File 4613/1919 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Land Policy (Tenure and Acquisition) (General file)' [‎283r] (5/98)

PROCLAMATION.
r\cc ^ MaJOR-Gbneral G. A. J. Leslie, c.b., c.m.g., in virtue of the authority vested in me as
Urriciating General Officer Commanding-in-Chief His Britannic Majesty’s Forces in Mesopotamia
do hereby proclaim as follows :—
n^' P roc l ama tion may be cited as the Land Acquisition Amendment Regulation, 1920, and
shall read as one with the Land Acquisition Regulation of the 25th September 1918, as amended by
the Proclamation of the 1st April, 1919. J
2. For the second paragraph of Section 12 of the Land Acquisition Regulation the following
is substituted:—
Provided that should any of fhe persons entitled to any part of the acquisition money refuse
or neglect to accept payment or to sign a receipt, or should any such person be a minor
or interdicted or absent or have disappeared or should the land be waqf, the
Acquisition Officer shall deposit the money in the name of the person or persons
entitled, or of the waqf, in the Public Treasury, or in such other manner as may
be directed by the Acquisition Committee, and shall make a note in his own
hand upon the form of receipt that the money has been so deposited and the
reason for his doing so. Such receipt shall be final proof of acquisition for the pur
pose of Section 14.
3. For Section 13 (a) of the Land Acquisition Regulation the following is substituted :—
Should any of the land be waqf the Acquisition Officer instead of proceeding under the fore
going sections may with the consent of the Qadhi in the case of a Sunni waqf and
with the consent of the President pf the Civil Court of First Instance in the case of
any other waqf acquire the same by exchange or by any other method permissible
under the law concerning waqf for the time being in force and shall sign a certificate
to the effect that the land has been so acquired.
4. Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Regulation is amended by substituting for paragraph
(iii) the following :—
(in) The Land Acquisition Gfficer is authorized in assessing value to take into consideration
any increase in the value of the land arising, since the occupation of Basrah by His
Britannic Majesty’s Forces, from causes other than
(a) works of improvement carried out in Mesopotamia by the Army or Civil Government
since the occupation / 1
(b) the demand of the Army or Civil Government for land.
Paragraph (iv) of Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Regulation is hereby repeafed.
Made at Baghdad this 17th day of March, 1920.
(Signed) G. A. J. LESLIE, Major-General, c.b., c.m.g.,
Officiating General Officer Commanding-in-Chief,
Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force.