(1) This Act may be called the Rajasthan Jagirdars Compensation and Rehabilitation Grants (Final Orders Validation) Act, 1959. (2) It shall come into force at once.
Notwithstanding anything contained in notification No. 3617/JC/56, dated the 8th May, 1956, issued by the Jagir Commissioner of the State of Rajasthan, in pursuance of the power conferred on him by sub-section (2) of section 42A of the Rajasthan Land Reforms and Resumption of Jagirs Act, 1952 (Rajasthan Act 6 of 1952), hereinafter referred to as the said Act, and notwithstanding any want or defect of jurisdiction, all final orders made under sub-section (2) of section 32 and under sub-section (2) of section 38B of the said Act from the date of the said notification till the date of the commencement of this Act in respect of jagir lands resumed under the said Act,- (a) by Collectors in cases where the gross annual income from such jagir lands did not exceed five thousand rupees, and (b) by Commissioners of divisions, in cases where the gross annual income from such jagir lands exceeded five thousand rupees by did not exceed ten thousand rupees, shall be deemed to have been lawfully and validly made by them as if under proper authority and no such final order shall be liable to be called in question in any tribunal or court merely on the ground that the Collector or the Commissioner, as the case may be, had no authority or power to make such final order or to take any proceedings in furtherance of the making thereof.