{ "act_title": "The State Acquisition (Ad-interim Payment) Act, 1957 (East Pakistan Act)", "act_no": "XXXIII", "act_year": "1957", "publication_date": "19/07/2025", "sections": [ { "section_content": "1. (1) This Act may be called the1[* * *] State Acquisition (Ad-interim Payment) Act, 1957.(2) It extends to the whole of2[Bangladesh].(3) It shall come into force at once." }, { "section_content": "2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant to the subject or context,-(1)\t“prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;(2)\t“Revenue-officer” includes any officer whom the Government may appoint to discharge all or any of the functions of a Revenue-officer under this Act or any rules made thereunder; and(3) \tall other words and expressions used in this Act shall have the same meanings as in the3[* * *] State Acquisition and Tenancy Act, 1950." }, { "section_content": "3. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1), (3) and (4) of section 6 of the4[* * *]State Acquisition and Tenancy Act, 1950(hereinafter referred to as the said Act), a rent-receiver, whose interests in any estate, taluk, tenure, holding or tenancy or part thereof, not held under wakf, wakf-al-aulad, debutter or any other trust, have been acquired under sub-section (1) of section 3 of the said Act after the 1st day of April, 1956, shall, with effect from the date of such acquisition, be entitled to receive annually, in cash, in respect of such interests, at such time and in such manner as may be prescribed, an ad-interim payment at the rate of one-sixth of the net income calculated according to the provisions in sub-section (2).(2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), the net income of a rent-receiver from any estate, taluk, tenure, holding or tenancy or part thereof shall be calculated by deducting from the gross assets, consisting of the aggregate of the rents and cesses which were payable to such rent-receiver by his immediately subordinate tenants in such estate, taluk, tenure, holding, tenancy or part thereof for the agricultural year immediately preceding the date of acquisition, the following, namely:-(a) \tthe sums which were or are calculated as payable by such rent-receiver for such year as land revenue or rent and cesses to the Government or to his immediate landlord, as the case may be, in respect of such estate, taluk, tenure, holding, tenancy or part thereof;(b) \tthe sums which were or are calculated as payable by such rent-receiver in respect of such assets for such year as taxes under the Bengal Agricultural Income-tax Act, 1944 and the5[Income-tax Ordinance, 1984(XXXVI of 1984)];(c) \tthe average annual expenditure, if any, incurred by such rent-receiver on account of maintenance of any irrigation or protective works in such estate, taluk, tenure, holding, tenancy, or part thereof; and(d)\tcollection charges not exceeding twenty per centum of the gross assets.(3) In calculating the amounts of deduction under sub-section (2), the Revenue-officer shall be guided by such rules as may be made in this behalf by the Government." }, { "section_content": "4. (1) For the purpose of calculating the net income under section 3, the Revenue-officer shall publish a proclamation in the prescribed manner in every village requiring the rent-receivers concerned to furnish, within sixty days from the date of publication of the proclamation or within such further time as may be allowed by the Revenue-officer on application, statements in the prescribed forms showing therein their gross assets and deductible amounts as referred to in sub-section (2) of section 3 and such other particulars as may be prescribed:Provided that the Government may, at any time, by notification in the official Gazette, allow such of the rent-receivers, as have not already furnished such statements in pursuance of the said Proclamation, a second opportunity to furnish the same to the Revenue-Officer within such period as may be specified in the notification.(2) The net income shall be calculated by the Revenue-officer after considering the returns furnished under sub-section (1) and making such enquiry as he thinks fit.(3) The submission of the statements required under sub-section (1) shall be the condition precedent to the making of ad-interim payments under section 3." }, { "section_content": "5. Any person aggrieved by an order of the Revenue-officer determining the amount of any ad-interim payment under section 3 may, within a prescribed period and in the prescribed manner, present an appeal in writing to a prescribed superior Revenue Authority, and the decision of such Authority and also, subject only to such decision an order of the Revenue-officer passed under that section shall be final." }, { "section_content": "6. Notwithstanding anything contained in theCode of Civil Procedure, 1908, and the6[* * *] Public Demands Recovery Act, 1913, any amount payable to a rent-receiver under section 3 shall not be liable to attachment in execution of any decree or order of a Civil Court or of a certificate signed under the7[* * *] Public Demands Recovery Act, 1913, other than a decree or certificate for the recovery of arrears of revenue, rent or cesses due in respect of the interests to which such payment relates." }, { "section_content": "7. With effect from the 1st day of the agricultural year next following the date of publication in the official Gazette of a notification under sub-section (2) of section 43 of the said Act, declaring that a Compensation Assessment-roll has been finally published, the ad-interim payment under section 3 in respect of the interest for which compensation has been assessed in such roll shall cease; and the total amount of ad-interim payments made under section 3 in respect of any such interests, less an amount calculated at the rate of three per centum per annum on the amount of compensation assessed for such interests in such roll from the date of acquisition of such interests under sub-section (1) of section 3 of the said Act till the last day of the agricultural year in which such notification is so published, shall be deducted from the amount of such compensation before proceeding to make payment of such compensation under sub-section (1) of section 58 of the said Act." }, { "section_content": "8. [Option.