Punjab Land-Revenue Act, 1887

The Punjab Land-Revenue Act, 1887

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Act ID:	188717
Act Number:	17
Enactment Date:	1887-09-23
Act Year:	1887
Short Title:	The Punjab Land-Revenue Act, 1887
Long Title:	An Act to amend and declare the Land-revenue Law of the Punjab.
Ministry:	Ministry of Rural Development
Department:	Department of Land Resources


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CHAPTER I

PRELIMINARY

CHAPTER II

REVENUE-OFFICERS.

CHAPTER III

KANUNGOS, ZAILDARS, INAMDARS AND VILLAGE-oFFICERS.

CHAPTER IV

RECORDS.
Procedure for making Records
Rights of the Government and presumptions with respect thereto and to other matters
Supplemental Provisions.

CHAPTER V

ASSESSMENT.
Special Assessments.

CHAPTER VI

COLLECTION OF LAND-REVENUE.
Procedure in Sales.

CHAPTER VII

RECOVERY OF OTHER DEMANDS BY REVENUE-OFFICERS.

CHAPTER VIII

SURVEYS AND BOUNDARIES.

CHAPTER IX

PARTITION.

CHAPTER X

ARBITRATION.

CHAPTER XI

SPECIAL JURISDICTION WITH RESPECT TO LAND.

CHAPTER XII

SUPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS.


