Section 98:
Power to make rules.
(1) The Administrator may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make
rules for carrying out the purposes of this Part.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may
provide for--
(a) the manner of appointment of revenue officers, survey officers and settlement officers, and
other village officers and servants, their powers and duties, the official seals, if any, to be used by
them and the size and description of the seals;
(b) the Collector's powers of superintendence and control over other officers;
(c) the officers who should hear and decide disputes regarding rights in or over any property
claimed by or against the Government and the procedure to be followed by them;
(d) the disposal of Government lands by assignment or grant to individuals or to public purposes
and the terms and conditions subject to which such assignments or grants may be made;
(e) the preservation and disposal of trees, brush, wood, jungle and other natural products on
Government land and the recovery of the value of trees or other natural product unauthorisedly
appropriated by persons;
(f) the procedure for summary eviction of trespassers on Government land;
(g) the alteration and revision of the land revenue in cases of alluvion or diluvion or of diversion
of land for purposes other than agriculture;
(h) the grant of permission to use agricultural land for non- agricultural purposes;
(i) the determination of additional rates for use of water;
(j) the circumstances in which remission or suspension of revenue may be made and the rate of
such remission or suspension;
(k) the form of receipt for payment of land revenue;
(l) the conduct of surveys and settlements of land revenue;
(m) the manner of estimating the cost of cultivation and other expenses in relation to the inquiry
into profits of agriculture;
(n) the division of survey numbers into sub-divisions and the assessment of sub-divisions;
(o) the statistical, fiscal and other records and registers to be prepared and maintained under this
Part;
(p) the manner in which the costs and expenses incidental to revenue survey or the construction,
repair and maintenance of boundary marks shall be determined and apportioned between persons who
are liable to bear the same;
(q) the fixing, construction, laying out, maintenance and repair of boundary marks, and the
settlement of disputes relating thereto;
(r) the division of areas into units for determining the revenue-rates and the preparation of the
table of revenue-rates;
(s) the preparation and the preliminary and final publication of the record of rights and the table
of revenue-rates;
(t) the hearing and disposal of objections to any entry or omission in the table of revenue-rates,
the record of rights, and the register of mutations;
(u) the manner and extent of alteration or revision of revenue-rates during the term of settlement;
(v) the correction of
bona fide errors and mistakes in the revenue records, registers and maps
prepared under this Part;
(w) the manner in which the average yield of crops of land shall be ascertained;
(x) the manner of holding inquiries by revenue officers under this Part;
(y) the application of the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), to cases
and proceedings before a revenue court;
(z) the form of summons and other processes, notices, orders and proclamations to be issued or
made by revenue officers and the manner of their service;
(aa) the procedure for the attachment and sale of property and the confirmation and the setting
aside of sales of immovable property under Chapter VII;
(bb) the manner of publication of notices and proclamations of attachment and sale of property;
(cc) the manner in which the cost and expenses incidental to the attachment and sale of property
shall be determined;
(dd) the manner of payment of deposit and of the purchase money of property sold for arrears of
land revenue;
(ee) the circumstances in which precautionary measures for securing the land revenue under
section 79 may be taken;
(ff) the procedure for the transfer of cases from one revenue officer to another;
(gg) the manner of preferring appeals or applications for revision or review, the documents to
accompany the memorandum of appeal or such application and the fee, if any, leviable therefor;
(hh) the grant of certified copies and the payment of fees for inspection and grant of certified
copies of revenue records and registers;
(ii) the mode of execution of any orders directing any person to deliver possession of land or to
be evicted from land, including the use of force for securing compliance with such order;
(jj) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed.