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18/1881 - The Central Provinces Land-Revenue Act, 1881 ▶

Act Number: 18

Act Name: The Central Provinces Land-Revenue Act, 1881

Year: 1881

Enactment Date: 1881-06-08

Long Title: An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Land-revenue and the powers of Revenue-officers in the Central Provinces.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section Number	Title	Actions
1	Short title.
2	Enactments repealed.
3	Pending proceedings.
4	Interpretation-clause.
5	Chief Controlling Revenue-authority.
6	Revenue-officers.
7	Appointment, suspension and removal of Commissioners, Deputy and Assistant Commissioners.
8	Appointment, suspension and removal of Tahsildars and Naib Tahsildars.
9	Persons holding office when Act comes into force.
10	Power to appoint additional Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners and Tahsildars.
11	Chief Commissioner may invest Assistant Commissioner with powers of Deputy Commissioner.
12	Officers transferred to retain powers with which they were invested.
13	Provision for discharge of duties of Deputy Commissioner dying or being disabled.
14	Chief Commissioner may alter limits of district or tahsil.
16	Power of Deputy Commissioners to distribute work.
17	Power of superior Revenue-authorities to withdraw and transfer cases.
18	Power of Revenue-officers to enter on land, &c.
19	Power to make rules to regulate procedure.
20	Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before and to Revenue-officers.
21	Legal practitioner's or agent's fees not allowed unless for special reasons.
22	Appeals.
23	Limitation of appeals.
24	Powers of revision of Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner.
25	Powers of revision or Chief Commissioner.
26	Review of orders.
27	Notification of revenue-survey.
28	Notification of settlement.
30	Settlement-officer may be invested with powers of Deputy Commissioner.
31	Certain provisions of Chapter II applied to Settlement-officers.
33	Power to invest Settlement-officers with Civil Court powers.
34	Chief Settlement-officer to have powers of Deputy Commissioner.
35	Appeals in suits specified in section 33 when to lie to Chief Settlement-officer.
36	Division of civil work between Settlement-officers and ordinary Courts.
37	Provisions of section 31 not to apply to certain suits.
38	Appeal, reference and revision.
39	Duration of settlement-operations.
40	Settlement-officer to invite claims to lands appearing to have no owner.
41	Application of Act XXIII of 1863.
42	Procedure when limited right over land established.
43	Power to form mahals.
44	Settlement-officer may exclude any town or land from settlement-operations.
45	Erection of new, and repair of existing, boundary-marks.
46	Separate sum to be assessed on every mahal.
47	Matters as to which Chief Commissioner is to instruct Settlement-officer
48	What land taken into account in assessing mahal.
49	Assessment to whom to be offered.
50	Sub-settlement to be made with inferior proprietors when settlement is made with superior.
51	Power to give directions as to payment of certain profits of superior proprietors.
52	Power to make rules for reporting assessment for sanction.
53	Offers of assessment to be made subject to revision and confirmation.
54	Option to accept or refuse assessment.
55	Proprietor not accepting in manner prescribed may be deemed to have accepted.
56	Effect of acceptance of assessment.
57	Procedure when assessment is refused.
58	Procedure when only some proprietors accept assessment.
59	Procedure on refusal of assessment in village in which superior and inferior rights co-exist.
60	Procedure on refusal of assessment by inferior proprietors.
61	Allowance to excluded proprietors.
62	Excluded proprietors to have occupancy-rights in their sir-land.
64	Sub-settlement with malik-makbuzas and other like holders of land.
65	Revenue payable under sub-settlement to be first charge on land.
66	Settlement-officer to apportion assessment over lands held in severalty.
67	to redistribute land according to custom.
68	Settlement-officer to ascertain proprietors.
69	to determine extent of sir-land.
70	to decide disputes among shareholders regarding management of mahal.
71	to determine through what lambardars revenue shall be paid.
72	to ascertain status and rents of tenants.
73	Enquiry into claims to hold free from revenue as against Government.
74	Enquiry as to claims to hold free from revenue as against malguzars.
75	Time from which orders under sections 73 and 74 take effect.
76	Settlement-officer to decide what village-cesses are leviable.
77	to determine certain disputes.
78	Procedure in cases under sections 68,69,70,72 and 77, clauses (b), (c) and (d).
79	Record-of-rights.
80	Chief Commissioner may make rules regarding record-of-rights.
81	Record-of-rights to be made over to Deputy Commissioner.
82	Effect of entries in record-of-rights.
83	Suits to contest certain settlement decisions or entries.
