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THE CENTRAL PROVINCES LAND-REVENUE ACT, 1881

The Central Provinces Land-revenue Act, 1881

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An ACT

Section 1

Preamble

Section 2

Section 1. Short title

Section 1

Section 1. Local extent

Section 1

Section 1. Commencement

Section 1

Section 2. Enactments repealed

Section 2

Section 3. Pending proceedings

Section 3

Section 4. Interpretation-clause

Section 4

Section 4(1)

Section 4

Section 4(2)

Section 4

Section 4(3)

Section 4

Section 4(4)

Section 4

Section 4(5)

Section 4

Section 4(6)

Section 4

Explanation

Section 15

Section 4(7)

Section 4

Section 4(8)

Section 4

Section 4(9)

Section 4

Section 4(10)

Section 4

Section 4(11)

Section 4

Section 4(12)

Section 4

Section 4(13)

Section 4

Section 4(14)

Section 4

Explanation

Section 24

Section 4(15)

Section 4

Section 4(16)

Section 4

Section 4(17)

Section 4

Section 5. Chief controlling Revenue-authority

Section 5

Section 6. Revenue-officers

Section 6

Section 7. Appointment, suspension and removal of Commissioners, Deputy and Assistant Commissioners

Section 7

Section 8. Appointment, suspension and removal of Tahsildars and Naib Tahsildars

Section 8

Section 9. Persons holding office when Act comes into force

Section 9

Section 10. Power to appoint additional Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners and Tahsildars

Section 10

Section 11. Chief Commissioner may invest Assistant Commissioner with powers of Deputy Commissioner

Section 11

Section 12. Officers transferred to retain powers with which they were invested

Section 12

Section 13. Provision for discharge of duties of Deputy Commissioner dying or being disabled

Section 13

Section 14. Chief commissioner may alter limits of district or tahsil

Section 14

Section 15. Power to invest Revenue-officers

Section 15

Section 16. Power of Deputy Commissioner to distribute work

Section 16

Section 17. Power of superior Revenue-authorities to withdraw and transfer cases

Section 17

Section 18. Power of Revenue-officers to enter on land, &c

Section 18

Section 19. Power to make rules to regulate procedure

Section 19

Section 20. Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before and to Revenue-officers

Section 20

Section 20. Obligation of parties to attend in person

Section 20

Section 21. Legal practitioner's or agent's fees not allowed unless for special reasons

Section 21

Section 22. Appeals

Section 22

Section 23. Limitation of appeals

Section 23

Section 24. Powers of revision of Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner

Section 24

Section 25. Powers of revision or Chief Commissioner

Section 25

Section 26. Review of orders

Section 26

Section 27. Notification of revenue-survey. Effect thereof

Section 27

Section 28. Notification of settlement

Section 28

Section 28. Power to amend notification

Section 28

Section 29. Power to appoint Settlement-officers

Section 29

Section 29. and to suspend and remove them

Section 29

Section 30. Settlement-officer may be invested with powers of Deputy Commissioner

Section 30
Chapter II

Section 31. Certain provisions of Chapter II applied to Settlement-officers

Section 31

Section 32. Appointment of Settlement-commissioner

Section 32

Section 32. delegation to him of Chief Commissioner's powers

Section 32

Section 33. Power to invest Settlement-officers with Civil Court powers

Section 33

Section 34. Chief Settlement-officer to have powers of Deputy Commissioner

Section 34

Section 35. Appeals in suits specified in section 33 when to lie to Chief Settlement-officer

Section 35

Section 36. Division of civil work between Settlement-officers and ordinary Courts

Section 36

Section 37. Provisions of section 31 not to apply to certain suits

Section 37

Section 38. Appeal, reference and revision

Section 38

Section 39. Duration of settlement-operations

Section 39

Section 39. Cases pending at close of settlement-operations

Section 39

Section 40. Settlement-officer to invite claims to lands appearing to have no owner

Section 40

Section 41. Application of Act XXIII of 1863

Section 41

Section 42. Procedure when limited right over land established

Section 42

Section 43. Power to form mahals

Section 43

Section 44. Settlement-officer may exclude any town or land from settlement-operations

Section 44

Section 45. Erection of new, and repair of existing, boundary-marks

Section 45

Section 46. Separate sum to be assessed on every mahal. Progressive assessments

Section 46

Section 47. Matters as to which Chief Commissioner is to instruct Settlement-officer

Section 47

Section 48. What land taken into account in assessing mahal

Section 48

Section 49. Assessment to whom to be offered

Section 49

Section 50. Sub-settlement to be made with inferior proprietors when settlement is made with superior

