Act Number: 30

Act Name: The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013

Year: 2013

Enactment Date: 2013-09-26

Long Title: An Act to ensure, in consultation with institutions of local self-government and Gram Sabhas established under the Constitution, a humane, participative, informed and transparent process for land acquisition for industrialisation, development of essential infrastructural facilities and urbanisation with the least disturbance to the owners of the land and other affected families and provide just and fair compensation to the affected families whose land has been acquired or proposed to be acquired or are affected by such acquisition and make adequate provisions for such affected persons for their rehabilitation and resettlement and for ensuring that the cumulative outcome of compulsory acquisition should be that affected persons become partners in development leading to an improvement in their post acquisition social and economic status and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Rural Development

Department: Department of Land Resources

Section 53: Qualifications for appointment as Presiding Officer.
    (1) A person shall not be qualified for appointment as the Presiding Officer of an Authority unless,--
         (a) he is or has been a District Judge; or
         (b) he is a qualified legal practitioner for not less than seven years.
     (2) A Presiding Officer shall be appointed by the appropriate Government in consultation with the Chief Justice of a High Court in whose jurisdiction the Authority is proposed to be established.
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