84	Revision of record-of-rights by Chief Commissioner.
85	Proceedings regarding lands the property of Government.
86	Former settlements deemed to have been made under this Act.
87	Effect of awards of proprietary rights at such settlements.
88	When suits for proprietary rights will lie in Civil Courts.
89	Chief Commissioner may allot waste-land to malik-mak-buzas entitled thereto.
90	Power of Chief Commissioner to regulate payment of land-revenue.
92	Tahasildar's statement of account to be conclusive evidence of arrear.
93	Notice of demand.
94	Processes for recovery of arrears.
95	Arrest and imprisonment for recovery of arrear.
96	Imprisonment of defaulter in civil jail.
97	Procedure in sales of moveable property.
98	Management of mahal, share of land attached under section 94(c).
99	Effect of attachment.
100	Profits of land how applied.
101	Attachment when to cease.
102	Transfer under section 94(d).
103	Procedure after receipt of sanction to annulment of settlement.
104	Case of a portion of a mahal being managed or farmed.
105	Settlement on expiry of management or farm.
106	Effect of annulment of settlement.
107	Saving of rights in sir-land.
108	Nature of estate taken by purchaser of land sold for arrears due thereon.
109	Rules for sale of immoveable property.
110	Pre-emption at sales.
111	Application of proceeds of sale of immoveable property.
112	Costs recoverable as part of arrear.
113	Matters as to which Chief Commissioner may make rules.
114	Remedies open to person denying that sum demanded as an arrear is due.
115	Limitation of right to set-off, &c., in suit for arrears.
116	Recovery of arrear through Deputy Commissioner instead of by suit.
117	Saving of right of malguzar to demand revenue of land assessed to revenue and held free.
118	Limitation in suits for revenue.
119	Interest on arrears.
120	Correction of record-of-rights.
121	Revision of record in accordance with provision therein contained.
122	Powers of Deputy Commissioner as to correction of entry or revision of record.
123	Power to direct that rule or custom entered in record-of-rights shall be enforced by Government.
124	Suit to set aside proceedings under section 123.
125	Powers of Chief Commissioner as to registration of changes after preparation of record-of-rights.
126	Possession of proprietary rights to be notified.
127	Fine for neglect to give notice of possession.
128	Obligation to aid in preparation of village-papers.
130	Annual enquiry regarding land held free from revenue.
131	Inspection of revenue-records.
133	Purposes for which officers may be invested with Settlement-officers’ powers.
134	Cognizance of, and penalty for, offence of injuring boundary-marks.
135	Procedure when person injuring cannot be found.
136	Partition of a mahal into two mahals.
137	Power to make rules as to officers.
138	Duties of lambardars.
139	Lambardars may recover fees and other charges from proprietors.
140	Deputy Commissioner may alter channel through which malik-makbuza pays revenue.
141	Duties of mukaddams.
142	Liabilities imposed by law on landholders to attach to mukaddams.
143	Power of mukaddams to recover certain expenses incurred.
144	Chief Commissioner may make rules as to patwaris.
145	Chief Commissioner may make rules for guidance of Deputy Commissioner in certain matters.
146	Chief Commissioner may define duties of patwaris.
147	Patwaris to produce papers for inspection, and to allow copies to be made.
148	Existing officers confirmed.
149	Lambardars’ and other officers’ dues recoverable as arrears.
150	Holders of sir-land in Sambalpur to provide for remuneration of mukaddams.
151	Right to mines and quarries.
152	Exclusive jurisdiction of Revenue-authorities.
153	For what village-cesses suit lies.
154	Limitation of claims for composition in case of waste-land demarcated as property of Government.
155	Restriction on Revenue and Settlement-officers trading and holding land.
157	Recovery of balances due by farmers.
158	Recovery of revenue due when Act comes into force; and of money payable under Act.
159	Past proceedings for collection of revenue legalized.
160	Chief Commissioner may empower persons by name, or confer powers on classes.
161	Chief Commissioner may vary or cancel orders.
162	Chief Commissioner may make rules and attach penalty to breach thereof.
15	Power to invest Revenue-officers, — with power conferred by Code of Civil Procedure; with power to delegate powers.
29	Power to appoint Settlement-officers; and to suspend and remove them
32	Appointment of Settlement-commissioner; delegation to him of Chief Commissioner’s powers.
63	Aggregate amount of allowance granted to, and deduction from rent allowed to, excluded proprietor
91	Arrear.Defaulters.
129	Fees for recording changes; from whom leviable.
132	Purposes for which, when settlement is not in progress, Deputy Commissioner shall exercise Settlement-officers’ powers.
156	When mahal managed or farmed, or upon proclamation under section 98 or 103, rent payable to Deputy Commissioner.