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The Central Provinces Land-Revenue Act, 1881

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An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Land-revenue and the powers of Revenue-officers in the Central Provinces.

Act number
18 of 1881
Ministry
Ministry of Home Affairs
Department
Department of States
Enacted
8 Jun 1881

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162 sections

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 Section 2Enactments repealed.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