Act Number: 20

Act Name: The North-western Provinces and Oudh Act, 1890

Year: 1890

Enactment Date: 1890-10-16

Long Title: An Act to provide for the better administration of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh and to amend certain enactments in force in those Provinces and in Oudh.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 11: Board of Revenue of the North-Western Provinces to be the Board of Revenue of, and Chief Revenue-authority in, Oudh.
    (1) On and from the day on which this Part comes into force the Board of Revenue constituted under the North-Western Provinces Land-revenue Act, 18731 (19 of 1873), shall be deemed to be also the Board of Revenue for the territories administered by the Chief Commissioner of Oudh, and shall be known and designated as the Board of Revenue of the NorthWestern Provinces and Oudh2.
    (2) All references made in any enactment as amended by this Part to the Board of Revenue shall be deemed, so far as they relate to Oudh, to refer to the said Board.
    (3) In any enactment for the time being in force in the territories administered by the Chief Commissioner of Oudh, in which the expression “Chief Revenue-authority” or “Chief Controlling Revenue-authority” is used, the expression shall, subject to the provisions of any enactment passed after the said day3 , be construed, so far as the said territories are concerned, as referring to the Board of Revenue of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh2 .
Notes:
    1. Since rep. by the U.P. Land-revenue Act,1901 (U.P. 3 of 1901), s. 2, but not so as to affect anything done under Act 19 of 1873, see s. 3.
    2. Now the Board of Revenue of the U.P.
    3. 1st January, 1891, see the North-Western Provinces and Oudh Gazette, 1890, Pt. I, p.661.
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