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Damaged Areas (Debris and Salved Property) Rules, 1949

The Damaged Areas (Debris and Salved Property) Rules, 1949

Published vide Punjab Government Notification No. 8596LG(A)-05/2-10114, dated the 1st December, 1950.

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  1. (1) These rules may be called the Damaged Areas (Debris and Salved Property) Rules, 1950.

(2) They shall come into force at once.

  1. The possession of any debris or salved property shall vest, pending its disposal in accordance with or under the provisions of the East Punjab Damaged Areas Act, 1949 (hereinafter referred to the said Act), in the Claims Commissioner for the damaged area.
  2. Any person in possession of debris or salved property not belonging to him shall deposit such property with the Claims Commissioner of the damaged are a in accordance with such instructions, if any, as he may choose to give.
  3. (1) The record in writing relating to salved property, as required by sub-section (1) of Section 8 of the said Act, shall be prepared by the staff of the Town Improvement Trust of the area concerned.

(2) Such record shall be prepared separately for each mohalla of the damaged area.

(3) The following details in respect of each item of salved property shall be required to be given in the record:-

(i) serial number,

(ii) nature of the article,

(iii) brief description, size and identification marks, if any, of the article, and

(iv) approximate location of the article at the time of its recovery in relation to the nearest identifiable building.

(4) The entries relating to each article in the record shall be attested by the magistrate, if any, who was present at the time of its recovery.

(5) The record on its completion shall be open to inspection at the office of the Claims Commissioner of the damaged area to which it relates between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on each working day.

  1. An application under sub-section (1) of section 12 of the said Act shall contain the following particulars:-

(a) name and parentage of applicant,

(b) Address of applicant when salved property was lost,

(c) address of applicant at the time of application,

(d) details of the salved property which or the proceeds of which are claimed showing in respect of each article:-

(i) serial number,

(ii) brief description of the article,

(iii) location of article as last known to applicant,

(iv) serial number of article in the record referred to in rule 4(3).

  1. The Claims Commissioner appointed in respect of any damaged area shall maintain a record in the following form in respect of claims received by him under section 12 of the said Act:

(i) serial number of application,

(ii) particulars of application,

(iii) details of each article covered by application,

(iv) serial number of each article in the record referred to in rule 4(3),

(v) abstract of the final orders of the Claims Commissioner

(vi) signature of the recipient of any articles or their proceeds.