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- Jurisdiction
- Central
- Enactment date
- 1881-06-08
- Sections available
- 162
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08-06-1881
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1Short title.→2Enactments repealed.→3Pending proceedings.→4Interpretation-clause.→5Chief Controlling Revenue-authority.→6Revenue-officers.→7Appointment, suspension and removal of Commissioners, Deputy and Assistant Commissioners.→8Appointment, suspension and removal of Tahsildars and Naib Tahsildars.→9Persons holding office when Act comes into force.→10Power to appoint additional Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners and Tahsildars.→11Chief Commissioner may invest Assistant Commissioner with powers of Deputy Commissioner.→12Officers transferred to retain powers with which they were invested.→13Provision for discharge of duties of Deputy Commissioner dying or being disabled.→14Chief Commissioner may alter limits of district or tahsil.→15Power to invest Revenue-officers, — with power conferred by Code of Civil Procedure; with power to delegate powers.→16Power of Deputy Commissioners to distribute work.→17Power of superior Revenue-authorities to withdraw and transfer cases.→18Power of Revenue-officers to enter on land, &c.→19Power to make rules to regulate procedure.→20Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before and to Revenue-officers.→21Legal practitioner's or agent's fees not allowed unless for special reasons.→22Appeals.→23Limitation of appeals.→24Powers of revision of Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner.→25Powers of revision or Chief Commissioner.→26Review of orders.→27Notification of revenue-survey.→28Notification of settlement.→29Power to appoint Settlement-officers; and to suspend and remove them→30Settlement-officer may be invested with powers of Deputy Commissioner.→31Certain provisions of Chapter II applied to Settlement-officers.→32Appointment of Settlement-commissioner; delegation to him of Chief Commissioner’s powers.→33Power to invest Settlement-officers with Civil Court powers.→34Chief Settlement-officer to have powers of Deputy Commissioner.→35Appeals in suits specified in section 33 when to lie to Chief Settlement-officer.→36Division of civil work between Settlement-officers and ordinary Courts.→37Provisions of section 31 not to apply to certain suits.→38Appeal, reference and revision.→39Duration of settlement-operations.→40Settlement-officer to invite claims to lands appearing to have no owner.→41Application of Act XXIII of 1863.→42Procedure when limited right over land established.→43Power to form mahals.→44Settlement-officer may exclude any town or land from settlement-operations.→45Erection of new, and repair of existing, boundary-marks.→46Separate sum to be assessed on every mahal.→47Matters as to which Chief Commissioner is to instruct Settlement-officer→48What land taken into account in assessing mahal.→49Assessment to whom to be offered.→50Sub-settlement to be made with inferior proprietors when settlement is made with superior.→51Power to give directions as to payment of certain profits of superior proprietors.→52Power to make rules for reporting assessment for sanction.→53Offers of assessment to be made subject to revision and confirmation.→54Option to accept or refuse assessment.→55Proprietor not accepting in manner prescribed may be deemed to have accepted.→56Effect of acceptance of assessment.→57Procedure when assessment is refused.→58Procedure when only some proprietors accept assessment.→59Procedure on refusal of assessment in village in which superior and inferior rights co-exist.→60Procedure on refusal of assessment by inferior proprietors.→61Allowance to excluded proprietors.→62Excluded proprietors to have occupancy-rights in their sir-land.→63Aggregate amount of allowance granted to, and deduction from rent allowed to, excluded proprietor→64Sub-settlement with malik-makbuzas and other like holders of land.→65Revenue payable under sub-settlement to be first charge on land.→66Settlement-officer to apportion assessment over lands held in severalty.→67to redistribute land according to custom.→68Settlement-officer to ascertain proprietors.→69to determine extent of sir-land.→70to decide disputes among shareholders regarding management of mahal.→71to determine through what lambardars revenue shall be paid.→72to ascertain status and rents of tenants.→73Enquiry into claims to hold free from revenue as against Government.→74Enquiry as to claims to hold free from revenue as against malguzars.→75Time from which orders under sections 73 and 74 take effect.→76Settlement-officer to decide what village-cesses are leviable.→77to determine certain disputes.→78Procedure in cases under sections 68,69,70,72 and 77, clauses (b), (c) and (d).