The Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms Act, 1960

(1) This Act may be called the Manipur Land Revenueand Land Reforms Act, 1960. (2) It extends to the whole of the Union territory of Manipur except the hill areas thereof. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Administrator may, by notification in the OfficialGazette, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different areas and for different provisions ofthis Act.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (a) "Administrator" means the Administrator of the Union territory of Manipur; (b) "agriculture" includes horticulture, the raising of annual or periodical crops or gardenproduce, dairy farming, poultry farming, stock breeding and grazing and pisciculture; (c) "basic holding" means land used for agricultural purposes which is equal to 2.5 acres in area; (d) "commencement of this Act", in relation to any provision, means the date specified in respectof that provision in a notification under sub-section (3) of section 1; (e) "competent authority", in relation to any provision, means any officer appointed by theAdministrator to be the competent authority for the purposes of that provision; (f) "deputy commissioner" means the deputy commissioner of the district and includes any officerappointed by the Administrator to exercise and perform all or any of the powers and functions of adeputy commissioner under this Act; (g) "family", except in Chapter XI, means, in relation to a person, the wife or husband of suchperson, his children, grand-children, parents and brothers, and in the case of a joint Hindu family, anymember of such family; (h) "family holding" means land used for agricultural purposes which is equal to 7.5 acres in area; (i) "Government" means the Central Government; (j) "hill areas" means such areas in the hill tracts of the Union territory of Manipur as theAdministrator may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be hill areas; (k) "holding" means a parcel of land separately assessed to land revenue; (l) "improvement", in relation to any land, means any work which materially adds to the value ofthe land and which is suitable to the land and consistent with the character thereof, and includes-- (i) the construction of tanks, wells, water channels and other works for the storage, supplyand distribution of water for agricultural purposes or for the use of man and cattle employed inagriculture; (ii) the construction of works for the drainage of land or for the protection of land from floodsor from erosion or from other damage by water; (iii) the preparation of land for irrigation; (iv) the conversion of one-crop into two-crop land; (v) the reclaiming, clearing, enclosing, levelling or terracing of land used for agriculturalpurposes; (vi) the erection on land or in the immediate vicinity thereof otherwise than on the villagesite, of a building or house for the occupation of the tenant, his family and servants or of a cattleshed, a storehouse or other construction for agricultural purposes or of any building required forthe convenient or profitable use or occupation of the land; and (vii) the renewal or reconstruction of any of the foregoing works or such alterations therein oradditions thereto as are not of the nature of ordinary repairs; (m) "land owner", in relation to any land, means a person who acquires rights of ownership inrespect of such land under sub-section (1) of section 99 and includes the successors-in-interest of suchperson; (n) "minor" means a person who is deemed not to have attained majority under the IndianMajority Act, 1875 (9 of 1875); (o) "Official Gazette" means the Manipur Gazette; (p) "pay", "payable", and "payment", used with reference to rent, include "deliver", "deliverable"and "delivery"; (q) "person under disability" means-- (i) a widow; (ii) a minor; (iii) a woman who is unmarried or who, if married, is divorced or judicially separated fromher husband or whose husband is a person falling under (iv) or (v); (iv) a member of the Armed Forces of the Union; (v) a person incapable of cultivation by reason of physical or mental disability; (r) "personal cultivation" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions meanscultivation by a person on his own account-- (i) by his own labour, or (ii) by the labour of any member of his family, or (iii) by servants or by hired labour on wages payable in cash or in kind but not as a share ofproduce under his personal supervision or the personal supervision of any member of his family; Explanation I.--Land shall not be deemed to be cultivated under the personal supervision of aperson unless such person or member resides in the village in which the land is situated or in a nearbyvillage, within a distance to be prescribed, during the major part of the agricultural season; Explanation II.--In the case of a person under disability, supervision by a paid employee onbehalf of such person shall be deemed to be personal supervision; (s) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (t) "public purpose" includes a purpose connected with settlement of land with cultivators, tenantsejected as a result of resumption, landless agricultural workers or co-operative farming societies; (u) "rent" means whatever is lawfully payable, in cash or in kind or partly in cash and partly inkind, whether as a fixed quantity of produce or as a share of the produce, on account of the use oroccupation of land or on account of any right in land but shall not include land revenue; (v) "tenant" means a person who cultivates or holds the land of another person under anagreement, express or implied, on condition of paying therefor rent in cash or in kind or delivering ashare of the produce and includes a person who cultivates or holds land of another person on paymentof "lousal" or under the system generally known as 'bhag', 'adhi' or 'barga'; (w) "village" means any tract of land which before the commencement of this Act was recognisedas or was declared to be a village under any law for the time being in force or which may after suchcommencement be recognised as a village at any settlement or which the Administrator may, bynotification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a village; (x) "year" means the agricultural year commencing on such date as the Administrator may, in thecase of any specified area, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

(1) The Administrator may, withthe previous concurrence of the Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, divide the territoriesto which this Act extends into one or more districts, and may similarly divide any district intosub-divisions and tehsils, and may alter the limits of, or abolish, any district, sub-division or tehsil. (2) The districts, sub-divisions and tehsils exiting at the commencement of this Act shall continuerespectively to be the districts, sub-divisions and tehsils under this Act unless otherwise provided undersub-section (1).

The Government or such officer as may be authorised by theGovernment in this behalf, may appoint the following classes of revenue officers, namely:-- (a) deputy commissioner; (b) additional deputy commissioner; (c) director of settlement and land records; (d) sub-divisional officers; (e) extra-assistant commissioners; (f) survey and settlement officers; (g) assistant survey and settlement officers; (h) sub-deputy collectors; (i) revenue inspectors; (j) amins; (k) such other village officers and servants as may be appointed by rules made under this Act.

(1) Each district shall be placedunder the charge of a deputy commissioner who shall be in charge of the revenue administration of thedistrict and exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the deputy commissioner under this Act orany other law for the time being in force and shall exercise so far as is consistent therewith such otherpowers of superintendence and control within the district and over the officers subordinate to him as mayfrom time to time be prescribed. (2) The additional deputy commissioner shall exercise all such powers and perform all such duties ofthe deputy commissioner or other revenue officer as the Administrator may specify by notification in theOfficial Gazette. (3) Each sub-division shall be placed under the charge of a sub-divisional officer. (4) The extra-assistant commissioners shall exercise all such powers and perform all such duties ofthe deputy commissioner or other revenue officer as the Administrator may specify by notification in theOfficial Gazette. (5) Each tehsil shall be placed under the charge of a sub-deputy collector. (6) The duties and powers of the sub-divisional officers, the sub-deputy collectors and other revenueofficers shall be such as may be imposed or conferred on them by or under this Act or any other law inforce for the time being or any general or special order of the Administrator published in the OfficialGazette.