10.Definition.- Niji jot means khudkasht demarcated under the provision of this Chapter.
11.Application for demarcation.- (1) It, at the commencement of this Act, the proprietor of a village or a part thereof
or a specific area therein, was cultivating any land as khudkasht, he may, within six months of such
commencement, apply to the sub-divisional officer for demarcation of such khudkasht as niji jot.
(2) With his application, the applicant shall file a list, giving the area and survey number or other description of the
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khudkasht to be so demarcated and such other particulars as may be prescribed.
12.Order of demarcation of niji jot.- (1) On the receipt of such application, the sub-divisional officer shall issue a
proclamation calling upon all persons who claim an interest in such land to file objections if any, within the period
specified in such proclamation.
(2) If, after hearing the objections, if any, and making such further inquiry as he deems fit, the sub-divisional officer
is satisfied that the land to be demarcated as niji jot has been held by the applicant as his khudkasht since the
agricultural year beginning on the first day of June, 1948, he shall pass an order for the demarcation of such land
as niji jot and submit the record of the case for confirmation of the order passed by him to the collector.
13.Demarcation.- The sub-divisional officer shall have the demarcation made on the spot and shall prepare and
place on record a map, indicating the plots demarcated as niji jot.
14.Status of tenant of niji jot.- A landlord may let his niji jot subject to the same restrictions as apply to sub-letting
by a hereditary tenant under section 27 :
Provided that if such landlord lets his land which is niji jot in contravention of the provisions of this section, such
land shall cease to be niji jot and the person to whom the land is so let shall become hereditary tenant thereof.
15.Succession of niji jot.- On the death of the holder of niji jot the niji jot rights shall devolve in accordance with the
law which regulates the succession of proprietary right in such land.
16.Collectors' powers to let to tenants.- It the collector is satisfied that the landlord of an estate or village, without
good reason, keeps large areas of his niji jot and other culturable land uncultivated, or that an emergency has
arisen for bringing under cultivation land which has not been previously cultivated or, if previously cultivated, has
remained uncultivated for more than three years, he may,
(i) with the previous sanction of the Chief Commissioner, take possession of such land, and
(ii) notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Act, allot it for cultivation on such terms and
conditions as may be prescribed, and
the person to whom the land is so allotted shall, unless he is the landlord of such land, be deemed to have been
admitted as tenant within the meaning of clause (b) of section 22 :
Provided that, while giving his sanction under clause (i), the Chief Commissioner may exempt from its operation
any land which is used as pasture land or threshing-floor, or for some other purpose for the benefit of the public.