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Repeal of Mah. Ord. XVIII of 1975 and savings. SCHEDULE. MAHARASHTRA ACT No. LXVI OF 19751 [THE MAHARASHTRA VACANT LANDS (PROHIBITION OF UNAUTHORISED OCCUPATION AND SUMMARY EVICTION) ACT, 1975] [24th December 1975] [This Act received assent of the Governor on the 20th December 1975; assent was first published in “Maharashtra Government Gazette”, in Part IV, Extraordinary, on the 24th December 1975] Amended by Mah. 37 of 1976. (3-8-1976)* ” ” 7 of 1977. (25-1-1977)* An Act to prohibit unauthorised occupation of vacant lands in the urban areas in the State to provide for summary eviction of persons from such lands and for matters connected therewith. WHEREAS both Houses of the Legislature of the State were not in session ; AND WHEREAS the number of unauthorised occupants on vacant lands in the urban areas in the State was rapidly increasing and was causing grave danger to the public health and sanitation, and peaceful life of the inhabitants of such areas ; AND WHEREAS the Governor of Maharashtra was satisfied that circumstances existed which rendered it necessary for him to take immediate action to prohibit unauthorised occupation of vacant lands in the urban areas in the State, and to provide for summary eviction of persons from such lands and for matters connected therewith and, therefore, promulgated the Maharashtra Vacant Lands (Prohibition of the Unauthorised Occupation and Summary Eviction) Ordinance, 1975, on the 11th Novem- ber 1975 ; AND WHEREAS it is expedient to replace the said Ordinance by an Act of the State Legislature; It is hereby enacted in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows :-