Central Provinces Land-Revenue Act, 1881

The Central Provinces Land-Revenue Act, 1881

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Act ID:	188118
Act Number:	18
Enactment Date:	1881-06-08
Act Year:	1881
Short Title:	The Central Provinces Land-Revenue Act, 1881
Long Title:	An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Land-revenue and the powers of Revenue-officers in the Central Provinces.
Ministry:	Ministry of Home Affairs
Department:	Department of States
Enforcement Date:	08-06-1881


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PART I , OF SURVEY AND SETTLEMENT

CHAPTER I
- PRELIMINARY

PART II

CHAPTER II
- OF REVENUE-OFFICERS: THEIR POWERS AND PROCEDURE

PART III, OF SURVEY AND SETTLEMENT

CHAPTER III
- PRELIMINARY
CHAPTER IV
- OF DEMARCATlON.
CHAPTER V
- OF THE ASSESSMENT OF LAND-REVENUE
CHAPTER VI
- OF CERTAIN INVESTIGATIONS BY THE SETTLEMENT-OFFICER AND THE PREPARATION OF THE RECORD-OF-RIGHTS.
CHAPTER VII
- OF SETTLEMENTS MADE BEFORE THIS ACT COMES INTO FORCE

PART IV OF REVENUE-ADMINISTRATION.

CHAPTER VIII
- OF THE COLLECTION OF LAND REVENUE
CHAPTER IX
- OF REVENUE AND VILLAGE RECORDS.
CHAPTER X
- OF CERTAIN ADDITIONAL POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF REVENUE-OFFICERS.
CHAPTER XI
- VILLAGE-OFFICERS AND PATWARIS

