Keyword(s):
Estate Officer, Premises, Public Premises, Unauthorised Occupation
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE EVICTION OF UNAUTHo-
RISED OCCUPANTS FROM PUBLIC PREMISES AND FOR
CERTAIN INCIDENTAL MATTERS
BEit enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Orissa in the Twenty-second Year of the RepubIic
of India, as follows:-
1.(I) This Act may be called the Orissa Public
Short title,
extent and
Premises ( Eviction of ‘Jnauthorised Occupants ) Act, commence-
- m cnt.
(2) It cxtends to the wholc of the State of
Orissa.
(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force
on the 21st December 196 I except sections 13, 18
and 19 which shall come into force at once. - ‘In this Act, unless the context otherwise nefinitioru
requircs-
(a) ‘Board’ means the Orissa State Electricity
Board constituted under the Electricity
(Supply) Act, 1948;
[b)’company’ means 21 Government company
as defined’in section 617 of the Companies
Act, 1956, but shall not include any
suchcompany in which not less than fifty-
one per cent of the paid-up share capital
is held by the Central Government;
(c) ‘Estate Ofier’ means an officer appointed
as such by the State Government under
section 3; - For Statcmenl of O?.jccts and Rcamns scc 0ris.r~Gazelle, Exira-
ordinary, d3tc.i the 6th Jenl~ary,1971 ( No. 41 ).((0 ‘premises’ means any Iand or any building
or part of a building and includes-
(i) the garden, grounds and out houses,
if any, appertaining to such building
or part of a building; and
(ii) any fittings affixed to such building
or part of a building for the more
beneficial enjoyment thereof;
(e) ‘prescribed’ means prescribed by ruIes
made under this Act;
If)’public premises ‘ means any premises
situated within the jurisdiction of a
Municipal Council or Notified Area
Council constituted under the Orissa orism
23 or 1950.
Municipal Act, 1950 and-
I
(i) belonging to or taken on lease by the
State Government or any Company or
by the Board; or
(ii) requisitioned by the State Government;
(g) ‘unauthorised occupation’ in relation r o
any public premises means the occupation
by any person of the public premises
without authority for such occupation and
includes the continuance in occupation by
any person of the public premises after the
authority ( whether by way of grant or any
other mode of transfer ) under which he
was allowed to occupy the premises has
expired or has been determined for any
reason whatsoever.
3* The State Governnlent may, by notifi-
cation-
(a) appoint such persons, being gazztted
officers of Government or officers of
equivalent rank of a Company or the
Board, as they think fit, to be Estate
Oficers for the purposes ofthis Act; and
(b) define the IccaI limits within which or
the categories of public premises in respect
of which each Estate Oficer shall exercise
the powers conferred, and perform the
duties i~posedon Estate Oficers by or
under th~sAct.
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