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Short title. | Read |
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Enactments repealed. | Read |
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Pending proceedings. | Read |
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Interpretation-clause. | Read |
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Chief Controlling Revenue-authority. | Read |
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Revenue-officers. | Read |
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Appointment, suspension and removal of Commissioners, Deputy and Assistant Commissioners. | Read |
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Appointment, suspension and removal of Tahsildars and Naib Tahsildars. | Read |
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Persons holding office when Act comes into force. | Read |
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Power to appoint additional Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners and Tahsildars. | Read |
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Chief Commissioner may invest Assistant Commissioner with powers of Deputy Commissioner. | Read |
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Officers transferred to retain powers with which they were invested. | Read |
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Provision for discharge of duties of Deputy Commissioner dying or being disabled. | Read |
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Chief Commissioner may alter limits of district or tahsil. | Read |
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Power to invest Revenue-officers, — with power conferred by Code of Civil Procedure; with power to delegate powers. | Read |
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Power of Deputy Commissioners to distribute work. | Read |
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Power of superior Revenue-authorities to withdraw and transfer cases. | Read |
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Power of Revenue-officers to enter on land, &c. | Read |
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Power to make rules to regulate procedure. | Read |
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Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before and to Revenue-officers. | Read |
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Legal practitioner's or agent's fees not allowed unless for special reasons. | Read |
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Appeals. | Read |
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Limitation of appeals. | Read |
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Powers of revision of Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner. | Read |
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Powers of revision or Chief Commissioner. | Read |
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Review of orders. | Read |
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Notification of revenue-survey. | Read |
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Notification of settlement. | Read |
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Power to appoint Settlement-officers; and to suspend and remove them | Read |
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Settlement-officer may be invested with powers of Deputy Commissioner. | Read |
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Certain provisions of Chapter II applied to Settlement-officers. | Read |
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Appointment of Settlement-commissioner; delegation to him of Chief Commissioner’s powers. | Read |
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Power to invest Settlement-officers with Civil Court powers. | Read |
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Chief Settlement-officer to have powers of Deputy Commissioner. | Read |
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Appeals in suits specified in section 33 when to lie to Chief Settlement-officer. | Read |
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Division of civil work between Settlement-officers and ordinary Courts. | Read |
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Provisions of section 31 not to apply to certain suits. | Read |
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Appeal, reference and revision. | Read |
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Duration of settlement-operations. | Read |
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Settlement-officer to invite claims to lands appearing to have no owner. | Read |
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Application of Act XXIII of 1863. | Read |
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Procedure when limited right over land established. | Read |
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Power to form mahals. | Read |
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Settlement-officer may exclude any town or land from settlement-operations. | Read |
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Erection of new, and repair of existing, boundary-marks. | Read |
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Separate sum to be assessed on every mahal. | Read |
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Matters as to which Chief Commissioner is to instruct Settlement-officer | Read |
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What land taken into account in assessing mahal. | Read |
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Assessment to whom to be offered. | Read |
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Sub-settlement to be made with inferior proprietors when settlement is made with superior. | Read |
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Power to give directions as to payment of certain profits of superior proprietors. | Read |
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Power to make rules for reporting assessment for sanction. | Read |
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Offers of assessment to be made subject to revision and confirmation. | Read |
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Option to accept or refuse assessment. | Read |
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Proprietor not accepting in manner prescribed may be deemed to have accepted. | Read |
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Effect of acceptance of assessment. | Read |
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Procedure when assessment is refused. | Read |
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Procedure when only some proprietors accept assessment. | Read |
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Procedure on refusal of assessment in village in which superior and inferior rights co-exist. | Read |
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Procedure on refusal of assessment by inferior proprietors. | Read |
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Allowance to excluded proprietors. | Read |
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Excluded proprietors to have occupancy-rights in their sir-land. | Read |
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Aggregate amount of allowance granted to, and deduction from rent allowed to, excluded proprietor | Read |
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Sub-settlement with malik-makbuzas and other like holders of land. | Read |
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Revenue payable under sub-settlement to be first charge on land. | Read |
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Settlement-officer to apportion assessment over lands held in severalty. | Read |
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to redistribute land according to custom. | Read |
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Settlement-officer to ascertain proprietors. | Read |
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to determine extent of sir-land. | Read |
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to decide disputes among shareholders regarding management of mahal. | Read |
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to determine through what lambardars revenue shall be paid. | Read |
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to ascertain status and rents of tenants. | Read |
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Enquiry into claims to hold free from revenue as against Government. | Read |
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Enquiry as to claims to hold free from revenue as against malguzars. | Read |
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Time from which orders under sections 73 and 74 take effect. | Read |
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Settlement-officer to decide what village-cesses are leviable. | Read |
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to determine certain disputes. | Read |
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Procedure in cases under sections 68,69,70,72 and 77, clauses (b), (c) and (d). | Read |
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Record-of-rights. | Read |
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Chief Commissioner may make rules regarding record-of-rights. | Read |
