Theiruppuvram Payment (Abolition) Act, 1969

No: 19 Dated: Apr, 09 1969

THE TIIIRUPPUVARAM PAYMENT (ABOLITION) ACT, 1969

(Act 19 of 1969)

    An Act to provided for the extinguishment of the right to receive, and the liability to pay, Thiruppuvaram

    Preamble. - Whereas it is necessary in the public interest to provide for the extinguishment of the right to receive, and the liability to pay, Thiruppuvaram,

Be in enacted in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

CHAPTER I

Preliminary

1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Thiruppuvaram Payment (Abolition) Act, 1969.

(2) It extends to those territories of the State of Kerala which, before the 1st day of July, 1949, were comprised in the State of Tiavancre.

(3) It shall come into force 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) "compensation officer" means an officer appointed under section 7;

(c) "landholder" means any person liable to pay Thiruppuvaram in respect of any land;

(d) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(e) "Thiruppuholder" means a person entitled to receive Thiruppuvaram immediately before the appointed day;

(f) "Thiruppuvaram" means an assignment of the whole or a specific portion of the revenue payable to the Government by the holder of a specified land in favour of a person called the Thiruppuholder in lieu of any payment which the Government were under an obligation to make to such person and entered as Thiruppuvaram in the revenue accounts and includes sums payable to the Thiruppuholder directly by the Government consequent on-

(i) the omission to enter in the Land Revenue Settlement Register of 1386 M. E. the assignment in favour of a Thiruppuholder of the whole or a portion of the land revenue payable by a landholder to the Government, or

(ii) the land revenue fixed as payable by a landholder at the Land Revenue Settlement of 1086 M. E. being less than the Thiruppuvaram assigned before that settlement in favour of a Thiruppuholder out of the land revenue payable by that landholder.

Explanation. - For the purposes of this clause, "revenue account" means the approved janiabandi accounts and includes the settlement register.