Act 17 of 1887

The Punjab Land-Revenue Act, 1887

An Act to amend and declare the Land-revenue Law of the Punjab.

  • Ministry of Rural Development
  • Department of Land Resources
  • Enacted 1887-09-23
  • 158 sections
SectionTitle
1 Title, extent and commencement.Read
2 Repeal.Read
3 Definitions.Read
4 Exclusion of certain land from operation of Act.Read
5 Power to vary limits and alter number of tahsils, districts and divisions.Read
6 Classes of Revenue-officers.Read
7 Financial Commissioner.Read
8 Appointment of Commissioners, and Deputy, Assistant and Extra Assistant Commissioners.Read
9 Appointment of Tahsildars and Naib-tahsildars.Read
10 Powers of Revenue-officers.Read
11 Superintendence and control of Revenue-officers.Read
12 Power to distribute business and withdraw and transfer cases.Read
13 Appeals.Read
14 Limitation for appeals.Read
15 Review by Revenue-officers.Read
16 Power to call for, examine and revise proceedings of Revenue-officers.Read
17 Power to make rules as to procedure.Read
18 Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before and to Revenue-officers.Read
19 Power of Revenue-officer to summon persons.Read
20 Mode of service of summons.Read
21 Mode of service of notice, order or proclamation or copy thereof.Read
22 Mode of making proclamation.Read
23 Place of sitting.Read
24 Holidays.Read
25 Discharge of duties of Collector dying or being disabled.Read
26 Retention of powers by Revenue-officers on transfer.Read
27 Conferment of powers of Revenue-officers .Read
28 Rules respecting kanungos, zaildars, inamdars and village-officers.Read
29 Village-officers’ cess.Read
30 Restriction on attachment or assignment of remuneration of kanungos, Zaildars, Inamdars and village-officers.Read
31 Record-of-rights and documents included therein.Read
32 Making or special revision of record-of-rights.Read
33 Annual record.Read
34 Making of that part of the annual record which relates to land-owners, assignees of revenue and occupancy, tenants.Read
35 Making of that part of the annual record which relates to other persons.Read
36 Determination of disputes.Read
37 Restrictions on variation of entries in records.Read
38 Mutation-fees.Read
39 Penalty for neglect to report acquisition of any right referred to in section 34.Read
40 Obligation to furnish information necessary for the preparation of records.Read
41 Rights of the Government in mines and minerals.Read
42 Presumption as to ownership of forests, quarries and waste-lands.Read
43 Compensation for infringement of rights of third parties in exercise of a right of the Government.Read
44 Presumption in favour of entries in records-of-rights and annual records.Read
45 Suit for declaratory decree by person aggrieved by an entry in a record.Read
46 Power to make rules respecting records and other matters connected therewith.Read
47 Record-of-rights and annual records for groups of estates.Read
48 Assessment of land-revenue.Read
49 Notification of intended re-assessment and instructions, as to principles of assessment.Read
50 Mode of determining assessment.Read
51 Announcement of assessment.Read
52 Application for re-consideration of assessment.Read
53 Confirmation and duration of assessment.Read
54 Assessment to remain in force till new assessment takes effect.Read
55 Refusal to be liable for assessment and consequence thereof.Read
56 Distribution of the assessment of an estate over the holdings comprised therein.Read
57 Application for amendment of the distribution of an assessment.Read
58 Appeals from orders under sections 52 and 57.Read
59 Special assessment.Read
60 Formation of waste-land into separate estates.Read
61 Security for payment of land-revenue.Read
62 Further security for payment of land-revenue.Read
63 Orders to regulate payment of land-revenue.Read
64 Rules to regulate collection, remission and suspension of land-revenue.Read
65 Costs recoverable as part of arrear.Read
66 Certified account to be evidence as to arrear.Read
67 Processes for recovery of arrears.Read
68 Writ of demand.Read
69 Arrest and detention of defaulter.Read
70 Distress and sale of moveable property and crops.Read
71 Transfer of holding.Read
72 Attachment of estate or holding.Read
73 Annulment of assessment of estate or holding.Read
74 Proclamation of attachment or annulment of assessment, and consequences of the proclamation.Read
75 Sale of estate or holding.Read
76 Effect of sale on encumbrances.Read
77 Proceedings against other immoveable property of defaulter.Read
78 Remedies open to person denying his liability for an arrear.Read
