The Maharashtra Khoti Abolition Act

Preamble

ACT No. VI OF 1950¹

[THE MAHARASHTRA KHOTI ABOLITION ACT.]

[This Act received the assent of the president on the 29^th March 1950; assent was first published in the Bombay Government Gazette on the 3^rd April 1950.]

An Act to abolish the khoti tenure in the ²[State of Bombay].

WHEREAS it is expedient to abolish the khoti tenure prevailing in the districts of ³Ratnagiri and ⁴Kolaba in the ⁵[Bombay area of the State of Maharashtra] and to provide for certain consequential and incidental matters hereinafter appearing; It is hereby enacted as follows :-

Sections

Type to filter. 18 sections.

1. 1Short title, extent and commencement
2. 2Definitions
3. 3Abolition of khoti tenure
4. 4Khot, dharekari and tenants to be occupants
5. 5Commutation of khot’s dues
6. 6Occupancy price or commutation value recoverable as arrears of land revenue
7. 7Khot to hand over accounts, etc., to authorised Officer
8. 8Uncultivated and waste lands and all property of the nature specified in section 37 of the Code vests in the Government
9. 9Extinction of khot’s right of reversion
10. 10Right to trees
11. 11Application of the Code to lands in khoti village
12. 12Method of compensation for the extinguishment or modification of any rights in land
13. 13Limitation
14. 14Court-fees
15. 14-ARevisional powers in respect of awards made before commencement of Bom. XCIII of 1958
16. 15Provisions of Bom. LXVII of 1948 to govern the relations of khot and tenants
17. 16Rules
18. 17Repeal

Schedules

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