Section 50

Section 51. Power to give directions as to payment of certain profits of superior proprietors

Section 51

Section 52. Power to make rules for reporting assessment for sanction

Section 52

Section 53. Offers of assessment to be made subject to revision and confirmation

Section 53

Section 54. Option to accept or refuse assessment

Section 54

Section 54. Mode of acceptance

Section 54

Section 55. Proprietor not accepting in manner prescribed may be deemed to have accepted

Section 55

Section 56. Effect of acceptance of assessment

Section 56

Section 56. Assessment may be rescinded by Chief Commissioner; or by Governor General in Council

Section 56

Section 56. Malguzars may object to continuance of assessment beyond term of settlement

Section 56

Section 57. Procedure when assessment is refused

Section 57

Section 58. Procedure when only some proprietors accept assessment

Section 58

Section 59. Procedure on refusal of assessment in village in which superior and inferior rights co-exist

Section 59

Section 60. Procedure on refusal of assessment by inferior proprietors

Section 60

Section 61. Allowance to excluded proprietors

Section 61

Section 62. Excluded proprietors to have occupancy-rights in their sir-land

Section 62

Section 63. Aggregate amount of allowance granted to, and deduction from rent allowed to, excluded proprietor

Section 63

Section 64. Sub-settlement with malik-makbuzas and other like holders of land

Section 64

Section 65. Revenue payable under sub-settlement to be first charge on land

Section 65

Section 66. Settlement-officer to apportion assessment over lands held in severalty

Section 66

Section 67. to redistribute land according to custom

Section 67

Section 68. Settlement-officer to ascertain proprietors

Section 68

Section 69. to determine extent of sir-land

Section 69

Section 70. to decide disputes among shareholders regarding management of mahal

Section 70

Section 71. to determine through what lambardars revenue shall be paid

Section 71

Section 72. to ascertain status and rents of tenants

Section 72

Section 73. Enquiry into claims to hold free from revenue as against Government

Section 73

Section 73. Power of Chief Commissioner to make rules

Section 73

Section 74. Enquiry as to claims to hold free from revenue as against malguzars

Section 74

Section 74. Chief Commissioner may make rules for disposal of such cases

Section 74

Section 75. Time from which orders under sections 73 and 74 take effect

Section 75

Section 76. Settlement-officer to decide what village-cesses are leviable

Section 76

Section 77. to determine certain disputes

Section 77

Section 78. Procedure in cases under sections 68, 69, 70, 72 and 77, clauses (b), (c) and (d)

Section 78

Section 79. Record-of-rights

Section 79

Section 80. Chief Commissioner may make rules regarding record-of-rights

Section 80

Section 81. Record-of-rights to be made over to Deputy Commissioner

Section 81

Section 82. Effect of entries in record-of-rights

Section 82

Section 83. Suits to contest certain settlement decisions or entries

Section 83

Section 84. Revision of record-of-rights by Chief Commissioner

Section 84

Section 85. Proceedings regarding lands the property of Government

Section 85

Section 86. Former settlements deemed to have been made under this Act

Section 86

Section 87. Effect of awards of proprietary rights at such settlements

Section 87

Section 88. When suits for proprietary rights will lie in Civil Courts

Section 88

Section 89. Chief Commissioner may allot waste-land to malik-makbuzas entitled thereto

Section 89

Section 90. Power of Chief Commissioner to regulate payment of land-revenue

Section 90

Section 91. "Arrear." "Defaulters."

Section 91

Section 92. Tahsildar's statement of account to be conclusive evidence of arrear

Section 92

Section 93. Notice of demand

Section 93

Section 94. Processes for recovery of arrears

Section 94

Section 95. Arrest and imprisonment for recovery of arrear

Section 95

Section 96. Imprisonment of defaulter in civil jail

Section 96

Section 97. Procedure in sales of moveable property

Section 97

Section 98. Management of mahal, share or land attached under section 94 (c)

Section 98

Section 99. Effect of attachment

Section 99

Section 100. Profits of land how applied

Section 100

Section 101. Attachment when to cease

Section 101

Section 102. Transfer under section 94 (d)

Section 102

Section 102. Joint and several liability not affected by transfer

Section 102

Section 103. Procedure after receipt of sanction to annulment of settlement

Section 103

Section 104. Case of a portion of a mahal being managed or farmed

Section 104

Section 105. Settlement on expiry of management or farm

Section 105

Section 106. Effect of Annulment of settlement

Section 106

Section 107. Saving of rights in sir-land

Section 107

Section 108. Nature of estate taken by purchaser of land sold for arrears due thereon