- Omitted by section 3 and the Second Schedule of theBangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973(Act No. VIII of 1973).]" }, { "section_content": "9. The Government may make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act." }, { "section_content": "10. [Repeal and saving.- Repealed by section 3 and the Second Schedule of the Repealing and Amending Ordinance, 1966 (East Pakistan Ordinance No. XIII of 1966).]" } ], "footnotes": [ { "footnote_text": "1The words “East Pakistan” were omitted by Article 6 of theBangladesh (Adaptation of Existing Laws) Order, 1972(President’s Order No. 48 of 1972)" }, { "footnote_text": "2The word “Bangladesh” was substituted for the words “East Pakistan” by section 3 and the Second Schedule of theBangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973(Act No. VIII of 1973)" }, { "footnote_text": "3The words “East Bengal” were omitted by Article 6 of theBangladesh (Adaptation of Existing Laws) Order, 1972(President’s Order No. 48 of 1972)" }, { "footnote_text": "4The words “East Bengal” were omitted by Article 6 of theBangladesh (Adaptation of Existing Laws) Order, 1972(President’s Order No. 48 of 1972)" }, { "footnote_text": "5The words, comma, figures and brackets “Income-tax Ordinance 1984 (XXXVI of 1984)” were substituted for the words, comma, figures and brackets “Income-tax Act, 1922 (XI of 1922)” by section 3 and the Second Schedule of theBangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973(Act No. VIII of 1973)" }, { "footnote_text": "6The word “Bengal” was omitted by Article 6 of theBangladesh (Adaptation of Existing Laws) Order, 1972(President’s Order No. 48 of 1972)" }, { "footnote_text": "7The word “Bengal” was omitted by Article 6 of theBangladesh (Adaptation of Existing Laws) Order, 1972(President’s Order No. 48 of 1972)" } ], "copyright_info": { "copyright_text": "Copyright©2019, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs DivisionMinistry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs" }, "source_url": "http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/act-print-275.html", "fetch_timestamp": "2025-07-19 02:11:46", "csv_metadata": { "act_title_from_csv": "The State Acquisition (Ad-interim Payment) Act, 1957 (East Pakistan Act)", "act_no_from_csv": "XXXIII", "act_year_from_csv": "1957", "is_repealed": false }, "token_count": 1375, "language": "english", "government_context": { "govt_system": "Republic of Pakistan", "position_head_govt": "President of Pakistan", "head_govt_name": "Iskander Ali Mirza", "head_govt_designation": "President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan", "how_got_power": "Constitutional election/transition", "period_years": "1956-1958", "years_in_power": 2 }, "processing_info": { "processed_timestamp": "2025-07-19 19:33:21", "enhanced_with_reducer": true, "enhanced_with_govt_context": true, "language_detected": "english", "token_count": 1231, "legal_context_added": true, "legal_context_timestamp": "2025-07-19 20:26:26", "year_standardized": true, "year_standardization_timestamp": "2025-07-19 20:36:01", "token_count_updated": true, "token_count_update_timestamp": "2025-07-19 20:56:09", "previous_token_count": 1231, "accurate_token_count": 1375 }, "legal_system_context": { "period_info": { "period_name": "East Pakistan Period", "year_range": "1947-1971", "act_year": 1957 }, "legal_framework": { "primary_laws": [ "Government of India Act 1935 (adapted)", "Pakistan Constitution 1956", "Pakistan Constitution 1962" ], "court_system": [ "Dhaka High Court (1948)", "District Courts", "Federal Court/Supreme Court of Pakistan" ], "legal_basis": "Adapted British-Indian laws with Islamic provisions", "enforcement_mechanism": "Pakistani legal system" }, "government_system": { "type": "Federal Parliamentary (1947-1958), Presidential (1958-1971)", "structure": "Provincial government under federal system", "revenue_collection": "Federal and provincial taxation", "administrative_units": [ "Province", "Districts", "Thanas" ] }, "policing_system": { "law_enforcement": "East Bengal/East Pakistan Police", "military_police": "Pakistan Army and paramilitary forces", "jurisdiction": "Provincial police under federal oversight" }, "land_relations": { "tenure_system": "East Bengal State Acquisition and Tenancy Act 1950", "property_rights": "Abolition of zamindari system", "revenue_system": "Direct government land revenue", "peasant_status": "Farmers as direct tenants to state" }, "key_characteristics": [ "Zamindari abolition (1951)", "Language movement legal issues (1952)", "Military rule periods (1958-1971)", "Constitutional crises and martial law", "Bengali autonomy demands and legal frameworks" ], "context_added_timestamp": "2025-07-19 20:26:26" } }