Sreepadam Lands Enfranchisement Act, 1969
No: 20 Dated: Apr, 09 1969
THE SREEPADAM LANDS ENFRANCHISEMENT ACT, 1969
(Act 20 of 1969)
An Act to provide for the enfranchisement of Sreepadam lands on payment of compensation and for matters connected therewith
Preamble. -WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the enfranchisement of Sreepadam lands on payment of compensation and for matters connected thcrewith;
BE it enacted in the Nineteenth Year of the Repubhc of India as follows -
1. Short title and commencement.-(1) This act may be called the Srccpadam Lands Enfranchrsemcnt Act, 1969.
(2) It shall come into furce on such date as the Government may by notification in the Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) "appointed day" means the day on which this Act comes into force,
(b) "basic-tax" means the tax imposed under the provisions of the Kerala Land Tax Act, 1961 (13 of 1961),
(c) "financial year" means the year commencing on the 1st day of April;
(d) "holding" means any parcel or parcels of Sreepadam lands held by a landholder,
(e) "kuthakapattom" means a lease of Sreepadam lands or of trees on such lands or of both, granted for consideration payable in money or in kind or in both, whether annually or otherwise;
(f) "landholder" means a person holding at the commencement of this Act Sreepadam lands on Sreepadam pattom or other favourable tenures, but does not include a person holding Sreepadam lands on Kuthakapattom;
(t) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(h) "rent" means whatever is lawfully payable in money or in kind or in both, to the Sreepadam Palace by a landholder for the use and occupation of any Sreepadam land;
(i) "Sreepadam lands" means-
(i) lands compnsed m the free-hold villages of ldakkode, Illamba, Mudakkal, Alamkodu, Avanavancherry, Attingal and Kilattingal in the Chiraymkd Taluk, the revenue from wh1ch is wholly assigned in favour of the Sreepadam Palace,
(ii) other lands not being pandaravaka lands Situate in the State of Kerala and owned by the Srccpadam Palace;
(j) "tharissu'' means any land entered as tharissu in the revenue records (other than lands held under kuthakapattom) and owned by the Srecpadam Palace, but does not wclude any such land held by a landholl.er.