Section List

17/1887 - The Punjab Land-Revenue Act, 1887 ▶

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 Number	Title	Actions
1	Title, extent and commencement.
2	Repeal.
3	Definitions.
4	Exclusion of certain land from operation of Act.
5	Power to vary limits and alter number of tahsils, districts and divisions.
6	Classes of Revenue-officers.
7	Financial Commissioner.
8	Appointment of Commissioners, and Deputy, Assistant and Extra Assistant Commissioners.
9	Appointment of Tahsildars and Naib-tahsildars.
10	Powers of Revenue-officers.
11	Superintendence and control of Revenue-officers.
12	Power to distribute business and withdraw and transfer cases.
13	Appeals.
14	Limitation for appeals.
15	Review by Revenue-officers.
16	Power to call for, examine and revise proceedings of Revenue-officers.
17	Power to make rules as to procedure.
18	Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before and to Revenue-officers.
19	Power of Revenue-officer to summon persons.
20	Mode of service of summons.
21	Mode of service of notice, order or proclamation or copy thereof.
22	Mode of making proclamation.
23	Place of sitting.
24	Holidays.
25	Discharge of duties of Collector dying or being disabled.
26	Retention of powers by Revenue-officers on transfer.
27	Conferment of powers of Revenue-officers .
28	Rules respecting kanungos, zaildars, inamdars and village-officers.
29	Village-officers’ cess.
31	Record-of-rights and documents included therein.
32	Making or special revision of record-of-rights.
33	Annual record.
35	Making of that part of the annual record which relates to other persons.
36	Determination of disputes.
37	Restrictions on variation of entries in records.
38	Mutation-fees.
39	Penalty for neglect to report acquisition of any right referred to in section 34.
40	Obligation to furnish information necessary for the preparation of records.
41	Rights of the Government in mines and minerals.
42	Presumption as to ownership of forests, quarries and waste-lands.
43	Compensation for infringement of rights of third parties in exercise of a right of the Government.
44	Presumption in favour of entries in records-of-rights and annual records.
45	Suit for declaratory decree by person aggrieved by an entry in a record.
46	Power to make rules respecting records and other matters connected therewith.
47	Record-of-rights and annual records for groups of estates.
48	Assessment of land-revenue.
49	Notification of intended re-assessment and instructions, as to principles of assessment.
50	Mode of determining assessment.
51	Announcement of assessment.
52	Application for re-consideration of assessment.
53	Confirmation and duration of assessment.
54	Assessment to remain in force till new assessment takes effect.
55	Refusal to be liable for assessment and consequence thereof.
56	Distribution of the assessment of an estate over the holdings comprised therein.
57	Application for amendment of the distribution of an assessment.
58	Appeals from orders under sections 52 and 57.
59	Special assessment.
60	Formation of waste-land into separate estates.
61	Security for payment of land-revenue.
62	Further security for payment of land-revenue.
63	Orders to regulate payment of land-revenue.
64	Rules to regulate collection, remission and suspension of land-revenue.
65	Costs recoverable as part of arrear.
66	Certified account to be evidence as to arrear.
67	Processes for recovery of arrears.
68	Writ of demand.
69	Arrest and detention of defaulter.
70	Distress and sale of moveable property and crops.
71	Transfer of holding.
72	Attachment of estate or holding.
73	Annulment of assessment of estate or holding.
74	Proclamation of attachment or annulment of assessment, and consequences of the proclamation.
75	Sale of estate or holding.
76	Effect of sale on encumbrances.
77	Proceedings against other immoveable property of defaulter.
78	Remedies open to person denying his liability for an arrear.
79	Proclamation of sale.
80	Indemnity to Revenue-officer with respect to contents of proclamation.
81	Publication of proclamation.
82	Time and conduct of sale.
83	Power to postpone sale.
84	Stay of sale.
85	Payment of deposit by highest bidder.
86	Consequences of failure to pay deposit.
87	Exercise of right of pre-emption.
88	Time for payment in full.
89	Procedure in default of payment.
90	Report of sale to Commissioner.
91	Application to set aside sale.
92	Order confirming or setting aside sale.
93	Refund of purchase-money on setting aside of sale.
94	Proclamation after postponement or on re-sale.
95	On confirmation of sale, possession and certificate to be granted to purchaser.
96	Proceeds of sale.
97	Recovery of certain arrears through Revenue-officer instead of by suit.
98	Other sums recoverable as arrears of land-revenue.
99	Application of Chapter VI to sums recoverable under this Chapter.
101	Power of Revenue-officers to define boundaries.
102	Cost of erection and repair of survey-marks.
103	Recovery of cost incurred by the Government.
104	Power of Revenue-offices to enter on land for purposes of survey and demarcation.
105	Surveys for purpose of preparation of records.
106	Provision of flag holders and chainmen for those surveys.
107	Professional surveys.
108	Penalty for destruction, injury or removal of survey-marks.
109	Report of destruction or removal of or injury to survey-marks.
110	Effect of partitions of estates and tenancies on joint liability for revenue and rent.
111	Application for partition.
112	Restrictions and limitations on partition.
113	Notice of application for partition.
114	Addition of parties to application.
115	Absolute disallowance of partition.
116	Procedure on admission of application.
117	Disposal of questions as to title in property to be divided.
118	Disposal of other questions.
119	Administration of property excluded from partition.
120	Distribution of revenue and rent after partition.
121	Instrument of partition.
122	Delivery of possessions of property allotted on partition.
123	Affirmation of partition s privately effected.
124	Power to make rules as to costs of partition.
125	Re-distribution of land according to custom.
126	Officer who may be empowered to act under this Chapter.
127	Power to refer to arbitration.
128	Order of reference and contents thereof.
129	Nomination of arbitrators.
130	Substitution of arbitrators by parties.
131	Nomination and substitution of arbitrators by Revenue-officers.
132	Process for appearance before arbitrators.
133	Award of arbitrators and presentation thereof.
134	Procedure on presentation of award.
135	Effect of award.
137	Control over such officers and appeals from and revision of their decrees and orders.
138	Power to deposit certain sums other than rent.
139	Procedure in case of deposit on account of a payment due to Government.
140	Procedure in case of other deposits.
142	Attachment of assigned land-revenue.
143	Preservation of attached produce.
144	Division of produce.
145	Village cesses.
146	Superior land-owners’ dues.
147	Substitution of service for payment of land-revenue.
148	Recovery of cost of assessing assigned land-revenue.
149	Penalty for failure to attend within limits of estate in obedience to order of Revenue-officers.
150	Prevention of encroachment on common lands.
151	Papers kept by village-officers to be deemed public documents.
152	Costs.
153	Computation of periods limited for appeals and applications for review.
154	Restriction on Revenue-officers bidding at auctions or trading.
155	Power to make rules.
156	Rules to be made after previous publication.
157	Powers exerciseable by the Financial Commissioner from time to time.
158	Exclusion of jurisdiction of Civil Courts, in matters within the jurisdiction of Revenue-officers.
100	Power of Financial Commissioner to make rules for demarcation of boundaries and erection of survey-marks.
136	Power to invest officers making records-of-rights or general re-assessments with powers of Civil Courts.
30	Restriction on attachment or assignment of remuneration of kanungos, Zaildars, Inamdars and village-officers.
34	Making of that part of the annual record which relates to land-owners, assignees of revenue and occupancy, tenants.
141	Orders of Civil and Criminal Courts for execution of processes against land or the produce thereof to be addressed to a Revenue-officer.