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287                  THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                                 (Sixth Schedule)

respect of all areas within such region and the District Council for an
autonomous district in respect of all areas within the district except those
which are under the authority of Regional Councils, if any, within the
district shall have power to make laws with respect to—
              (a) the allotment, occupation or use, or the setting apart, of
       land, other than any land which is a reserved forest for the purposes
       of agriculture or grazing or for residential or other non-agricultural
       purposes or for any other purpose likely to promote the interests of
       the inhabitants of any village or town:
              Provided that nothing in such laws shall prevent the
       compulsory acquisition of any land, whether occupied or unoccupied,
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       for public purposes 1[by the Government of the State concerned] in
       accordance with the law for the time being in force authorising such
       acquisition;                        aC
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              (b) the management of any forest not being a reserved forest;
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              (c) the use of any canal or water-course for the purpose of
       agriculture;
              (d) the regulation of the practice of jhum or other forms of
       shifting cultivation;
              (e) the establishment of village or town committees or councils
       and their powers;
              (f) any other matter relating to village or town administration,
       including village or town police and public health and sanitation;
              (g) the appointment or succession of Chiefs or Headmen;
              (h) the inheritance of property;
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                 [(i) marriage and divorce;]
              (j) social customs.
       (2) In this paragraph, a “reserved forest” means any area which is a
reserved forest under the Assam Forest Regulation, 1891, or under any other
law for the time being in force in the area in question.


1. Subs. by the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971 (81 of 1971), s. 71(i)
   and Eighth Sch., for certain words (w.e.f. 21-1-1972).
2. Subs. by the Assam Reorganisation (Meghalaya) Act, 1969 (55 of 1969), s. 74 and
   Fourth Sch., for cl. (i) (w.e.f. 2-4-1970).

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