HIMACHAL PRADESH LAND REVENUE ACT, 1954

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Preliminary (ACT NO. 6 OF 1954)

S.1 Title, extent and commencement

S.2 Repeal

S.3 Savings

S.4 Definitions

S.5 Exclusion of certain land from operation of Act

S.6 Power to vary limits and alter number of tehsils, 1 [sub-tehsils,] districts and divisions

S.7 Classes of Revenue Officers

S.8 Financial Commissioner

S.9 Appointment of Commissioner etc

S.10 Appointment of Tehsildars and Naib-Tehsildars

S.11 Powers of Revenue Officers

S.12 Superintendence and control of Revenue Officers

S.13 Power to distribute business and withdraw and transfer cases

S.14 Appeals

S.15 Limitation for Appeals

S.16 Review by Revenue Officers

S.17 Power to call for, examine and revise proceedings of Revenue Officers

S.18 Power to make rules as to procedure

S.19 Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before and to Revenue Officers

S.20 Power of Revenue Officer to summon persons

S.21 Mode of service of summons

S.22 Mode of service of notice, order or proclamation, or copy thereof

S.23 Mode of making proclamation

S.24 Place of sitting

S.25 Holidays

S.26 Discharge of duties of Collector dying or being disabled

S.27 Retention of powers by Revenue Officers on transfer

S.28 Conferment of powers to Revenue Officer

S.29 Rules respecting kanungos and village officers

S.30 Village Officer's Cess

S.31 Restriction on attachment or assignment of remuneration of kanungos and village officers

S.32 Record-of-rights and documents included therein

S.33 Making of special revision of record-of-rights

S.33(a) Units of measure to be based on metric system

S.34 [periodical] record

S.34(a) Sub-division of an estate etc.

S.35 Making of that part of the 1 [periodical] record which relates to land owners 2 [etc.] assignees of revenue and occupancy tenants

S.36 Making of that part of the 1, 2 [periodical] record which relates to other persons

S.37 Determination of dispute

S.38 Restrictions on variations of entries in records

S.38(a) Correction of clerical errors

S.39 Mutation fees

S.40 Penalty for neglect to report acquisition of any right referred to in section 35

S.41 Obligation to furnish information necessary for the preparation of records

S.42 Right of the Government in mines and minerals

S.43 Presumption as to owner-ship of forests, quarries and waste lands

S.44 Compensation for infringement of rights of third parties in exercise of right of the Government

S.45 Presumption in favour of entries in records-of-rights and 1 [periodical] records

S.46 Suit for declaratory decree by persons aggrieved by an entry in a record

S.47 Powers to make rules respecting records and other matters connected therewith

S.47(a) Power of the Collector to issue instructions

S.48 Record-of-rights and 1 [a periodical] records for groups of estates

S.49 Assessment of land revenue

S.50 Basis of assessment

S.51 Limit of assessment

S.52 Notification of intended re-assessment and instructions as to principles of assessment

S.53 Mode of determining assessment

S.54 Announcement of assessment

S.55 Application for reconsideration of assessment

S.56 Confirmation and duration of assessment

S.57 Duration of assessment

S.58 Assessment to remain till new assessment takes effect

S.59 Refusal to be liable for assessment of an estate and consequences thereof

S.60 Distribution of the assessment of an estate over the holdings comprised therein

S.61 Application for amendment of the distribution of an assessment

S.62 Appeals from orders under section 55 and 61

S.63 Special assessment

S.64 Power to make rules

S.65 Procedure to be followed in making rules

S.66 Rules and executive instructions issued before commencement of this Act, to be followed for the purpose of assessment operations begun before issue of rules made under the provisions of section 65

S.67 Power to issue instructions

S.68 Security for payment of land revenue

S.69 Further security for payment of land revenue

S.70 Orders to regulate payment of land revenue

S.71 Rules to regulate collection, remission and suspension of land revenue

S.72 Costs recoverable as part of arrear

S.73 Certified account to be evidence as to arrear

S.74 Process for recovery of arrears

S.75 Writ of demand

S.6 Power to vary limits and alter number of tehsils, ¹ [sub-tehsils,] districts and divisions

S.35 Making of that part of the ¹ [periodical] record which relates to land owners ² [etc.] assignees of revenue and occupancy tenants

S.36 Making of that part of the ^{1, 2} [periodical] record which relates to other persons

S.45 Presumption in favour of entries in records-of-rights and ¹ [periodical] records

S.48 Record-of-rights and ¹ [a periodical] records for groups of estates