1.Short title, extent and commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the Land Acquisition Act,
1894 ;
(2) It extends to the whole of India except Part B States; and
(3) It shall come into force on the first day of March, 1894.
(Part I - Preliminary)
2.[Repeal ] Rep.party by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1914 (10 of 1914), s.3 and Sch.II,
and partly by the Repealing Act, 1938 (1 of 1938), s.2and Sch.
3.Definication:- In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context,-
(a) the expression"land" includes benefits to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth or
permanently fastended to anything attached to the earth;
(b) the expression " person interested" includes all persons claiming an interest in compensation
to be made on accout of the acquisition of land under this Act; and a person shall be deemed to
be interested in land if he is interested in an easement affecting the land;
(c) the expression "Collector" means the Collector of a district, and includes a Depurty
Commissioner and any officer specially appointed by the appropriate Government to perform the
function of a Collector under this Act;
(d) the expression "Court" means a principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction, unless the
appropriate Government has appointed (as it is hereby empowered to do) a special juducial
officer within any specifed lacal limits to perfom the functions of the Court under this Act;
(e) the expression "Company" means a Company registered under the {See now the Indian
Companies Act, 1913( 7 of 1913)} Indian Companies Act, 1882, or under the (English)
Companies Acts, 1862 to 1890, or incorporated by an Act of Parliament {Ins.by the A.O.1950.} [
of the United Kingdom] or by an Indian law, or by Royal Charter or Letters Patent {Ins.by Act 17
of 1919, s.2.}[ and includes a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, and a
registered society within the meaning of the Co-operative Societies Act, 1912];
{Ins.by the A.O.1950.}[(ee) the expression "appropriate Government" means, in relation to
acquisition of land for the purposes of the Union, the Central Government, and, in relation to
acquisition of land for any other purposes, the State Government].
(f)The expression " public purpose" includes the provision of village-sites In districts in which the
appropriate Government shall have declared by notification in the Official Gazette that it is
customary for the Government to make such provision; and
(g) the following persons shall be deemed persons "entitled to act" as and to the extent
hereinafter provided (that is to say)-
trustees for other persons beneficially interested shall be deemed the persons entitled to act with
reference to any such case, and that to the same extent as the persons beneficially interested
could have acted if free from disability;
a married woman, in cases to which the English law is applicable, shall be deemed the person so
entitled to act, and whether of full age or not, to the same extent as if she were unmarried and of
full age ; and
the guardians of minors and the committees or managers of lunatics or idiots shall be deemed
respectively the persons so entitled to act, the same extent as the minors, lunatics or idiots
themselves, if free from disability , could have acted:
Provided that-
(i) no person shall be deemed "entitled to act" whose interest in the subject- matter shall be
shown to the satisfaction of the Collector or Court to be adverse to the interest of the person
interested for whom he would otherwise be entitled to act;
(ii) in every such case the person interested may appear by a next friend or, in default of his
appearance by a next friend, the Collector or Court , as the case may be , shall appoint a
guardian for the case to act on his behalf in the conduct thereof ;
(iii) the provisions of {See now the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), Sch.I Order XXXII.}
Chapter XXXI of the Code of Civil Procedure shall , mutatis mutandis, apply in the case of
persons interested appearing before a Collector or Court by a next friend, or by a guardian for the
case, in proceedings under this Act ; and
(iv) no person "entitled to act" shall be competent to receive the compensation- money payable to
the person for whom he is entitled to act unless he would have been competent to alienate the
land and receive and give a good discharge for the purphase- many on a voluntary sale.