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 60: Powers of Authority and procedure before it.
    (1) The Authority shall, for the purposes of its functions under this Act, shall have the same powers as are vested in a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908) in respect of the following matters, namely:--
         (a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;
         (b) discovery and production of any document or other material object producible as evidence;
         (c) receiving evidence on affidavits;
         (d) requisitioning of any public record;
         (e) issuing commission for the examination of witnesses;
         (f) reviewing its decisions, directions and orders;
         (g) any other matter which may be prescribed.
     (2) The Authority shall have original jurisdiction to adjudicate upon every reference made to it under section 64.
     (3) The Authority shall not be bound by the procedure laid down in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908) but shall be guided by the principles of natural justice and subject to the other provisions of this Act and of any rules made thereunder, the Authority shall have the power to regulate its own procedure.
     (4) The Authority shall, after receiving reference under section 64 and after giving notice of such reference to all the parties concerned and after affording opportunity of hearing to all parties, dispose of such reference within a period of six months from the date of receipt of such reference and make an award accordingly.
     (5) The Authority shall arrange to deliver copies of the award to the parties concerned within a period of fifteen days from the date of such award.
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