Evacuee Property and Displaced Persons Laws (Repeal) Act, 1975

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THE EVACUEE PROPERTY AND DISPLACED PERSONS LAWS 
(REPEAL) ACT, 1975 
 
 
 
CONTENTS 
1.  Short title and commencement 
2.  Repeal of certain laws 
3.  Transfer of property 
4.  Disposal of residual work 
5.  Power to make rules 
6.  [Omitted] 
 

 
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THE EVACUEE PROPERTY AND DISPLACED PERSONS LAWS (REPEAL) 
ACT, 1975 
ACT No. XIV OF 1975 
[28th, January, 1975] 
An Act to repeal certain laws relating to evacuee property and rehabilitation of displaced persons 
 WHEREAS it is expedient to repeal certain laws relating to evacuee property and the 
rehabilitation of displaced persons; 
  It is hereby enacted as follows:— 
1. Short title and commencement.___ (1) This Act may be called the Evacuee Property and 
Displaced Persons Laws (Repeal) Act, 1975. 
 (2) It shall come into force at once and shall be deemed to have taken effect on the first day of 
July, 1974. 
 2. Repeal of certain laws.—(1) (1) The following Acts and Regulations are hereby repealed, 
namely:— 
(i)  the Registration of Claims (Displaced Persons) Act, 1956 (III of 1956),  
(ii)  the Pakistan Rehabilitation Act, 1956 (XLII of 1956), 
(iii)  the Pakistan (Administration of Evacuee Property) Act, 1957 (XII of 1957), 
(iv)  the Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act, 1958 (XXVIII 
of 1958), 
(v)  the Displaced Persons (Land Settlement) Act, 1958 (XLVII of 1958),  
(vi)  the Scrutiny of Claims (Evacuee Property) Regulation, 1961, and 
(vii)  the Price of Evacuee Property and Public Dues (Recovery) Regulation, 1971. 
 (2) Upon the repeal of the aforesaid Acts and Regulations, all proceedings which, 
immediately before such repeal, may be pending before the authorities appointed thereunder shall 
stand transferred for final disposal to such officers as may be notified by the Provincial Government 
in the official Gazette and all cases decided by the Supreme Court or a High Court after such repeal 
which would have been remanded to any such authority in the absence of such repeal shall be 
remanded to the officers notified as aforesaid. 
 (3) Any proceedings transferred or remanded to an officer in pursuance of sub-section (2) 
shall be disposed of by him in accordance with the provisions of the Act or Regulation hereby 
repealed to which the proceedings relate.
 
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 (4) The final orders passed under sub-section (3) shall be executed by the Board of Revenue 
of the Province in accordance with the provisions of the Act or Regulation hereby repealed to which 
the proceedings related. 
 3. Transfer of property.___ (1) All properties, both urban and rural, including agricultural 
land, other than such properties attached to charitable, religious or educational trusts or institutions, 
whether occupied or unoccupied, which may be available for disposal immediately before the repeal 
of the aforesaid Acts and Regulations, or which may become available for disposal after such repeal 
as a result of a final order passed under sub-section (3) of section 2, shall stand transferred to the 
Provincial Government, on payment of such price as may be fixed by the Federal Government in 
consultation with the Provincial Government, for disposal— 
(a)  in the case of urban properties, by the Provincial Government under a scheme 
to be prepared by it in this behalf ; and  
(b)  in the case of rural properties, by the Board of Revenue of the Province under 
a scheme to be prepared by the Provincial Government in this behalf: 
 Provided that agricultural land occupied by any person continuously 
for four harvests immediately preceding Kharif 1973 shall first be offered for 
sale to such person unless an order of ejectment has been passed against him in 
respect of such land: 
 Provided further that only so much land shall be offered to such person 
as does not together with land already held by him, exceed a subsistence 
holding within the meaning of the Land Reforms Regulation, 1972. 
 (2) The agricultural land temporarily allotted under any of the aforesaid Acts or Regulations 
to a displaced person from Jammu and Kashmir State or to such other person as the Federal 
Government may determine who is not in cultivating possession of the allotted land, shall be offered 
for sale to such allottee unless an order of cancellation of allotment has been passed against him in 
respect of such land: 
 Provided that only so much land shall be offered to such allottee as does not, together with 
land already held by him, exceed a subsistence holding within the meaning of the Land Reforms 
Regulation, 1972: 
 Provided further that the temporary allottee or other person who purchases the land so offered 
to him shall not eject the tenant from such land except on the ground that he has failed to pay rent in 
accordance with the terms of his tenancy: 
 Provided further that, in the event of a displaced person from Jammu and Kashmir State or 
any of his successors-in-interest being repatriated to that State, he shall pay to the Provincial 
Government the price of the land held by him at the rate ascertained by that Government. 
 
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 4. Disposal of residual work.__ All the work regarding documentation, both for urban and 
rural properties, recovery of outstanding transfer price, rent or mortgage money of such property 
already disposed of and discharge of miscellaneous liabilities out of these recoveries, which may 
remain pending immediately before the repeal of the aforesaid Acts and Regulations shall stand 
transferred to the Board of the Revenue of the Province. 
 5. Power to make rules.__ The Provincial Government may, by notification in the official 
Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. 
 6. 1[Omitted] 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
RGN Date: 04-06-2024 
1Omitted by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Ordinance, 1981 (Ordinance No. XXVII of 1981), s. 3 and Sch., II.