Section 67: Power for State Government to make rules as to sales of land in execution of decrees for payment of money

In plain words

The State Government can make rules for local areas imposing conditions on selling interests in land so uncertain that their value cannot be fixed, in execution of money decrees, and can continue or modify existing special rules. The rules must be laid before the State Legislature.

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Official text

[(1)] The State Government 2 *** may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for any local area imposing conditions in respect of the sale of any class of interests in land in execution of decrees for the payment of money, where such interest are so uncertain or undetermined as, in the opinion of the State Government, to make it impossible to fix their value.

[(2) When on the date on which this Code came into operation in any local area, any special rules as to sale of land in execution of decrees were in force therein, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette declare such rules to be in force, or may 2 *** by a like notification, modify the same.

Every notification issued in the exercise of the powers conferred by this sub-section shall set out the rules so continued or modified.]

[(3) Every rule made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the State Legislature.]

Source: India Code (indiacode.gov.in), the consolidated text published by the Legislative Department, Government of India. Text as updated on India Code on 15 October 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.

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