Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to --- (a) lands owned or vested in the Government of the Union territory of Puducherry, the Government of India, the Government of any State in India, a local authority, or any other authority which the Government may, in public interest, exempt, by notification in the Official Gazette, from the provisions of this Chapter. *[Provided that the exemption under this clause shall not apply to lands owned by the Government and held by any person under lease whether current or time expired or otherwise. Explanation I. – For the purposes of this clause, lands escheated to the Government and held by tenant entitled to fixity of tenure under section 8 shall not be deemed to be lands owned by the Government of the Union territory of Puducherry. Explanation II. – Lands, the right, title and interest in respect of which have vested in the Government under sub-section (9) of section 74 or under section 80 shall not be deemed to be lands owned by the Government of the Union territory of Puducherry. Explanation III. - For the purposes of this clause ‘other authority’ shall include a corporation owned or controlled by the Government of the Union territory of Puducherry or the Government of any State or the Central Government.] (b) lands taken under the management of the court of wards: Provided that the exemption under this clause shall cease to apply at the end of three years from the commencement of this act; (c) lands comprised in mills, factories or workshops and which are necessary for the use of such mills, factories or workshops; (d) *[omitted] (e) *[omitted] ________________________________________________________________________ * Amended vide Act No.1 of 1981 w.e.f 1-4-1981vide Notification published in the Extraordinary Gazette No.32 dated 30.03.1981. 164 (f) lands mortgaged to the Government, or to a co-operative society (including a co-operative land mortgage bank) registered or deemed to be registered under the Co-operative Societies Act for the time being in force, as security for any loan advanced by the Government or by such society; so long as the mortgage subsists: Provided that the exemption under this clause shall cease to apply at the end of three years from the commencement of this Act; *[(g) lands purchased by a Co-operative Land Mortgage Bank or by the Puducherry State Co-operative Bank or by a Primary Agricultural Credit Co- operative Society under the law for the time being in force relating to such Bank or Society, or by a scheduled bank as defined in the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 so long as such lands continued in the possession of the Bank or the Society, as the case may be] (h) lands belonging to or held by an industrial or commercial undertaking at the commencement of this Act, and set apart for use for the industrial or commercial purpose of the undertaking: Provided that the exemption under this clause shall cease to apply if such land is not actually used for the purpose for which it has been set apart, within such time as the Collector may, by notice to the undertaking, specify in that behalf; *[(i) house sites, that is to say, sites occupied by dwelling houses and lands, wells, tanks and other structures necessary for the convenient enjoyment of the dwelling houses. Explanation. – For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that a compound wall shall not be deemed to be a structure necessary for the convenient enjoyment of a dwelling house, if the land on which the dwelling house is situated and enclosed by the compound wall is more than the land necessary for the convenient enjoyment of the dwelling house]. (j) *[omitted] (k) sites of temples, churches, mosques and cemeteries and burial and burning grounds; (l) sites of buildings including warehouses; (m) commercial sites; (n) lands occupied by educational institutions including land necessary for the convenient use of the institutions and playgrounds attached to such institutions: ________________________________________________________________________ * Amended vide Act No.1 of 1981 w.e.f 1-4-1981vide Notification published in the Extraordinary Gazette No.32 dated 30.03.1981. 165 (o) land owned or held by --- (i) a University established by law; or (ii) a religious, charitable or educational institution of a public nature; or (iii) a public trust (which expression shall include a wakf); Provided that --- (i) the entire income of such lands is appropriated for the University, institution or trust concerned; and (ii) where the University, institution or trust comes to hold the said lands after the commencement of this Act, the Government have certified previously that such lands are bona fide required for the purposes of the University, institution or trust, as the case may be; and (p) *[omitted] (2) *[omitted] (3) *[The Government may, if they are satisfied that it is necessary to do so in the public interest --- (a) on account of any special use to which any land is put; or (b) on account of any land being bona fide required for the purpose of conversion into plantation or for the extension or preservation of an existing plantation or for any commercial, industrial, educational or charitable purpose, by notification in the Official Gazette, exempt such land form the provisions of this Chapter subject to such restrictions and conditions as they may deem fit to impose: Provided that the land referred to in clause (b) shall be used for the purpose for which it is intended within such time as the Government may specify in that behalf and where the land is not so used within the time specified, the exemption shall cease to be in force]. Ceiling area