2012, the site of such house shall be held by the owner of the house on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed.

(2) Where any person referred to in sub-section (1) of section 64, has built a house on any land held by a tenure holder (not being a government lessee ) and such house exists on November 29, 2000, the site of such house, notwithstanding anything contained in this Code, be deemed to be settled with the owner of such house by the tenure holder on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed.

Explanation :—For the purpose of sub-section (2), a house existing on November 29, 2000, on any land held by a tenure holder, shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed to have been built by the occupant thereof and where the occupants are members of one family by the head of that family. ]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Ins. by sec. 54 of U. P. Act no. 04 of 2016.

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