Act Number: 17

Act Name: The Punjab Land-Revenue Act, 1887

Year: 1887

Enactment Date: 1887-09-23

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

Ministry: Ministry of Rural Development

Department: Department of Land Resources

Section 5: Power to vary limits and alter number of tahsils, districts and divisions.
    The local Government may by notification vary the limits of the tahsils, districts and divisions into which the territories administered by it are divided, and may by notification alter the number of those tahsils and, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, the number of those districts and divisions.
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