ANNEX C
| Published date | 01 October 1956 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1956.tb01303.x |
| Date | 01 October 1956 |
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THE
PROCESS
OF
CONSOLIDATION,
ETC.
ANNEX
C
Annex
C.
NOTE
DESCRIBING
THE
PROCESS OF CONSOLIDATION,
ADJUDICATION AND REGISTRATION AND
THE
OFFICERS
REQUIRED
TO
PERFORM
IT
(Reference: Section
VIII,
paragraph 69)
1. Afull
'adjudication
party'
(i.e. a
party
formed
for
the
systematic
adjudication
of
interests
in
land
in
an
area
specially
designated)
will
comprise
an
adjudication
officer
and
one
of
more
registration,
survey
and
demarcation
officers as
required.
These
officers will
be
formally
appointed
(by
name
or
by
office)
when
the
area
is
declared
for
adjudication.
In
addition
there
will
be
such
subordinate
clerical
staff,
chainmen
and
messengers
as
may
be
needed.
2.
The
adjudication
officer is in
charge
of,
and
responsible
for,
the
whole
operation.
He
can
perform
any,
or
all, of
the
duties
of
any
of
the
other
officers (whose
duties
are
expressly
declared
to
be
subject
to
his
directions)
and,
in
smaller
adjudications
and
when
the
process
is
fully
understood
by
the
general
public
as
well as
the
official staff,
an
adjudication
officer
alone
may
be
the
only
appointment
which
is
needed.
3.
It
is
obvious
that
the
qualifications
and
experience
required
in
an
adjudica-
tion
officer will
vary
according
to
the
size
and
difficulty
of
the
declared
adjudication
area.
When
the
whole
idea
is
new,
and
a
big
area
containing
native
rights
of
some
complexity
is
involved,
it
is
specially
important
that
somebody
should
be
chosen
who
is
sure
to
command
the
confidence
of
the
people,
for a
setback
in
the
beginning
might
descredit
the
whole
process.
The
work
itself,
however,
is
essentially
judicial
in
nature
and
some
legal
qualification
or
experience
is
desirable,
but
that
obtained
in
district
administration
may
be
adequate.
4.
The
first
duty
of
the
adjudication
officer will
be
to
publish
notices
of
the
intended
adjudication
and
registration.
Apart
from
the
notices
officially
required
by
law,
he
must
ensure
that
information
actually
reaches
everybody
concerned.
This
should
afford
no difficulty, for
adjudication
proceedings
inevitably
attract
great
attention,
and
indeed
publicity
is
an
outstanding
advantage
of
systematic
adjudica-
tion
and
very
real
safeguard
against
fraud
or
concealment
or
even
more,
oversight.
It
is
an
inherent
defect
of
sporadic
individual
adjudication
that
it
may
pass
un-
noticed
by
persons
interested
even
though
it
has
been
formally
'advertised'.
S.
Before
the
demarcation
or
registration
officers
proceed
to
their
duties
it
will be
necessary
for
the
adjudication
officer
to
hold
a
public
meeting
attended
by
as
many
of
the
notables
and
leading
land
claimants
as
possible
in
order
to
ascertain
the
nature
and
extent
of
the
rights
which
are
to
be
recorded.
These
rights
may
amount
to
full
ownership
or
to
something
less
than
full
ownership.
In
the
latter
case
it
will be
necessary
to
determine
where
ownership
resides.
The
success
of
the
whole
operation
is
likely
to
depend
on
this
first
meeting
even
though
the
ground
has
already
been
carefully
prepared
by
ordinary
administrative
propaganda.
The
tricky
part
is, of
course,
to
decide
what
the
rights
amount
to.
6.
Before
demarcation
is
formally
begun
it
is
preferable
to
have
got
as
far
as
possible
with
the
consolidation
of
dispersed
fragments
and
with
such
replanning
as
may
be
desirable
and
is
agreed,
but
the
demarcation
officer
has
the
power
to
straighten
boundaries
and
to
realign
property
abutting
a
public
road
and
he
can
recommend
to
the
adjudication
officer
compensation
for
any
loss
caused
by
such
adjustment.
If
any
holdings
are
not
now
well
planned
from
the
agricultural
point
of
view
or, if in a
town,
from
the
point
of
view
of
building
development,
it
is
advisable
to
try
and
adjust
them
at
this
stage.
The
demarcation
officer
may
therefore
require
the
assis-
tance
of
an
agricultural
officer
or
town
planner,
or
even
both,
where
peri-urban
areaS
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