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If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of the Act, the Government may, by general or special order, do anything not inconsistent with such provisions which appear to the Government to be necessary for the purpose of removing the difficulty: Provided that no such order shall be made under the section after the expiration of two years from the publication of this Act in the Official Gazette. _______ 491 STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS FOR ACT 28 OF 1970 A system of Land Tax, Land Records and classification operations of land are governed in this Union territory by the following Deliberations and Arrete:- Deliberations dated 9th December, 1909 relevant to the Survey of Puducherry. Deliberations dated 13th November 1910 relevant to the Land Tax in the Puducherry Settlements. Decree dated 27-6-1912 approving these Deliberations up to 31-12-1913. Arrete dated 21-1-1910 on the Survey classification operation of land, and finally adopted the provisions of substance of the Deliberations dated 11- 12-1912. According to the substance and provisions of the Deliberations referred to, the land tax was being fixed once in ten years by a Commission set up for this purpose. Reclassification operations under the French law are already overdue. The working group of Land Reforms had also considered it necessary to have a classification of soil and the rate of assessment fixed. The Survey of Puducherry has been undertaken under the provisions of the Puducherry Survey and Boundaries Act, 1967 (8 of 1967). Revenue follow-up is essential and consequently Settlement operations ensue. The existing Land Records maintained do not reflect the actual state of agricultural structure and other economic conditions since there had been no fixity of tenures and no regular agency to make the records up-to-date. At the instance of the Government of India a chapter comprising of sections 15 to 23 on Land Records was adopted in the Puducherry Survey and Boundaries Act, 1967. The provisions of the third chapter followed the pattern of the Tripura State, and they are now found to be not suitable to this Union territory, where the tenure and custom is different from that of the Tripura State. This chapter, is now sought to be deleted and appropriate provisions for the preparation of Land Records are sought to be made in this Bill. In order to introduced a uniform system of Revenue Administration on the lines obtainable in the surrounding areas of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh, and to have a classified records with up- to-date details and, 492 basic date of all agricultural lands, etc., which are an essential prerequisite for implementing the various plan outlays and reformatory measures in accordance with the avowed policy of the Government of India in this regard, preparation of a settled account at the village level based on the survey records prepared under Act 8 of 1967 is found absolutely necessary. The present Bill gives effect to the above proposals. _______ STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS FOR ACT 5 OF 2006 By virtue of section 22 of the Puducherry Settlement Act, 1970, the Government exercises the revisional authority of its own motion or on the application of any person affected by the Orders of the Appellate Authority in respect of any proceedings under section 21 of the Act, Now, it is proposed to confer this revisional powers to the Secretary to the Government of Pondicherry (Revenue and Disaster Management) and to provide for amendments accordingly to section 2 and 22 of the Act. It is also proposed to provide for consequential transitory provisions. The Bill seeks to achieve the above objects. _______