Section 24. Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before a Revenue Officer.

(1) Appearances and applications may be made and acts done before a Revenue Officer by a person either personally or through an authorised agent : Provided that no legal practitioner shall appear as such as an authorised agent in any proceedings under this Act, or rules made thereunder, except before a Collector or an appellate or a revisional authority. (2) Appearances may be put, applications made and acts done before a Revenue Officer, or any authority, acting under this Act, on behalf of a family by the head of such family. 1[(3) When the appellate or the revisional authority, as the case may be, is holding office in a province other than the one to which the appeal or revision pertains, the appeal may be preferred or the application for revision may be presented, before a local Revenue Officer not below the rank of a Tehsildar for transmission to such appellate or revisional authority : Provided that an appeal or application relating to the district of Ladakh may always be presented before a local Revenue Officer not below the rank of a Tehsildar for transmission to the appellate or revisional authority, as the case may be].