PART V

CHAPTER XII
- MISCELLANEOUS


Section 1. Short title.
Section 2. Enactments repealed.
Section 3. Pending proceedings.
Section 4. Interpretation-clause.
Section 5. Chief Controlling Revenue-authority.
Section 6. Revenue-officers.
Section 7. Appointment, suspension and removal of Commissioners, Deputy and Assistant Commissioners.
Section 8. Appointment, suspension and removal of Tahsildars and Naib Tahsildars.
Section 9. Persons holding office when Act comes into force.
Section 10. Power to appoint additional Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners and Tahsildars.
Section 11. Chief Commissioner may invest Assistant Commissioner with powers of Deputy Commissioner.
Section 12. Officers transferred to retain powers with which they were invested.
Section 13. Provision for discharge of duties of Deputy Commissioner dying or being disabled.
Section 14. Chief Commissioner may alter limits of district or tahsil.
Section 15. Power to invest Revenue-officers, — with power conferred by Code of Civil Procedure; with power to delegate powers.
Section 16. Power of Deputy Commissioners to distribute work.
Section 17. Power of superior Revenue-authorities to withdraw and transfer cases.
Section 18. Power of Revenue-officers to enter on land, &c.
Section 19. Power to make rules to regulate procedure.
Section 20. Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before and to Revenue-officers.
Section 21. Legal practitioner's or agent's fees not allowed unless for special reasons.
Section 22. Appeals.
Section 23. Limitation of appeals.
Section 24. Powers of revision of Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner.
Section 25. Powers of revision or Chief Commissioner.
Section 26. Review of orders.
Section 27. Notification of revenue-survey.
Section 28. Notification of settlement.
Section 29. Power to appoint Settlement-officers; and to suspend and remove them
Section 30. Settlement-officer may be invested with powers of Deputy Commissioner.
Section 31. Certain provisions of Chapter II applied to Settlement-officers.
Section 32. Appointment of Settlement-commissioner; delegation to him of Chief Commissioner’s powers.
Section 33. Power to invest Settlement-officers with Civil Court powers.
Section 34. Chief Settlement-officer to have powers of Deputy Commissioner.
Section 35. Appeals in suits specified in section 33 when to lie to Chief Settlement-officer.
Section 36. Division of civil work between Settlement-officers and ordinary Courts.
Section 37. Provisions of section 31 not to apply to certain suits.
Section 38. Appeal, reference and revision.
Section 39. Duration of settlement-operations.
Section 40. Settlement-officer to invite claims to lands appearing to have no owner.
Section 41. Application of Act XXIII of 1863.
Section 42. Procedure when limited right over land established.
Section 43. Power to form mahals.
Section 44. Settlement-officer may exclude any town or land from settlement-operations.
Section 45. Erection of new, and repair of existing, boundary-marks.
Section 46. Separate sum to be assessed on every mahal.
Section 47. Matters as to which Chief Commissioner is to instruct Settlement-officer
Section 48. What land taken into account in assessing mahal.
Section 49. Assessment to whom to be offered.
Section 50. Sub-settlement to be made with inferior proprietors when settlement is made with superior.
Section 51. Power to give directions as to payment of certain profits of superior proprietors.
Section 52. Power to make rules for reporting assessment for sanction.
Section 53. Offers of assessment to be made subject to revision and confirmation.
Section 54. Option to accept or refuse assessment.
Section 55. Proprietor not accepting in manner prescribed may be deemed to have accepted.
Section 56. Effect of acceptance of assessment.
Section 57. Procedure when assessment is refused.
Section 58. Procedure when only some proprietors accept assessment.
Section 59. Procedure on refusal of assessment in village in which superior and inferior rights co-exist.
Section 60. Procedure on refusal of assessment by inferior proprietors.
Section 61. Allowance to excluded proprietors.
Section 62. Excluded proprietors to have occupancy-rights in their sir-land.
Section 63. Aggregate amount of allowance granted to, and deduction from rent allowed to, excluded proprietor
Section 64. Sub-settlement with malik-makbuzas and other like holders of land.
Section 65. Revenue payable under sub-settlement to be first charge on land.
Section 66. Settlement-officer to apportion assessment over lands held in severalty.
Section 67. to redistribute land according to custom.
Section 68. Settlement-officer to ascertain proprietors.
Section 69. to determine extent of sir-land.
Section 70. to decide disputes among shareholders regarding management of mahal.
Section 71. to determine through what lambardars revenue shall be paid.
Section 72. to ascertain status and rents of tenants.
Section 73. Enquiry into claims to hold free from revenue as against Government.
Section 74. Enquiry as to claims to hold free from revenue as against malguzars.
Section 75. Time from which orders under sections 73 and 74 take effect.
Section 76. Settlement-officer to decide what village-cesses are leviable.
Section 77. to determine certain disputes.
Section 78. Procedure in cases under sections 68,69,70,72 and 77, clauses (b), (c) and (d).
Section 79. Record-of-rights.
Section 80. Chief Commissioner may make rules regarding record-of-rights.
