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R.1 .

These rules may be called the Karbi Anglong District (Land Reforms) Rules, 1981.

R.2 .

These rules shall come into force retrospectively] with effect from 12th September, 1979.

R.3 .

In these rules unless the subject or the context otherwise requires—

(a) “Act” means the Karbi Anglong District (Land Reforms) Act, 1979 (District Council Act No. 1 of 1979).

(b) “Circle” means the Revenue circle under the Assistant Revenue Officer of the Karbi Anglong District Council.

(c) “District”, “District Council”, “Executive Committee” means the same as defined under Section 2 (c), (d), (e) respectively of the Act.

(d) “Revenue Officer” means the Secretary to the Executive Committee in-charge of Revenue Department.

(e) The pronoun “he” and its derivatives are used of any person whether male or female. Words importing the masculine gender shall be taken to include females. Illustration he means she also.

R.4 .

(a) There shall be Land Reforms Circle Committee in each and every circle under the District Council and Committee will consist of a maximum of 17 and minimum of 9 members as appointed and constituted by the Executive Committee.

(b) Each member will hold office for a period of 2 years.

(c) The Assistant Revenue Officer who is the Circle Officer will be the ex-officio Secretary of the Land Reforms Circle Committee who will convene the meetings of the Circle Committee.

(d) There shall be a Chairman and a Vice-Chairman of the Land Reforms Circle Committee.

(e) There shall be quorum when one-third of the total strength of member are present in the Committee meeting.

R.5 .

(a) The Circle Land Reforms Committee shall have the power to appoint the Mouza Level Land Reforms Committees falling under the respective circles jurisdiction.

(b) There shall be a Chairman and Vice-Chairman and also a Secretary each of the Mouza Land Reforms Committees besides 8 others appointed for 2 years.

(c) There shall be quorum when 7 members are present in the Committee meeting. The Secretary shall convene the meeting of the Mouza Committee.

R.6 .

(a) “District Committee.”—There shall be a District Committee consisting of a maximum of 17 and minimum of 9 members for the whole of Karbi Anglong District, as appointed and constituted by the Executive Committee.

(b) There shall be a Chairman and a Vice-Chairman of a District Committee.

(c) The necessary quorum will be two-third members of the total strength.

(d) The Revenue Officer of the District Council, who is also the Secretary to the Executive Committee in charge of Revenue Department shall be the ex-officio Secretary of the District Committee.

(e) The Chairman of the Circle Land Reforms Committee shall be member of the District Land Reforms Committee.

(f) The Chairman of Land Reforms Committee may invite important persons not exceeding 2 to be special invitees at his discretion and such special invitees shall have to voting rights.

R.7 .

(a) The Chairman of the District Committee will get honorarium to be fixed by the Executive Committee. The Chairman of the District Committee will be entitled to T.A. while travelling for purpose except meeting but in that case his tour programme will be sent to the District Council for approval.

(b) Other members of Committee will get T.A. as fixed by the Executive Committee from time to time. They will get sitting allowance to .be fixed by the Executive Committee.

R.8 .

The Mouza Land Reforms Committee and also the Circle Committee will sit once in month and the District Committee meet four times a year. But if the business of each Committee requires and in case of emergency, the Committee meeting may be called as when necessary.

R.9 .

Disqualification of members.—A person shall be disqualified for chosen as for being a member of the Mouza Circle or District Land Reforms Committee—

(a) if he is unsound mind, and stands so declared by a competent Court;

(b) if he is an undischarged insolvent;

(c) if he is not a citizen of India or has acquired voluntarily the citizenship of a foreign state or owes allegiance or adherence to a foreign state;

(d) if he is found to be guilty of any corrupt practice in an election or guilty of any offence punishable under Section 171-E or 171-F, I.P.C.;

(e) if he is convicted by criminal court as referred to in Cl. (d) or to imprisonment for an offence involving moral turpitude ;

(f) if he holds office of profit under the Government or the District Council;

(g) if he is a defaulter of any arrears due to the Gove

R.10 .

(1) If a member—-

(a) becomes disqualified from being a member by reason of the provisions of Rs.9, or

(b) absents himself during three successive sittings of the Committee except on suitable causes to be approved by the Committee,

such member shall cease to hold office as such and the Executive Committee may delay his seat to be vacant.

(2) When a member ceases to hold office as such the Mouza, Circle or District Land Reforms Committee of which he is member shall at once intimate in writing to Executive Committee which will take final action on such report.

R.11 .

The Chairman or in his absence, the Vice-Chairman shall preside at every meeting of the Land Reforms Committee. And in absence of both the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman, the members present in the Committee meeting choose one of the members to preside, who shall, like the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman in case of equality of votes have a second or casting vote.

R.12 Conduct of business

A notice of meeting alongwith a list of business to be transacted at every meeting except at an adjourned meeting shall be furnished to every member at least 10 days before the time fixed for such meeting. In case of covering a Mouza Level Land Reforms Committee meeting the time for circulating the notice shall be five days :

Provided that a member also may bring a resolution regarding land reforms in the Committee meeting which will be handed over to the ex-officio Secretary in time for-prior circulation.

R.13 .

Minutes in which shall be recorded the name of the members present at, and the proceedings of each meeting of the Land Reforms Committee, Circle or District, as the case may be, be drawn up and entered in a book to be kept for that purpose duly singed by the Presiding Officer and shall be forwarded after due confirmation to the Executive Committee.

R.14 .

The Executive Committee may also in any case call for a copy of any paper document and report all the papers with case records which shall be laid before the committee meeting.

The Mouza Land Reforms Committee for that matter, the Circle Land Reforms Committee may discuss the paikas system and other problems, as referred to in Section 2 of the Principal Act, and after discussion and careful consideration may forward the facts and its possible remedies in a report to the ex-office Secretary of the Circle Land Reforms Committee in the case of Mouza Land Reforms Committee and the case of Circle Land Reforms Committee to the District Land Reforms Committee which in turn after careful scrutiny shall send its report and recommendation to the Executive Committee.

R.15 .

The provisions of the Assam Land Revenue Regulation, 1886, shall be applicable in evicting the unauthorised cultivator, who in contravention of Section 3 (a) of the principal Act, refuse to vacate the land released by competent authority.