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  "title": "Evacuee Property and Displaced Persons Laws (Repeal) Act, 1975",
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  "text": "Page 1 of 4 \r\n \r\n  \r\n \r\n \r\nTHE EVACUEE PROPERTY AND DISPLACED PERSONS LAWS \r\n(REPEAL) ACT, 1975 \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nCONTENTS \r\n1.  Short title and commencement \r\n2.  Repeal of certain laws \r\n3.  Transfer of property \r\n4.  Disposal of residual work \r\n5.  Power to make rules \r\n6.  [Omitted] \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nPage 2 of 4 \r\n \r\nTHE EVACUEE PROPERTY AND DISPLACED PERSONS LAWS (REPEAL) \r\nACT, 1975 \r\nACT No. XIV OF 1975 \r\n[28th, January, 1975] \r\nAn Act to repeal certain laws relating to evacuee property and rehabilitation of displaced persons \r\n WHEREAS it is expedient to repeal certain laws relating to evacuee property and the \r\nrehabilitation of displaced persons; \r\n  It is hereby enacted as follows:— \r\n1. Short title and commencement.___ (1) This Act may be called the Evacuee Property and \r\nDisplaced Persons Laws (Repeal) Act, 1975. \r\n (2) It shall come into force at once and shall be deemed to have taken effect on the first day of \r\nJuly, 1974. \r\n 2. Repeal of certain laws.—(1) (1) The following Acts and Regulations are hereby repealed, \r\nnamely:— \r\n(i)  the Registration of Claims (Displaced Persons) Act, 1956 (III of 1956),  \r\n(ii)  the Pakistan Rehabilitation Act, 1956 (XLII of 1956), \r\n(iii)  the Pakistan (Administration of Evacuee Property) Act, 1957 (XII of 1957), \r\n(iv)  the Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act, 1958 (XXVIII \r\nof 1958), \r\n(v)  the Displaced Persons (Land Settlement) Act, 1958 (XLVII of 1958),  \r\n(vi)  the Scrutiny of Claims (Evacuee Property) Regulation, 1961, and \r\n(vii)  the Price of Evacuee Property and Public Dues (Recovery) Regulation, 1971. \r\n (2) Upon the repeal of the aforesaid Acts and Regulations, all proceedings which, \r\nimmediately before such repeal, may be pending before the authorities appointed thereunder shall \r\nstand transferred for final disposal to such officers as may be notified by the Provincial Government \r\nin the official Gazette and all cases decided by the Supreme Court or a High Court after such repeal \r\nwhich would have been remanded to any such authority in the absence of such repeal shall be \r\nremanded to the officers notified as aforesaid. \r\n (3) Any proceedings transferred or remanded to an officer in pursuance of sub-section (2) \r\nshall be disposed of by him in accordance with the provisions of the Act or Regulation hereby \r\nrepealed to which the proceedings relate.\r\n \r\nPage 3 of 4 \r\n \r\n (4) The final orders passed under sub-section (3) shall be executed by the Board of Revenue \r\nof the Province in accordance with the provisions of the Act or Regulation hereby repealed to which \r\nthe proceedings related. \r\n 3. Transfer of property.___ (1) All properties, both urban and rural, including agricultural \r\nland, other than such properties attached to charitable, religious or educational trusts or institutions, \r\nwhether occupied or unoccupied, which may be available for disposal immediately before the repeal \r\nof the aforesaid Acts and Regulations, or which may become available for disposal after such repeal \r\nas a result of a final order passed under sub-section (3) of section 2, shall stand transferred to the \r\nProvincial Government, on payment of such price as may be fixed by the Federal Government in \r\nconsultation with the Provincial Government, for disposal— \r\n(a)  in the case of urban properties, by the Provincial Government under a scheme \r\nto be prepared by it in this behalf ; and  \r\n(b)  in the case of rural properties, by the Board of Revenue of the Province under \r\na scheme to be prepared by the Provincial Government in this behalf: \r\n Provided that agricultural land occupied by any person continuously \r\nfor four harvests immediately preceding Kharif 1973 shall first be offered for \r\nsale to such person unless an order of ejectment has been passed against him in \r\nrespect of such land: \r\n Provided further that only so much land shall be offered to such person \r\nas does not together with land already held by him, exceed a subsistence \r\nholding within the meaning of the Land Reforms Regulation, 1972. \r\n (2) The agricultural land temporarily allotted under any of the aforesaid Acts or Regulations \r\nto a displaced person from Jammu and Kashmir State or to such other person as the Federal \r\nGovernment may determine who is not in cultivating possession of the allotted land, shall be offered \r\nfor sale to such allottee unless an order of cancellation of allotment has been passed against him in \r\nrespect of such land: \r\n Provided that only so much land shall be offered to such allottee as does not, together with \r\nland already held by him, exceed a subsistence holding within the meaning of the Land Reforms \r\nRegulation, 1972: \r\n Provided further that the temporary allottee or other person who purchases the land so offered \r\nto him shall not eject the tenant from such land except on the ground that he has failed to pay rent in \r\naccordance with the terms of his tenancy: \r\n Provided further that, in the event of a displaced person from Jammu and Kashmir State or \r\nany of his successors-in-interest being repatriated to that State, he shall pay to the Provincial \r\nGovernment the price of the land held by him at the rate ascertained by that Government. \r\n \r\nPage 4 of 4 \r\n \r\n 4. Disposal of residual work.__ All the work regarding documentation, both for urban and \r\nrural properties, recovery of outstanding transfer price, rent or mortgage money of such property \r\nalready disposed of and discharge of miscellaneous liabilities out of these recoveries, which may \r\nremain pending immediately before the repeal of the aforesaid Acts and Regulations shall stand \r\ntransferred to the Board of the Revenue of the Province. \r\n 5. Power to make rules.__ The Provincial Government may, by notification in the official \r\nGazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. \r\n 6. 1[Omitted] \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nRGN Date: 04-06-2024 \r\n1Omitted by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Ordinance, 1981 (Ordinance No. XXVII of 1981), s. 3 and Sch., II.",
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