→79Record-of-rights.→80Chief Commissioner may make rules regarding record-of-rights.→81Record-of-rights to be made over to Deputy Commissioner.→82Effect of entries in record-of-rights.→83Suits to contest certain settlement decisions or entries.→84Revision of record-of-rights by Chief Commissioner.→85Proceedings regarding lands the property of Government.→86Former settlements deemed to have been made under this Act.→87Effect of awards of proprietary rights at such settlements.→88When suits for proprietary rights will lie in Civil Courts.→89Chief Commissioner may allot waste-land to malik-mak-buzas entitled thereto.→90Power of Chief Commissioner to regulate payment of land-revenue.→91Arrear.Defaulters.→92Tahasildar's statement of account to be conclusive evidence of arrear.→93Notice of demand.→94Processes for recovery of arrears.→95Arrest and imprisonment for recovery of arrear.→96Imprisonment of defaulter in civil jail.→97Procedure in sales of moveable property.→98Management of mahal, share of land attached under section 94(c).→99Effect of attachment.→100Profits of land how applied.→101Attachment when to cease.→102Transfer under section 94(d).→103Procedure after receipt of sanction to annulment of settlement.→104Case of a portion of a mahal being managed or farmed.→105Settlement on expiry of management or farm.→106Effect of annulment of settlement.→107Saving of rights in sir-land.→108Nature of estate taken by purchaser of land sold for arrears due thereon.→109Rules for sale of immoveable property.→110Pre-emption at sales.→111Application of proceeds of sale of immoveable property.→112Costs recoverable as part of arrear.→113Matters as to which Chief Commissioner may make rules.→114Remedies open to person denying that sum demanded as an arrear is due.→115Limitation of right to set-off, &c., in suit for arrears.→116Recovery of arrear through Deputy Commissioner instead of by suit.→117Saving of right of malguzar to demand revenue of land assessed to revenue and held free.→118Limitation in suits for revenue.→119Interest on arrears.→120Correction of record-of-rights.→121Revision of record in accordance with provision therein contained.→122Powers of Deputy Commissioner as to correction of entry or revision of record.→123Power to direct that rule or custom entered in record-of-rights shall be enforced by Government.→124Suit to set aside proceedings under section 123.→125Powers of Chief Commissioner as to registration of changes after preparation of record-of-rights.→126Possession of proprietary rights to be notified.→127Fine for neglect to give notice of possession.→128Obligation to aid in preparation of village-papers.→129Fees for recording changes; from whom leviable.→130Annual enquiry regarding land held free from revenue.→131Inspection of revenue-records.→132Purposes for which, when settlement is not in progress, Deputy Commissioner shall exercise Settlement-officers’ powers.→133Purposes for which officers may be invested with Settlement-officers’ powers.→134Cognizance of, and penalty for, offence of injuring boundary-marks.→135Procedure when person injuring cannot be found.→136Partition of a mahal into two mahals.→137Power to make rules as to officers.→138Duties of lambardars.→139Lambardars may recover fees and other charges from proprietors.→140Deputy Commissioner may alter channel through which malik-makbuza pays revenue.→141Duties of mukaddams.→142Liabilities imposed by law on landholders to attach to mukaddams.→143Power of mukaddams to recover certain expenses incurred.→144Chief Commissioner may make rules as to patwaris.→145Chief Commissioner may make rules for guidance of Deputy Commissioner in certain matters.→146Chief Commissioner may define duties of patwaris.→147Patwaris to produce papers for inspection, and to allow copies to be made.→148Existing officers confirmed.→149Lambardars’ and other officers’ dues recoverable as arrears.→150Holders of sir-land in Sambalpur to provide for remuneration of mukaddams.→151Right to mines and quarries.→152Exclusive jurisdiction of Revenue-authorities.→153For what village-cesses suit lies.→154Limitation of claims for composition in case of waste-land demarcated as property of Government.→155Restriction on Revenue and Settlement-officers trading and holding land.→156When mahal managed or farmed, or upon proclamation under section 98 or 103, rent payable to Deputy Commissioner.→157Recovery of balances due by farmers.→158Recovery of revenue due when Act comes into force; and of money payable under Act.→159Past proceedings for collection of revenue legalized.→160Chief Commissioner may empower persons by name, or confer powers on classes.→161Chief Commissioner may vary or cancel orders.→162Chief Commissioner may make rules and attach penalty to breach thereof.→
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