Keyword(s):
Owner, Record of Rights
An act to unify and amend the law relating to the preparation and execution of Land
Development Schemes including Schemes for the conservation and development of soil
resources, the control and prevention of soil erosion and the reclamation of waste lands in
the State of Kerala.
Preamble.- WHEREAS it is expedient to unify and amend the law relating to the
preparation and execution of land development schemes including schemes for the
conservation and development of soil resources, the control and prevention of soil
erosion and reclamation of waste lands in the State of Kerala.
BE it enacted in the Fifteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title, extent and commencement .-(1) This Act may be called the Kerala Land
Development Act, 1964.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Kerala .
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the
Gazette, appoint.
[2] Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) “Board” means the Kerala Land Development Board constituted under section 3;) ;
3 “Collector” means the Member-Secretary of the District planning committee
constituted under the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994 (20 of 1994)}
4 “District Committee” means- the District Land Development Committee referred
to in section 5.)
(d) “Executing Officer” means an Officer appointed under Section 13 to execute a
scheme;
(e) “Inquiring Officer” means an Officer appointed as such by the District Committee;
(f) “owner” means any person for the time being receiving or entitled to receive,
whether on his own account, or as agent, trustee, guardian, manager or receiver for
another person, the rent or profit derivable from land and includes a tenant, an occupant
or mortgage in possession of land; 5 “Padasekharam” means a collection of field o other areas of lands, with or
without a common outer bund, which is suitable for the adoption of a common cultivation
programme or common agriculture) operations including dewatering and irrigation;)
6 “Padasekharam committee” means a committee constituted under section 7A;)
(g) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(h) “record of rights” means the record of rights and liabilities prepared under Section
20;
(i) “scheme” means any Land Development Scheme prepared or to be prepared under
this Act;
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