Section 108

Section 109. Rules for sale of immoveable property

Section 109

Section 110. Pre-emption at sales

Section 110

Section 111. Application of proceeds of sale of immoveable property

Section 111

Section 112. Costs recoverable as part of arrear

Section 112

Section 113. Matters as to which Chief Commissioner may make rules

Section 113

Section 114. Remedies open to person denying that sum demanded as an arrear is due

Section 114

Section 115. Limitation of right to set-off, &c., in suit for arrears

Section 115

Section 116. Recovery of arrear through Deputy Commissioner instead of by suit

Section 116

Section 117. Saving of right of magluzar to demand revenue of land assessed to revenue and held free

Section 117

Section 118. Limitation in suits for revenue

Section 118

Section 119. Interest on arrears

Section 119

Section 120. Correction of record-of-rights

Section 120

Section 121. Revision of record in accordance with provision therein contained

Section 121

Section 122. Powers of Deputy Commissioner as to correction of entry or revision of record

Section 122

Section 123. Power to direct that rule or custom entered in record-of-rights shall be enforced by Government

Section 123

Section 123. Punishment of violation of such rule or custom

Section 123

Section 124. Suit to set aside proceedings under section 123

Section 124

Section 125. Powers of Chief Commissioner as to registration of changes after preparation of record-of-rights

Section 125

Section 126. Possession of proprietary rights to be notified

Section 126

Section 126. Notice to be given by guardian in case of minority or idiotcy

Section 126

Section 127. Fine for neglect to give notice of possession

Section 127

Section 128. Obligation to aid in preparation of village-papers

Section 128

Section 129. Fees for recording changes

Section 129

Section 129. from whom leviable

Section 129

Section 130. Annual enquiry regarding land held free from revenue

Section 130

Section 130. Procedure on breach of conditions of grant

Section 130

Section 130. Procedure on expiry of term of grant

Section 130

Section 131. Inspection of revenue-records

Section 131

Section 132. Purposes for which, when settlement is not in progress, Deputy Commissioner shall exercise Settlement-officers' powers

Section 132

Section 133. Purposes for which officers may be invested with Settlement-officers' powers

Section 133

Section 134. Cognizance of, and penalty for, offence of injuring boundary-marks

Section 134

Section 135. Procedure when person injuring cannot be found

Section 135

Section 136. Partition of mahal into two mahals

Section 136

Section 137. Power to make rules as to officers

Section 137

Section 138. Duties of lambardars

Section 138

Section 139. Lambardars may recover free and other charges from proprietors

Section 139

Section 140. Deputy Commissioner may alter channel through which malik-makbuza pays revenue

Section 140

Section 140. Effect of order for payment of revenue direct to Government

Section 140

Section 141. Duties of mukaddams

Section 141

Section 142. Liabilities imposed by law on land-holders to attach to mukaddams

Section 142

Section 143. Power of mukaddams to recover certain expenses incurred

Section 143

Section 144. Chief Commissioner may make rules as to patwaris

Section 144

Section 145. Chief Commissioner may make rules for guidance of Deputy Commissioners in certain matters

Section 145

Section 146. Chief Commissioner may define duties of patwaris

Section 146

Section 146. Patwaris' papers to be public documents

Section 146

Section 147. Patwaris to produce papers for inspection, and to allow copies to be made

Section 147

Section 148. Existing officers confirmed

Section 148

Section 149. Lambardars' and other officers' dues recoverable as arrears

Section 149

Section 150. Holders of sir-land in Sambalpur to provide for remuneration of mukaddams

Section 150

Section 151. Right to mines and quarries

Section 151

Section 152. Exclusive jurisdiction of Revenue-authorities. Matters excepted from jurisdiction of Civil Courts

Section 152

Section 153. For what village-cesses suit lies

Section 153

Section 154. Limitation of claims for compensation in case of waste-land demarcated as property of Government

Section 154

Section 155. Restriction on Revenue and Settlement-officers trading and holding land

Section 155

Section 156. When mahal managed or farmed, or upon proclamation under section 98 or 103, rent payable to Deputy Commissioner

Section 156

Section 156. Payment to proprietor in anticipation of due date

Section 156

Section 157. Recovery of balances due by farmers

Section 157

Section 158. Recovery of revenue due when Act comes into force; and of money payable under Act

Section 158

Section 159. Past proceedings for collection of revenue legalized

Section 159

Section 160. Chief Commissioner may empower persons by name, or confer powers on classes

Section 160

Section 161. Chief Commissioner may vary or cancel orders

Section 161

Section 162. Chief Commissioner may make rules and attach penalty to breach thereof

Section 162