- Type
- Act
- Year
- २०१५ BS
- Status
- In force
- Category
- खण्ड १२: खाद्य, कृषि, सहकारी तथा भूमि प्रशासन · Volume 12: Food, Agriculture, Cooperative and Land Administration
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- English translation
- Official English translation archived copy: the original page is no longer online
Includes amendments up to: 2066 BS. Translations may not include later amendments. The Nepali text is the authoritative law.
Analysis drawn from official reports, court rulings and published research, each cited. Figures are being double-checked against the source documents; corrections are welcome.
What does it do?
- This 1958 Act stopped holders of birta land (tax-free land grants) from collecting income from their birta other than the land rent (bali). Under it, birta holders may not lease or collect revenues such as liquor-distillery (bhatti) and hide (charsa) levies on their birta; those revenues belong to the Government of Nepal, which arranges their collection. A transitional rule let birta holders keep 65 percent of such income for 2011/12 to 2013 BS, with the rest payable to the Government.यो २०१५ सालको ऐनले बिर्ता जग्गा (कर नलाग्ने गरी दिइएको जग्गा) धनीलाई बिर्ताबाट जग्गाको बाली (कुत) बाहेक अन्य रकम लिन–खान रोक्यो। यसअनुसार बिर्तावालले आफ्नो बिर्तामा भट्टी, चर्सा र यस्तै अन्य रकम ठेक्का लगाउन वा उठाउन पाउँदैन; त्यस्तो रकम नेपाल सरकारको हुन्छ र त्यसको बन्दोबस्त सरकारले गर्छ। संक्रमणकालीन व्यवस्थाअनुसार २०११/१२ देखि २०१३ सालसम्मको यस्तो आम्दानीको ६५ प्रतिशत बिर्तावालले पाउने र बाँकी सरकारलाई बुझाउनुपर्ने थियो। Nepal Law Commission Preamble; Sections 2–3, pp. 1–2
- Leases of such revenues given earlier by birta holders pass to the Government for their unexpired term, unless they were not properly made or exceed the permitted period. Showing backdated leases, causing loss to the Government, or failing to pay over the income due is punishable by a fine up to the amount involved and/or imprisonment, and the Government recovers the amount.बिर्तावालले पहिले दिएका यस्ता ठेक्का म्याद नसकिएसम्मका लागि नेपाल सरकारमा सर्छन्, रीतपूर्वक नभएका वा तोकिएभन्दा बढी अवधिका ठेक्का मान्य हुँदैनन्। ऐन लागू हुनुअघिको ठेक्का देखाउने, सरकारलाई नोक्सान पुर्याउने वा बुझाउनुपर्ने आम्दानी नबुझाउनेलाई बिगोबमोजिमसम्म जरिवाना वा कैद वा दुवै सजाय हुन्छ र सरकारी बिगो असुल गरिन्छ। Nepal Law Commission Sections 4–5, p. 2
- Matters involving these revenues that concern the Government are decided summarily by the Chief District Officer, who has court powers for the purpose (with appeal under Section 7). Private documents that gave anyone a right to such revenues are treated as cancelled from FY 2011/12, and no compensation can be claimed since the revenues are now Government property.यी रकमसम्बन्धी नेपाल सरकारसँग सम्बन्ध पर्ने विषय प्रमुख जिल्ला अधिकारीले ठाडो कारबाही गरी निर्णय गर्छन् र यसका लागि उनलाई अदालतसरहको अधिकार हुन्छ (दफा ७ बमोजिम पुनरावेदन लाग्छ)। त्यस्तो रकम लिन–खान पाउने गरी भएका निजी लिखत आर्थिक वर्ष २०११/१२ देखि खारेज भएको मानिन्छ, र रकम सरकारी भएकाले क्षतिपूर्तिको दाबी गर्न पाइँदैन। Nepal Law Commission Sections 6–8, p. 3
Gaps, loopholes and improvement ideas
- Outdated The High-Level Economic Reform Commission listed this Act among laws that curtail economic freedom, raise business costs unnecessarily, are prone to misuse, are needlessly control-oriented and are irrelevant in the present context, and recommended repealing it, along with the Birta Abolition Act, 2016.उच्चस्तरीय आर्थिक सुधार सुझाव आयोगले यो ऐनलाई आर्थिक स्वतन्त्रता कुण्ठित गर्ने, व्यवसायको लागत अनावश्यक रूपमा बढाउने, गलत प्रयोग हुन सक्ने, अनावश्यक नियन्त्रणमुखी र वर्तमान सन्दर्भमा असान्दर्भिक ऐनको सूचीमा राखी बिर्ता उन्मूलन ऐन, २०१६ सँगै खारेज गर्न सिफारिस गरेको छ। High-Level Economic Reform Commission (उच्चस्तरीय आर्थिक सुधार सुझाव आयोग), submitted to the Ministry of Finance HLERC report, legal reform recommendation 24(च)–(छ), printed p. XIII (PDF p. 16)
Ideas to fix it
- The High-Level Economic Reform Commission recommended repealing the Act.उच्चस्तरीय आर्थिक सुधार सुझाव आयोगले यो ऐन खारेज गर्न सिफारिस गरेको छ। Proposed by: High-Level Economic Reform Commission (2081) High-Level Economic Reform Commission (उच्चस्तरीय आर्थिक सुधार सुझाव आयोग), submitted to the Ministry of Finance
Where does it conflict with other laws?
No conflict with another law is documented in the sources we have reviewed so far.