Displaced Persons (Land settlement) Act, 1958 (Act No. XLVII of 1958)

THE DISPLACED PERSONS (LAND SETTLEMENT) ACT, 1958 (Act No. XLVII of 1958) An Act to provide for the permanenr settlement of displaced persons on lnnd and for matters inciderttal thereto or connected therewith. 2. In lhis Act unless there is anything repugnant in the definitions, subject or contcxt, (l) "allotment" means an allotment of agricultural land made to a displaced person under this Act or under any scheme, in lieu of any claim registered and verified; (3) "Land" means evacuee property consisting of land held for agricultural purposes or for purposes subservient to agriculture or for pasture, including gardens, unsurveyed land and trees or buildings and other structures standing thereon and includes all rights of evacuees in such land .... ; (9) "Settlement" means conferment on a displaced person of any permanent right in, or title to, any land under this Act, whether such right of title be proprietary, occupancy, tenancy or of any other kind. 5.( I) For the purpose of granting compensation to displaced persons whose claims have verified, one or more compensation pools ... be conslituted . 14.(l) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, the Chief Settlement Commissioner, or any other officer specially empowered by the Government in this behalf, shall prepare one or more schemes for allotment to displaced persons against their verified claims of land in the Compensation Pools constituted under section 5. I 5.( J} A Sculemcnl Authoriiy spccial!y ernpowrrcd by (he U1id '.3t~11lrn1er11 Commissioner In this hchulf, ~hulL in respect ot 'itlch vcrtri~d claiint. against which no allotment has hcen made heforc the con1mc11cement ol J/iis Act, proceed to make an allotment io lhe dispL-Kcd person concnned in accordance witb any of the schemes executed under section 14. (2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (I) of section l l, an allotment to a displaced person under sub-section (l) shall be made on the basis nf his entitlement <iS detennined under this Act or the rules made thereunder. 16. Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the lime being in force, the land on which a displaced person is permanently setclcd under this Act shall vest absolutely in such person.