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Land Revenue Rules Manual of Goa Laws (Vol. II) – 830 – Land Revenue Code and Rules Arrangement of Sections 1 Short title, extent and commencement 2 Definitions 3 Power to create, alter or abolish districts, sub-divisions, etc. 4 Appointment of revenue and survey offices 5 Chief controlling authority in revenue matters 6 Function of the Collector and certain other revenue officers 7 Village accountant 8 Village officer to keep such records as may be prescribed 9 Settlement and survey officers 10 Subordination of revenue officers 11 Combination of offices 12 Notification of appointments 13 Seals 14 Title of Government to lands, etc. 15 Extinction of rights of public and individuals in or over any public road, land or path not required for use of public 16 Rights to trees, forest, etc. 17 Recovery of value of trees, etc., unauthorisedly appropriated 18 Lands may be assigned for special purposes, and when assigned, shall not be otherwise used without sanction of Collector 19 Recovering value of natural products unauthorisedly removed from certain lands 20 Classes of holders of land 21 Grant of land 22 Grant of alluvial land vesting in Government 23 Disposal of interstate occupancies 24 Occupancy to be transferable and heritable subject to certain restrictions 25 Occupants' rights are conditional 26 Powers to grant lease 27 Occupant to pay land revenue and Government lessee to pay rent fixed 28 Saving of powers of Government 29 Uses to which holder of land for pur- poses of agriculture may put his land 30 Permission for non-agricultural use 31 Restriction on use 32 Procedure for conversion of use of land from one purpose to another 33 Penalty for so using land without permission 34 Responsibility of tenant or other person for wrongful use 35 Power of Government to exempt lands from provisions of Section 30, 32 , 33, or 34 36 Government title to mines and minerals 37 Removal of encroachments on land vesting in Central Government; provisions for penalty and other incidental matters 38 Regularisation of encroachments 39 Value and land revenue how calculated 40 Summary eviction of person unauthorisedly occupying land vesting in Central Government 41 Forfeiture and removal of property left over after summary eviction 42 Relinquishment 43 Right of way to relinquished land 44 Occupancy when not liable to process of civil court; court to give effect to Collector's certificate 45 Liability of land to land revenue 46 Land revenue to be a paramount charge on the land 47 Forfeited holdings may be taken possession of and otherwise disposed 48 To prevent forfeiture of occupancy certain persons other than occupant may pay land revenue 49 Alluvial lands 50 Land revenue in case of diluvion 51 Assessment of land to land revenue 52 Reduction, suspension or remission of land revenue 53 Responsibility for payment of land revenue 54 Receipts for land revenue 55 Revenue survey, settlement and term of settlement 56 Government to direct revenue survey Manual of Goa Laws (Vol. II) – 831 – Land Revenue Code and Rules 57 Survey officer may require by gene- ral notice or by summons, suitable service from holders of land etc. 58 Assistance to be given by holders and others in measurement or classification of lands 59 Survey numbers and villages 60 Entry of survey numbers and sub- divisions in records 61 Partition 62 Division of survey numbers into new survey numbers 63 Continuance of survey operations at commencement of Code 64 Limit of sites of villages, towns and cities how to be fixed 65 City Survey how to be conducted 65A 66 In certain cases a survey fee to be charged 67 Sanad to be granted without extra charge 68 Power of Government to direct original or revision settlement of land revenue of any lands 69 Assessment how determined 70 Increase in average yield due to the Improvement at the expense of holders not to be taken into account 71 Settlement Officer, how to proceed for making a settlement 72 Settlement report to be printed and published 73 Submission of settlement report to Government and Government orders thereon 74 Powers of Government to place surcharge or grant rebate after every ten years 75 Introduction or settlement 76 Publication of table of revenue rates 77 Preparation of statistical and fiscal records 78 Term of settlement 79 Assessment on individual survey number and sub-division 80 Additional assessment for water advantages 81 Continuance of settlement operations at commencement of Code 82 Power of Collector to correct errors, etc. 83 Non-agricultural assessment of lands to be determined on basis of their non-agricultural use and having regard to urban and non-urban areas 84 Procedure for determining non-agricultural assessment of lands in non-urban areas 85 Procedure for determining non-agricultural assessment in urban areas 86 Non-agricultural assessment not to exceed three per cent. of full market value 87 Power of Collector to fix standard rate of non-agricultural assessment 88 Rate of assessment of lands used for non-agricultural purposes 89 Date of commencement of non- -agricultural assessment 90 Term of assessment fixed under sections 84 to 88 91 Lands exempt from payment of non-agricultural