The Central Provinces Land-Revenue Act, 1881

Central · 1881

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S. 2Enactments repealed.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