Section 81. Record-of-rights to be made over to Deputy Commissioner.
Section 82. Effect of entries in record-of-rights.
Section 83. Suits to contest certain settlement decisions or entries.
Section 84. Revision of record-of-rights by Chief Commissioner.
Section 85. Proceedings regarding lands the property of Government.
Section 86. Former settlements deemed to have been made under this Act.
Section 87. Effect of awards of proprietary rights at such settlements.
Section 88. When suits for proprietary rights will lie in Civil Courts.
Section 89. Chief Commissioner may allot waste-land to malik-mak-buzas entitled thereto.
Section 90. Power of Chief Commissioner to regulate payment of land-revenue.
Section 91. Arrear.Defaulters.
Section 92. Tahasildar's statement of account to be conclusive evidence of arrear.
Section 93. Notice of demand.
Section 94. Processes for recovery of arrears.
Section 95. Arrest and imprisonment for recovery of arrear.
Section 96. Imprisonment of defaulter in civil jail.
Section 97. Procedure in sales of moveable property.
Section 98. Management of mahal, share of land attached under section 94(c).
Section 99. Effect of attachment.
Section 100. Profits of land how applied.
Section 101. Attachment when to cease.
Section 102. Transfer under section 94(d).
Section 103. Procedure after receipt of sanction to annulment of settlement.
Section 104. Case of a portion of a mahal being managed or farmed.
Section 105. Settlement on expiry of management or farm.
Section 106. Effect of annulment of settlement.
Section 107. Saving of rights in sir-land.
Section 108. Nature of estate taken by purchaser of land sold for arrears due thereon.
Section 109. Rules for sale of immoveable property.
Section 110. Pre-emption at sales.
Section 111. Application of proceeds of sale of immoveable property.
Section 112. Costs recoverable as part of arrear.
Section 113. Matters as to which Chief Commissioner may make rules.
Section 114. Remedies open to person denying that sum demanded as an arrear is due.
Section 115. Limitation of right to set-off, &c., in suit for arrears.
Section 116. Recovery of arrear through Deputy Commissioner instead of by suit.
Section 117. Saving of right of malguzar to demand revenue of land assessed to revenue and held free.
Section 118. Limitation in suits for revenue.
Section 119. Interest on arrears.
Section 120. Correction of record-of-rights.
Section 121. Revision of record in accordance with provision therein contained.
Section 122. Powers of Deputy Commissioner as to correction of entry or revision of record.
Section 123. Power to direct that rule or custom entered in record-of-rights shall be enforced by Government.
Section 124. Suit to set aside proceedings under section 123.
Section 125. Powers of Chief Commissioner as to registration of changes after preparation of record-of-rights.
Section 126. Possession of proprietary rights to be notified.
Section 127. Fine for neglect to give notice of possession.
Section 128. Obligation to aid in preparation of village-papers.
Section 129. Fees for recording changes; from whom leviable.
Section 130. Annual enquiry regarding land held free from revenue.
Section 131. Inspection of revenue-records.
Section 132. Purposes for which, when settlement is not in progress, Deputy Commissioner shall exercise Settlement-officers’ powers.
Section 133. Purposes for which officers may be invested with Settlement-officers’ powers.
Section 134. Cognizance of, and penalty for, offence of injuring boundary-marks.
Section 135. Procedure when person injuring cannot be found.
Section 136. Partition of a mahal into two mahals.
Section 137. Power to make rules as to officers.
Section 138. Duties of lambardars.
Section 139. Lambardars may recover fees and other charges from proprietors.
Section 140. Deputy Commissioner may alter channel through which malik-makbuza pays revenue.
Section 141. Duties of mukaddams.
Section 142. Liabilities imposed by law on landholders to attach to mukaddams.
Section 143. Power of mukaddams to recover certain expenses incurred.
Section 144. Chief Commissioner may make rules as to patwaris.
Section 145. Chief Commissioner may make rules for guidance of Deputy Commissioner in certain matters.
Section 146. Chief Commissioner may define duties of patwaris.
Section 147. Patwaris to produce papers for inspection, and to allow copies to be made.
Section 148. Existing officers confirmed.
Section 149. Lambardars’ and other officers’ dues recoverable as arrears.
Section 150. Holders of sir-land in Sambalpur to provide for remuneration of mukaddams.
Section 151. Right to mines and quarries.
Section 152. Exclusive jurisdiction of Revenue-authorities.
Section 153. For what village-cesses suit lies.
Section 154. Limitation of claims for composition in case of waste-land demarcated as property of Government.
Section 155. Restriction on Revenue and Settlement-officers trading and holding land.
Section 156. When mahal managed or farmed, or upon proclamation under section 98 or 103, rent payable to Deputy Commissioner.
Section 157. Recovery of balances due by farmers.
Section 158. Recovery of revenue due when Act comes into force; and of money payable under Act.
Section 159. Past proceedings for collection of revenue legalized.
Section 160. Chief Commissioner may empower persons by name, or confer powers on classes.
Section 161. Chief Commissioner may vary or cancel orders.
Section 162. Chief Commissioner may make rules and attach penalty to breach thereof.


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