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Section 29
The Uttar Pradesh Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1960Uttar Pradesh

Section 29. Subsequent declaration of further land as surplus land

1[ 29. Where after the date of enforcement of the Uttar Pradesh Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings (Amendment) Act, 1972,—

(a) any land has come to be held by a tenure-holder under a decree or order of any court, or as a result of succession or transfer, or by prescription in consequence of adverse possession, and such land together with the land already held by him exceeds the ceiling area applicable to him ; or

(b) any unirrigated land becomes irrigated land as a result of irrigation from a State irrigation work or any grove-land loses its character as grove-land or any land exempted under this Act ceases to fall under any of the categories exempted, —

The ceiling area shall be liable to be re-determined 2[and accordingly the provisions of this Act, except section 16, shall mutatis mutandis apply.]

1Superscript markers show text inserted or substituted by a later amendment. The Act carries the markers without the footnotes they refer to, so they are shown without a target.