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KARNATAKA ACT 33 OF 1991

THE LAND ACQUISITION (KARNATAKA
AMENDMENT) ACT, 1988
Arrangement of Sections
Sections
1.
Short title, extent and commen cement

2. Amendment of ection 4
3. Amendment of section 6
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KARNATAKA ACT 33 OF 1991

First published in the KarnatakaGazette Extraordinary
on the twentyseventh day of November, 1991)
THE LAND AcoUISITION (KARNATAKA
AMENDMENT) ACT. 1988
(Reoeived the ussent of the Presidont on the First
day of November, 1991)
An Act further to amend the Land Acquisition
Act 1894 in its application to the State of Karnataka.
Whereas it is expedient further to amend the LAnd
Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central Act I of 1894) in its appli
cation to the State of Karnataka for the purpo8es herein
after appearing ;
Be it enacted in the thirty-ninth year of the Repub!ic
of India as follows :
1. Short tit le, extent and commencement. -(1) This
Act may be called the Land Acquisition (Karnataka
Amendment) Act. 1988.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Karnataka.
(3) It shall come in to force at once.
2. Amendment ,of section 4,-In section 4 of the
LandAcquisition Act, 1894 (Centr al Act l of 1894) (herein
after referred to as the principal Act), for sub-section (1)
and the explanation thereto, the following shall be
substituted, namely :
(1) Whenever it øppears to the appropriate
Government or the Deputy Commissioner that the Land
any locality is needed or is likely to be needed for any
public purpose or for a company, a notification stating the
purpose for whichthe land is needed, or is likely to be
needed and describing the land by its survey number, if any ,
and its approximete area shall be published in the Oficial
Gezette and in two daily newspapers ciroulating in that
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which at least one shall be in the regional

ality ofand public
language the Deputy Commissioner shall cause given at
De of
notice the substance of such notification to bethe dates
coDvenient places in the said locality (the last of
coch publication and the giving of such public notice
of su
hereinafter referred to as the date of the publication
oing may also
ofthe notifica tion). The Deputy Commissioner
served on the ower
notification to be
8u8e a copy of such the owner is not the occupier, on
where the owner is not
or
land :
the occupier of the
the notifi cation published in the official
Provided that the land by its
description of
Gazette shall contain the
boundaries also,
Explanation.-The expression 'convenient places in
the case of land situated in a village, the ofice of
cludes, in jurisdiction the land lies.'!.
the panchayat within whose

3. Amendment of section
6,-For sub-section (2) of
shall be substi
section 6 of the principal Act, the following
tuted, namely
<(2) Such declaration shall be published in the
Oficial Gazette, and in two daily newspaperswhichcirculating in
at least
thelocality in which the land is situate, of
one shall be in the regional language and the Deputy Com
missioner shalIcause public notice of the substance of such
declaration to be given at convenient places in the said
locality (the last of the dates of such publication and the
giving of such public notice being hereinafter referred to
and such
as the date of the publication of declaratin)Territorial
declaration shallState the District or other
Division in whËch the land is situate, the purpose for which
number, if
it is needed, its approxinate area and surveythe land. the
any and where a plan shall have been made of
place where such plan mav be inspected
Provided that the declar ation as published inof thethe
officia] Gazette sball cont ain the precise boundaries
land.'.