— CONSTITUTION OF INDIA —
ARTICLE 31A: Saving of Laws providing for acquisition of estates, etc
_23[31A. Saving of laws providing for acquisition of estates, etc.-
_24[(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in article 13, no law
providing for-
(a) the acquisition by the State of any estate or of any rights
therein or the extinguishment or modification of any such rights, or
(b) the taking over of the management of any property by the State for
a limited period either in the public interest or in order to secure
the proper management of the property, or
(c) the amalgamation of two or more corporations either in the public
interest or in order to secure the proper management of any of the
corporations, or
(d) the extinguishment or modification of any rights of managing
agents, secretaries and treasurers, managing directors, directors or
managers of corporations, or of any voting rights of shareholders
thereof, or
(e) the extinguishment or modification of any rights accruing by
virtue of any agreement, lease or licence for the purpose of searching
for, or winning, any mineral or mineral oil, or the premature
termination or cancellation of any such agreement, lease or licence,
shall be deemed to be void on the ground that it is inconsistent with,
or takes away or abridges any of the rights conferred by _25[article
14 or article 19]:
Provided that where such law is a law made by the Legislature of a
State, the provisions of this article shall not apply thereto unless
such law, having been reserved for the consideration of the President,
has received his assent:]
-26[Provided further that where any law makes any provision for the
acquisition by the State of any estate and where any land comprised
therein is held by a person under his personal cultivation, it shall
not be lawful for the State to acquire any portion of such land as is
within the ceiling limit applicable to him under any law for the time
being in force or any building or structure standing thereon or
appurtenant thereto, unless the law relating to the acquisition of
such land, building or structure, provides for payment of compensation
at a rate which shall not be less than the market value thereof.]
(2) In this article,-
_27[(a) the expression “estate” shall, in relation to any local area,
have the same meaning as that expression or its local equivalent has
in the existing law relating to land tenures in force in that area and
shall also include-
(i) any jagir, inam or muafi or other similar grant and in the States
of _28[Tamil Nadu] and Kerala, any janmam right;
(ii) any land held under ryotwari settlement;
(iii) any land held or let for purposes of agriculture or for purposes
ancillary thereto, including waste land, forest land, land for pasture
or sites of buildings and other structures occupied by cultivators of
land, agricultural labourers and village artisans;]
(b) the expression “rights”, in relation to an estate, shall include
any rights vesting in a proprietor, sub-proprietor, under-proprietor,tenure-holder, _29[raiyat, under-raiyat] or other intermediary and any
rights or privileges in respect of land revenue.]
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