Section 1. Title, extent and commencement.
Section 2. Repeal.
Section 3. Definitions.
Section 4. Exclusion of certain land from operation of Act.
Section 5. Power to vary limits and alter number of tahsils, districts and divisions.
Section 6. Classes of Revenue-officers.
Section 7. Financial Commissioner.
Section 8. Appointment of Commissioners, and Deputy, Assistant and Extra Assistant Commissioners.
Section 9. Appointment of Tahsildars and Naib-tahsildars.
Section 10. Powers of Revenue-officers.
Section 11. Superintendence and control of Revenue-officers.
Section 12. Power to distribute business and withdraw and transfer cases.
Section 13. Appeals.
Section 14. Limitation for appeals.
Section 15. Review by Revenue-officers.
Section 16. Power to call for, examine and revise proceedings of Revenue-officers.
Section 17. Power to make rules as to procedure.
Section 18. Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before and to Revenue-officers.
Section 19. Power of Revenue-officer to summon persons.
Section 20. Mode of service of summons.
Section 21. Mode of service of notice, order or proclamation or copy thereof.
Section 22. Mode of making proclamation.
Section 23. Place of sitting.
Section 24. Holidays.
Section 25. Discharge of duties of Collector dying or being disabled.
Section 26. Retention of powers by Revenue-officers on transfer.
Section 27. Conferment of powers of Revenue-officers .
Section 28. Rules respecting kanungos, zaildars, inamdars and village-officers.
Section 29. Village-officers’ cess.
Section 30. Restriction on attachment or assignment of remuneration of kanungos, Zaildars, Inamdars and village-officers.
Section 31. Record-of-rights and documents included therein.
Section 32. Making or special revision of record-of-rights.
Section 33. Annual record.
Section 34. Making of that part of the annual record which relates to land-owners, assignees of revenue and occupancy, tenants.
Section 35. Making of that part of the annual record which relates to other persons.
Section 36. Determination of disputes.
Section 37. Restrictions on variation of entries in records.
Section 38. Mutation-fees.
Section 39. Penalty for neglect to report acquisition of any right referred to in section 34.
Section 40. Obligation to furnish information necessary for the preparation of records.
Section 41. Rights of the Government in mines and minerals.
Section 42. Presumption as to ownership of forests, quarries and waste-lands.
Section 43. Compensation for infringement of rights of third parties in exercise of a right of the Government.
Section 44. Presumption in favour of entries in records-of-rights and annual records.
Section 45. Suit for declaratory decree by person aggrieved by an entry in a record.
Section 46. Power to make rules respecting records and other matters connected therewith.
Section 47. Record-of-rights and annual records for groups of estates.
Section 48. Assessment of land-revenue.
Section 49. Notification of intended re-assessment and instructions, as to principles of assessment.
Section 50. Mode of determining assessment.
Section 51. Announcement of assessment.
Section 52. Application for re-consideration of assessment.
Section 53. Confirmation and duration of assessment.
Section 54. Assessment to remain in force till new assessment takes effect.
Section 55. Refusal to be liable for assessment and consequence thereof.
Section 56. Distribution of the assessment of an estate over the holdings comprised therein.
Section 57. Application for amendment of the distribution of an assessment.
Section 58. Appeals from orders under sections 52 and 57.
Section 59. Special assessment.
Section 60. Formation of waste-land into separate estates.
Section 61. Security for payment of land-revenue.
Section 62. Further security for payment of land-revenue.
Section 63. Orders to regulate payment of land-revenue.
Section 64. Rules to regulate collection, remission and suspension of land-revenue.
Section 65. Costs recoverable as part of arrear.
Section 66. Certified account to be evidence as to arrear.
Section 67. Processes for recovery of arrears.
Section 68. Writ of demand.
Section 69. Arrest and detention of defaulter.
Section 70. Distress and sale of moveable property and crops.
Section 71. Transfer of holding.
Section 72. Attachment of estate or holding.
Section 73. Annulment of assessment of estate or holding.
Section 74. Proclamation of attachment or annulment of assessment, and consequences of the proclamation.
Section 75. Sale of estate or holding.
Section 76. Effect of sale on encumbrances.
Section 77. Proceedings against other immoveable property of defaulter.
Section 78. Remedies open to person denying his liability for an arrear.
Section 79. Proclamation of sale.
Section 80. Indemnity to Revenue-officer with respect to contents of proclamation.
Section 81. Publication of proclamation.
Section 82. Time and conduct of sale.
Section 83. Power to postpone sale.
Section 84. Stay of sale.
Section 85. Payment of deposit by highest bidder.
Section 86. Consequences of failure to pay deposit.
Section 87. Exercise of right of pre-emption.
Section 88. Time for payment in full.
Section 89. Procedure in default of payment.
Section 90. Report of sale to Commissioner.
Section 91. Application to set aside sale.
Section 92. Order confirming or setting aside sale.
Section 93. Refund of purchase-money on setting aside of sale.
Section 94. Proclamation after postponement or on re-sale.
Section 95. On confirmation of sale, possession and certificate to be granted to purchaser.
Section 96. Proceeds of sale.
Section 97. Recovery of certain arrears through Revenue-officer instead of by suit.
Section 98. Other sums recoverable as arrears of land-revenue.
Section 99. Application of Chapter VI to sums recoverable under this Chapter.
Section 100. Power of Financial Commissioner to make rules for demarcation of boundaries and erection of survey-marks.
Section 101. Power of Revenue-officers to define boundaries.
Section 102. Cost of erection and repair of survey-marks.
Section 103. Recovery of cost incurred by the Government.
Section 104. Power of Revenue-offices to enter on land for purposes of survey and demarcation.
Section 105. Surveys for purpose of preparation of records.
Section 106. Provision of flag holders and chainmen for those surveys.
Section 107. Professional surveys.
Section 108. Penalty for destruction, injury or removal of survey-marks.
Section 109. Report of destruction or removal of or injury to survey-marks.
Section 110. Effect of partitions of estates and tenancies on joint liability for revenue and rent.
Section 111. Application for partition.
Section 112. Restrictions and limitations on partition.
Section 113. Notice of application for partition.
Section 114. Addition of parties to application.
Section 115. Absolute disallowance of partition.
Section 116. Procedure on admission of application.
Section 117. Disposal of questions as to title in property to be divided.
Section 118. Disposal of other questions.
Section 119. Administration of property excluded from partition.
Section 120. Distribution of revenue and rent after partition.
Section 121. Instrument of partition.
Section 122. Delivery of possessions of property allotted on partition.
Section 123. Affirmation of partition s privately effected.
Section 124. Power to make rules as to costs of partition.
Section 125. Re-distribution of land according to custom.
Section 126. Officer who may be empowered to act under this Chapter.
Section 127. Power to refer to arbitration.
Section 128. Order of reference and contents thereof.
Section 129. Nomination of arbitrators.
Section 130. Substitution of arbitrators by parties.
Section 131. Nomination and substitution of arbitrators by Revenue-officers.
Section 132. Process for appearance before arbitrators.
Section 133. Award of arbitrators and presentation thereof.
Section 134. Procedure on presentation of award.
Section 135. Effect of award.
Section 136. Power to invest officers making records-of-rights or general re-assessments with powers of Civil Courts.
Section 137. Control over such officers and appeals from and revision of their decrees and orders.
Section 138. Power to deposit certain sums other than rent.
Section 139. Procedure in case of deposit on account of a payment due to Government.
Section 140. Procedure in case of other deposits.
Section 141. Orders of Civil and Criminal Courts for execution of processes against land or the produce thereof to be addressed to a Revenue-officer.
Section 142. Attachment of assigned land-revenue.
Section 143. Preservation of attached produce.
Section 144. Division of produce.
Section 145. Village cesses.
Section 146. Superior land-owners’ dues.
Section 147. Substitution of service for payment of land-revenue.
Section 148. Recovery of cost of assessing assigned land-revenue.
Section 149. Penalty for failure to attend within limits of estate in obedience to order of Revenue-officers.
Section 150. Prevention of encroachment on common lands.
Section 151. Papers kept by village-officers to be deemed public documents.
Section 152. Costs.
Section 153. Computation of periods limited for appeals and applications for review.
Section 154. Restriction on Revenue-officers bidding at auctions or trading.
Section 155. Power to make rules.
Section 156. Rules to be made after previous publication.
Section 157. Powers exerciseable by the Financial Commissioner from time to time.
Section 158. Exclusion of jurisdiction of Civil Courts, in matters within the jurisdiction of Revenue-officers.


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