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 106: Provision of flag holders and chainmen for those surveys.
    (1) For the purposes of the survey of any land in pursuance of rules under section 46, clause (c), the land-owners shall be bound to provide fit persons to act as flag holders and chainmen.
    (2) If the land-owners fail to provide such persons or to provide them in sufficient number, such other persons as a Revenue-officer considers necessary may be employed and the cost of employing them recovered from the land-owners as if it were an arrear of land-revenue.
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