Act Number: 13

Act Name: The Central Provinces Financial Commissioner's Act, 1908

Year: 1908

Enactment Date: 1908-10-30

Long Title: An Act to provide for the appointment of a Financial Commissioner for the Central Provinces and further to amend the Central Provinces Land-revenue Act, 1881.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 4: Substitution of new sections for sections 5 and 6, Act XVIII, 1881.
    For section 5 and 6 of the Central Provinces Land-revenue Act, 1881 the following shall be substituted, namely:
    “5. Revenue-officers.—There shall be the following classes of Revenue-officers, namely:—
    the Chief Commissioner,
    the Financial Commissioner,
    Commissioners,
    Deputy Commissioners,
    Assistant Commissioners,
    Tahsildars,
    Naib-tahsildars.”
    “6. Subordination of officers.—(1) The Chief Commissioner shall, in all revenue matters, be subject to the control of the Governor General in Council.
    (2) The Financial Commissioner shall be subject to the control of the Chief Commissioner.
    (3) All other Revenue-officers shall be subordinate to the Chief Commissioner and the Financial Commissioner; all Revenue-officers in a division shall be subordinate to the Commissioner of the division; and all Revenue-officers in a district shall be subordinate to the Deputy Commissioner of the district.
    (4) An officer in charge of a village-survey in a district which is not under settlement may be invested by the Chief Commissioner with the powers of a Revenue-officer of any class, and, when so invested, shall be subordinate to such officer or officers as the Chief Commissioner may direct.”
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