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Record-of-rights to be made over to Deputy Commissioner. | Read |
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Effect of entries in record-of-rights. | Read |
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Suits to contest certain settlement decisions or entries. | Read |
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Revision of record-of-rights by Chief Commissioner. | Read |
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Proceedings regarding lands the property of Government. | Read |
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Former settlements deemed to have been made under this Act. | Read |
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Effect of awards of proprietary rights at such settlements. | Read |
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When suits for proprietary rights will lie in Civil Courts. | Read |
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Chief Commissioner may allot waste-land to malik-mak-buzas entitled thereto. | Read |
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Power of Chief Commissioner to regulate payment of land-revenue. | Read |
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Arrear.Defaulters. | Read |
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Tahasildar's statement of account to be conclusive evidence of arrear. | Read |
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Notice of demand. | Read |
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Processes for recovery of arrears. | Read |
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Arrest and imprisonment for recovery of arrear. | Read |
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Imprisonment of defaulter in civil jail. | Read |
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Procedure in sales of moveable property. | Read |
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Management of mahal, share of land attached under section 94(c). | Read |
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Effect of attachment. | Read |
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Profits of land how applied. | Read |
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Attachment when to cease. | Read |
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Transfer under section 94(d). | Read |
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Procedure after receipt of sanction to annulment of settlement. | Read |
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Case of a portion of a mahal being managed or farmed. | Read |
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Settlement on expiry of management or farm. | Read |
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Effect of annulment of settlement. | Read |
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Saving of rights in sir-land. | Read |
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Nature of estate taken by purchaser of land sold for arrears due thereon. | Read |
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Rules for sale of immoveable property. | Read |
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Pre-emption at sales. | Read |
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Application of proceeds of sale of immoveable property. | Read |
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Costs recoverable as part of arrear. | Read |
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Matters as to which Chief Commissioner may make rules. | Read |
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Remedies open to person denying that sum demanded as an arrear is due. | Read |
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Limitation of right to set-off, &c., in suit for arrears. | Read |
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Recovery of arrear through Deputy Commissioner instead of by suit. | Read |
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Saving of right of malguzar to demand revenue of land assessed to revenue and held free. | Read |
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Limitation in suits for revenue. | Read |
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Interest on arrears. | Read |
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Correction of record-of-rights. | Read |
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Revision of record in accordance with provision therein contained. | Read |
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Powers of Deputy Commissioner as to correction of entry or revision of record. | Read |
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Power to direct that rule or custom entered in record-of-rights shall be enforced by Government. | Read |
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Suit to set aside proceedings under section 123. | Read |
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Powers of Chief Commissioner as to registration of changes after preparation of record-of-rights. | Read |
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Possession of proprietary rights to be notified. | Read |
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Fine for neglect to give notice of possession. | Read |
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Obligation to aid in preparation of village-papers. | Read |
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Fees for recording changes; from whom leviable. | Read |
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Annual enquiry regarding land held free from revenue. | Read |
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Inspection of revenue-records. | Read |
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Purposes for which, when settlement is not in progress, Deputy Commissioner shall exercise Settlement-officers’ powers. | Read |
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Purposes for which officers may be invested with Settlement-officers’ powers. | Read |
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Cognizance of, and penalty for, offence of injuring boundary-marks. | Read |
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Procedure when person injuring cannot be found. | Read |
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Partition of a mahal into two mahals. | Read |
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Power to make rules as to officers. | Read |
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Duties of lambardars. | Read |
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Lambardars may recover fees and other charges from proprietors. | Read |
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Deputy Commissioner may alter channel through which malik-makbuza pays revenue. | Read |
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Duties of mukaddams. | Read |
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Liabilities imposed by law on landholders to attach to mukaddams. | Read |
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Power of mukaddams to recover certain expenses incurred. | Read |
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Chief Commissioner may make rules as to patwaris. | Read |
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Chief Commissioner may make rules for guidance of Deputy Commissioner in certain matters. | Read |
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Chief Commissioner may define duties of patwaris. | Read |
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Patwaris to produce papers for inspection, and to allow copies to be made. | Read |
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Existing officers confirmed. | Read |
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Lambardars’ and other officers’ dues recoverable as arrears. | Read |
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Holders of sir-land in Sambalpur to provide for remuneration of mukaddams. | Read |
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Right to mines and quarries. | Read |
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Exclusive jurisdiction of Revenue-authorities. | Read |
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For what village-cesses suit lies. | Read |
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Limitation of claims for composition in case of waste-land demarcated as property of Government. | Read |
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Restriction on Revenue and Settlement-officers trading and holding land. | Read |
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When mahal managed or farmed, or upon proclamation under section 98 or 103, rent payable to Deputy Commissioner. | Read |
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Recovery of balances due by farmers. | Read |
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Recovery of revenue due when Act comes into force; and of money payable under Act. | Read |
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Past proceedings for collection of revenue legalized. | Read |
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Chief Commissioner may empower persons by name, or confer powers on classes. | Read |
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Chief Commissioner may vary or cancel orders. | Read |
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Chief Commissioner may make rules and attach penalty to breach thereof. | Read |
