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The Government and Local Authority Lands and Buildings (Recovery of Possession) Ordinance, 1970 (East Pakistan Ordinance)

(EAST PAKISTAN ORDINANCE NO. XXIV OF 1970)

Definitions
2. In this Ordinance, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-
 
 
 
 
(a) “building” means a building which vests in, or is owned by, or is in possession or under the management and control of, the Government or a Local Authority, and includes the land appurtenant thereto;
 
 
 
 
(b) “Deputy Commissioner” means the Deputy Commissioner of a District and includes an Additional Deputy Commissioner or a Joint Deputy Commissioner and such other persons as may be appointed by the Government to perform all or any of the functions of a Deputy Commissioner under this Ordinance;
 
 
 
 
(c) “land” means any land which vests in, or is owned by, or is in the possession or under the management and control of, the Government or Local Authority and includes any water;
 
 
 
 
(d) “Local Authority” means a local authority as defined in 1[clause (28) of section 3 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (X of 1897)];
 
 
 
 
(e) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made by the Government under this Ordinance;
 
 
 
 
(f) “unauthorised occupant” means a person who is in occupation of any land or building or part thereof without having obtained the express permission or authority of the Government or the Local Authority
 
 
concerned, as the case may be, and without executing, where necessary, a legal document, and includes-
 
 
 
 
(i) a person unlawfully inducted into any land or building or part thereof by the lessee; and
 
 
 
 
(ii) a lessee who continues in possession of the land or building or part thereof after expiry of term or determination of lease; and
 
 
 
 
(g) the words “lease” and “lessee” have the same meanings as in the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, and the word “lessee” includes his heirs, assigns, legal representatives, members of his family and all persons inducted by him into the demised land.

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    The words, brackets, figures and comma “clause (28) of section 3 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (X of 1897)” were substituted for the words, brackets, figures and comma “clause (23) of section 3 of the Bengal General Clauses Act, 1899 (Bengal Act I of 1899)” by section 3 and the Second Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973)
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