Power for State Government to make rules as to sales of land in execution of decrees for payment of money
Full Text
(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for any local area imposing conditions in respect of the sale of any class of interests in land in execution of decrees for the payment of money, where such interest are so uncertain or undetermined as, in the opinion of the State Government, to make it impossible to fix their value.
(2) When on the date on which this Code came into operation in any local area, any special rules as to sale of land in execution of decrees were in force therein, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette declare such rules to be in force, or may by a like notification, modify the same.
Every notification issued in the exercise of the powers conferred by this sub-section shall set out the rules so continued or modified.
(3) Every rule made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the State Legislature.
Plain English Summary
Section 67 empowers the State Government to frame rules regulating the execution sale of land or uncertain interests in land for satisfaction of money decrees, preserve or modify local pre-existing land sale rules, and mandates that all such rules be laid before the State Legislature.
Key Legal Elements
- Rule-Making Power for Land Sales: Empowers State Governments to impose conditions on execution sales of uncertain landed interests.
- Uncertain or Undetermined Interests: Applies specifically where value cannot be reliably appraised without special conditions.
- Continuance & Modification of Local Rules (Sec 67(2)): Validates and continues special local land sale customs and enactments.
- Legislative Oversight (Sec 67(3)): Obligates the executive to lay all framed rules before the State Legislature.
Practical Note
Protection of Agrarian Land Tenure & Subordinate Legislation: (1) Preventing Distress Undervaluation: Section 67 serves as an agrarian safeguard preventing predatory distress auctions of fragmented, occupancy, or customary land tenures whose market values are indeterminate. (2) Subordinate Legislation: Execution practitioners in states with customary land tenures (such as tribal areas, ryotwari holdings, or local tenancy acts) must consult local State Gazette notifications framed under Section 67, as they prevail over the standard auction mechanics of Order XXI.
हिंदी पाठ
(1) राज्य सरकार, शासकीय राजपत्र में अधिसूचना द्वारा, धन के संदाय की डिक्रियों के निष्पादन में भूमि में के किसी वर्ग के हितों के विक्रय के संबंध में शर्तें अधिरोपित करते हुए किसी स्थानीय क्षेत्र के लिए ऐसे नियम बना सकेगी, जहां ऐसे हित इतने अनिश्चित या अनिर्धारित हैं कि राज्य सरकार की राय में उनका मूल्य नियत करना असंभव हो जाता है।
(2) जब उस तारीख को जिसको यह संहिता किसी स्थानीय क्षेत्र में प्रवृत्त हुई, डिक्रियों के निष्पादन में भूमि के विक्रय के संबंध में कोई विशेष नियम उसमें प्रवृत्त थे, तब राज्य सरकार, शासकीय राजपत्र में अधिसूचना द्वारा ऐसे नियमों के प्रवृत्त रहने की घोषणा कर सकेगी, अथवा वैसी ही अधिसूचना द्वारा उन्हें उपरूपांतरित (संशोधित) कर सकेगी।
इस उपधारा द्वारा प्रदत्त शक्तियों के प्रयोग में जारी की गई प्रत्येक अधिसूचना में इस प्रकार जारी रखे गए या उपरूपांतरित नियम उल्लिखित होंगे।
(3) इस धारा के अधीन बनाया गया प्रत्येक नियम बनाए जाने के पश्चात् यथाशक्य शीघ्र राज्य विधान-मंडल के समक्ष रखा जाएगा।