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 31: Record-of-rights and documents included therein.
    (1) Save as otherwise provided by this Chapter, there shall be record-of-rights for each estate.
    (2) The record-of-rights for an estate shall include the following documents, namely:—
        (a) statements showing, so far as may be practicable:—
            (i) the persons who are landowners, tenants or assignees of land-revenue in the estate, or who are entitled to receive any of the rents, profits or produce of the estate or to occupy land therein;
            (ii) the nature and extent of the interests of those persons, and the conditions and liabilities attaching thereto; and
            (iii) the rent, land-revenue, rates, cesses or other payments due from and to each of those persons and to the Government ;
        (b) a statement of customs respecting rights and liabilities in the estate;
        (c) a map of the estate; and
        (d) such other documents as the Financial Commissioner may, with the pervious sanction of the Local Government, prescribe.
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