PUNJAB LAND REVENUE ACT, 1887

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Preliminary .

S.1 Title, extent and commencement

S.2 Repeal

S.3 Definitions

S.4 Exclusion of certain land from operation of Act

S.5 Power to vary limits and alter number of tehsils, district and divisions

S.6 Classes of Revenue-officers

S.7 Financial Commissioner

S.8 Appointment of Commissioners, and of Deputy, Assistant and Extra Assistant Commissioners

S.9 Appointment of Tehsildars and Naib-Tehsildars

S.10 Powers of Revenue-officers

S.11 Superintendence and control of Revenue-officers

S.12 Power to distribute business and withdraw and transfer casess

S.13 Appeals

S.14 Limitation for Appeals

S.15 Review by Revenue-officers

S.15(a) Correction of Order

S.16 Revision

S.17 Power to make rules as to procedure

S.18 Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before and to Revenue-officers

S.19 Power to Revenue-officer to summon person

S.20 Mode of service of summons

S.21 Mode of service of notice, order or publication or copy thereof

S.22 .

S.23 Place of sitting

S.24 Holidays

S.25 Discharge of duties of Collector dying or being disabled

S.26 Retention of powers by Revenue-officer on transfer

S.27 Conferment of powers by Revenue-officer

S.28 Rules respecting Kanungos,[-] and village officers

S.29 Village Officers' cess

S.30 Restriction on attachment or assignment of remuneration of kanungos[- ] and village officers

S.31 Records-of-rights and documents included therein

S.32 Making of special revision of record-of-rights

S.33 Annual record

S.34 Making of that part of the annual record which relates to land-owners, assignees of revenue and occupancy tenants

S.35 Making of that part of the annual record which relates to other persons

S.36 Determination of disputes

S.37 Restrictions on variations of entries in records

S.38 Mutation fees

S.39 Penalty for neglect to report acquisition of any right referred to in section 34

S.40 Obligation to furnish information necessary for the preparation of records

S.41 Right of the Government in mines and minerals

S.42 Presumption as to ownership of forests, quarries and waste lands

S.43 Compensation for infringement of rights of third parties in exercise of a right of the Government

S.44 Presumption in favour of entries in Records-of-right and annual records

S.45 Suit for declaratiory decree by persons aggrieved by an entry in a record

S.46 Power to make [rules respecting records and other matters connected therewith

S.47 Records-of-rights and annual records for groups of estates

S.48 Assessment of land revenue

S.48(a) Basis of assessment

S.48(b) Limit of assessment

S.49 Notification of intended reassessment and instructions as to principles of assessment

S.50 Mode of determining assessment

S.51 Announcement of assessment

S.52 Application for reconsideration of assessment

S.53 Confirmation and duration of assessment

S.53(a) Duration of assessment

S.54 Assessment to remain in force till new assessment takes effect

S.55 Refusal to be liable for assessment and consequences thereof

S.56 Distribution of the assessment of an estate over the holdings comprised therein

S.57 Application for amendment of the distribution of an assessment

S.58 Appeals from orders under sections 52 and 57

S.59 Special assessments

S.60 Power to make rules

S.60(a) Procedure to be followed in making rules

S.60(b) Rules and executive instructions issued before commencement of Punjab Land Revenue (Amendment) Act, 3 of 1928, to be followed for the purpose of assessment operations begun before issue of rules made under the provisions of section 60-A

S.60(c) Power to issue instructions

S.60(d) Assessing Authority

S.60(e) Levy of additional land revenue

S.60(f) Submission of returns

S.60(g) Penalty for failure to furnish information

S.60(h) Recovery of additional land-revenue

S.60(i) Effect of additional land revenue

S.61 Security for payment of land revenue

S.62 Further security for payment of land-revenue

S.63 Orders to regulate payment of land-revenue

S.64 Rules to regulate collection, remission and suspension of land-revenue

S.65 Costs recoverable as part of arrear

S.66 Certified account to be evidence as to arrear