Haryana Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1972
PRINCIPLES FOR PAYMENT OF AMOUNT.--(1) Where any land is acquired or has vested under Section 12, that shall be paid for it an amount calculated at the rate shown in the table below, namely : TABLE Rate per acre in rupees Value of land as shown in the Schedule to this Act For first For next For remain 20 Paise ing or Annas 10 hectares hectars land 1 2 3 4 5 2000 1760 1600 100 16 or more or more 1875 1650 1500 94 15 1750 1540 1400 87 14 1625 1430 1300 81 13 1500 1320 1200 75 12 1375 1210 1100 69 11 1250 1100 1000 62 10 1125 990 900 56 9 1000 880 800 50 8 875 770 700 44 7 750 660 600 37 6 625 550 500 31 5 500 440 400 25 4 375 330 300 20 3 250 220 200 12 2 200 160 150 10 1 ½ (1 A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), a person who, under Section 9, fails to furnish a declaration or furnishes a declaration containing information which is false or which he knows or had reason to be believe to be false or which he does not believe to be true, shall be paid for the land for which no declaration is furnished or declaration furnished contains in formation which is false or which he knows or has reason to believe to b false or which he does not believe to be true, an amount calculated at half the rates shown in the table referred to in sub-section (1 ).(Added vide Act NO.1 of 1976) (2) The prescribed authority shall prepare a statement for the payment of amount in the form and manner prescribed and shall given notice to all persons (including the landowner, the. tenants or any other person) known t have any interest in the land on the basis of the entries in the revenue record or otherwise, for which the amount is to be paid to appear personally or by duly authorised agent before him at a time and place therein mentioned (sue time not being earlier than fifteen days after the date of service of the notice and to state the nature of their respective interests in the land and the amount and particulars of their claims for such interest in the land and the amount an particulars of their claims for such interests. The prescribed authority shall then determine the person or persons having interest in the land and the amount payable to each and the same shall be paid accordingly. (2A) The amount payable to the members of the family and the separate unit, in respect of the surplus area shall be apportioned between the members of the family as also the separate unit in the same proportion in which they owned or held land before the selection of the permissible area (Vide Act No. 17 of 1976) (3) The amount shall be applied firstly to discharge the Government dues, secondly to meet the claims of the secured creditors and lastly to pa the dues of other claimants. (4) Where mortgage rights have been acquired by the State Government, the amount payable to the mortgage shall be the mortgage money due to him or the amount payable for acquisition of land under this Section, which ever is less. (5) Where on the land there is any building, structure, tube-well water course including its subsidiary works, (crop, or tree including fruit tree) the owner thereof shall, in addition to the amount payable in respect of the land, be entitled to be paid by the State Government an amount therefore which shall be equivalent to fifty per centum of the market value of such building structure, (tube-well, watercourse including its subsidiary works), [crop or tree including fruit tree] (Vide Act No. 170f 1976), as the case may be, and which shall be determined by the [Prescribed Authority]: (Vide Act No. 40 of 1976) Provided that an option in writing shall be given by the prescribed authority to the owner to remove such building, structure, (crop or tree including fruit tree) within the period prescribed, and if such building, Structure, (crop or tree including fruit tree) as the case may· be, is removed by the owner within the period prescribed or within such further period as the Prescribed Authority may extend for the purpose: no amount shall be paid to the owner in respect thereof: Provided that the cost incurred in raising the crops shall be the market value of the crop.