79 Proclamation of sale.Read
80 Indemnity to Revenue-officer with respect to contents of proclamation.Read
81 Publication of proclamation.Read
82 Time and conduct of sale.Read
83 Power to postpone sale.Read
84 Stay of sale.Read
85 Payment of deposit by highest bidder.Read
86 Consequences of failure to pay deposit.Read
87 Exercise of right of pre-emption.Read
88 Time for payment in full.Read
89 Procedure in default of payment.Read
90 Report of sale to Commissioner.Read
91 Application to set aside sale.Read
92 Order confirming or setting aside sale.Read
93 Refund of purchase-money on setting aside of sale.Read
94 Proclamation after postponement or on re-sale.Read
95 On confirmation of sale, possession and certificate to be granted to purchaser.Read
96 Proceeds of sale.Read
97 Recovery of certain arrears through Revenue-officer instead of by suit.Read
98 Other sums recoverable as arrears of land-revenue.Read
99 Application of Chapter VI to sums recoverable under this Chapter.Read
100 Power of Financial Commissioner to make rules for demarcation of boundaries and erection of survey-marks.Read
101 Power of Revenue-officers to define boundaries.Read
102 Cost of erection and repair of survey-marks.Read
103 Recovery of cost incurred by the Government.Read
104 Power of Revenue-offices to enter on land for purposes of survey and demarcation.Read
105 Surveys for purpose of preparation of records.Read
106 Provision of flag holders and chainmen for those surveys.Read
107 Professional surveys.Read
108 Penalty for destruction, injury or removal of survey-marks.Read
109 Report of destruction or removal of or injury to survey-marks.Read
110 Effect of partitions of estates and tenancies on joint liability for revenue and rent.Read
111 Application for partition.Read
112 Restrictions and limitations on partition.Read
113 Notice of application for partition.Read
114 Addition of parties to application.Read
115 Absolute disallowance of partition.Read
116 Procedure on admission of application.Read
117 Disposal of questions as to title in property to be divided.Read
118 Disposal of other questions.Read
119 Administration of property excluded from partition.Read
120 Distribution of revenue and rent after partition.Read
121 Instrument of partition.Read
122 Delivery of possessions of property allotted on partition.Read
123 Affirmation of partition s privately effected.Read
124 Power to make rules as to costs of partition.Read
125 Re-distribution of land according to custom.Read
126 Officer who may be empowered to act under this Chapter.Read
127 Power to refer to arbitration.Read
128 Order of reference and contents thereof.Read
129 Nomination of arbitrators.Read
130 Substitution of arbitrators by parties.Read
131 Nomination and substitution of arbitrators by Revenue-officers.Read
132 Process for appearance before arbitrators.Read
133 Award of arbitrators and presentation thereof.Read
134 Procedure on presentation of award.Read
135 Effect of award.Read
136 Power to invest officers making records-of-rights or general re-assessments with powers of Civil Courts.Read
137 Control over such officers and appeals from and revision of their decrees and orders.Read
138 Power to deposit certain sums other than rent.Read
139 Procedure in case of deposit on account of a payment due to Government.Read
140 Procedure in case of other deposits.Read
141 Orders of Civil and Criminal Courts for execution of processes against land or the produce thereof to be addressed to a Revenue-officer.Read
142 Attachment of assigned land-revenue.Read
143 Preservation of attached produce.Read
144 Division of produce.Read
145 Village cesses.Read
146 Superior land-owners’ dues.Read
147 Substitution of service for payment of land-revenue.Read
148 Recovery of cost of assessing assigned land-revenue.Read
149 Penalty for failure to attend within limits of estate in obedience to order of Revenue-officers.Read
150 Prevention of encroachment on common lands.Read
151 Papers kept by village-officers to be deemed public documents.Read
152 Costs.Read
153 Computation of periods limited for appeals and applications for review.Read
154 Restriction on Revenue-officers bidding at auctions or trading.Read
155 Power to make rules.Read
156 Rules to be made after previous publication.Read
157 Powers exerciseable by the Financial Commissioner from time to time.Read
158 Exclusion of jurisdiction of Civil Courts, in matters within the jurisdiction of Revenue-officers.Read
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