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Repeal of Maharashtra Ord. II of 1979 and savings. 1979 : Mah. XI] The Maharashtra Khar Lands Development Act, 1979 3 MAHARASHTRA ACT No. XI OF 19791 [THE MAHARASHTRA KHAR LANDS DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1979.] [This Act received the assent of the President on the 10th April 1979; assent was first published in the Maharashtra Government Gazette, Extraordinary No. 13, Part IV, on the 11th April 1979.] An Act to make better provision for protection, development and control of Khar lands, and reclamation of tidal lands, by construction and maintenance of embankments and other works by the State Government itself, for facilitating growing more food crops thereon and for certain other matters. WHEREAS both Houses of the State Legislature were not in session; AND WHEREAS the Governor of Maharashtra was satisfied that circumstances existed which rendered it necessary for him to take immediate action to make better provision for protection, development and control of khar lands, and reclamation of tidal lands, by construction and maintenance of embankments and other works by the State Government itself, for facilitating growing more food crops thereon and for certain other matters hereinafter appearing; and, therefore, promulgated the Maharashtra Khar Lands Development Ordinance, 1979 (Mah. Ord. II of 1979), on the 19th February 1979; AND WHEREAS it is expedient to replace the said Ordinance by an Act of the State Legislature; It is hereby enacted in the Thirtieth Year of the Republic of India, as follows :—