assessment 92 Revocation of exemption 93 Non-agricultural assessment of lands wholly exempt from payment of land revenue 94 Preparation of record of rights 95 Record of rights 96 Acquisition of rights to be reported 97 Omitted 98 Register of cultivator's and crops 99 Obligation to furnish information 100 Fine for neglect to afford information 101 Requisition of assistance in preparation of maps 102 Intimation of transfers by registering officers 103 Correction of clerical errors 104 Land records 105 Presumption of correctness of entries in record of rights and register of mutations 106 Bar of suits 107 Record of rights at commencement of Code 108 Maps and other records open to inspection Manual of Goa Laws (Vol. II) – 832 – Land Revenue Code and Rules 109 Power to transfer duty of maintaining maps and records to settlement officers 110 Fixation and demarcation of boundaries 111 Determination of village boundaries 112 Determination of field boundaries 113 Disputes regarding boundaries between villages, survey numbers and sub-divisions 114 Demarcation of boundaries of survey number or sub-division 115 Effect of settlement of boundaries 116 Construction and repair of boundary marks of survey number and villages etc. 117 Responsibility for maintaining boundary marks 118 Collector to have charge of boundary marks 119 Penalty for injuring boundary marks 120 Claims of Government to have precedence over all others 121 Payment of land revenue 122 Arrear of land revenue 123 Recovery of arrears 124 Notice of demand 125 Distraint and sale of defaulter's movable property 126 Resort to other processes 127 Holding for which arrear is due may be forfeited 128 Sale of defaulter's immovable property 129 Arrest and detention of defaulter 130 Power to arrest by whom to be exercised 131 But all processes to be stayed on security being given 132 Sale to be by auction 133 Procedure in effecting sales 134 Notification of sales 135 Sale by whom to be made; time of sale, etc. 136 Postponement of sale 137 Sale of perishable articles 138 When sale may be stayed 139 Sales of movable property when liable to confirmation 140 Mode of payment for movable property when sale is concluded at once 141 Mode of payment when sale is subject to confirmation 142 Deposit by purchaser in case of sale of immovable property 143 Purchase money when to be paid 144 Effect of default 145 Liability of purchaser for loss by resale 146 Notification before re-sale 147 Setting aside sales of movables 148 Application to set aside sale of immovables 149 Order confirming or setting aside sale 150 Purchaser may apply to set aside sale under certain circumstances 151 Application to set aside sale by person owning or holding interest in property 152 Refund of deposit or purchase- money when sale set aside 153 On confirmation of sale, purchaser to be put in possession. Certificate of purchase 154 Bar of suit against certified purchaser 155 Application of proceeds of sale 156 Surplus not to be paid to creditors except under order of court 157 Certified purchaser liable only for land revenue subsequently due 158 Purchaser's title 159 Claims to attached property how to be disposed of 160 Bar of revenue officer to bid etc. at sale 161 Purchase on nominal bid 162 Sum recoverable under provisions of this Chapter 163 Recovery of free grants as arrear of revenue incase of misuse 164 Recovery of moneys from surety 164 A Recovery of charges in respect of supply of electrical energy 165 Revenue Court 166 Place of hearing 167 Powers to enter upon and survey land 168 Power to transfer cases 169 Power to transfer cases to and from subordinates Manual of Goa Laws (Vol. II) – 833 – Land Revenue Code and Rules 170 Power to take evidence, summon witnesses, etc. 171 Summons to be in writing, signed and sealed; service of summons 172 Compelling, attendance of witness 173 Mode of serving notice 174 Procedure for attendance of witnesses 175 Hearing in absence of party 176 Adjournment of hearing 177 Mode of taking evidence in formal inquiries 178 Writing and explanation of decisions 179 Summary inquiries how to be conducted 180 Formal and summary inquiries to be deemed judicial proceedings 181 Ordinary inquiries how to be conducted 182 Copies and translations, etc., how to be obtained 183 Arrest of defaulter to be made upon warrant 184 Collector how to proceed in order to evict any person wrongfully in possession of land 185 Power to give and apportion costs 186 Appearances before and applications to revenue officers 187 Correction of error or omission 188 Appeals 189 Limitation of appeals 190 Copy of order to accompany petition of appeal 191 Power of appellate authority 192 Revision 193 Review of orders 194 Appeal passed against review or revision 195 Application of limitation Act, 1963. 196 Stay of execution of orders 197 Rules as to decisions or orders expressly made final 198 Delegation of powers 199 Power to make rules 200 Penalty for breach of rules 201 Repeal 202 Protection of action taken in good faith GOVERNMENT OF GOA, DAMAN AND DIU Law and Judicial Department __ Notification LD/2-A/4/68 The following Act passed by the Legislative Assembly of Goa, Daman and Diu which received the Assent of the President of India on the 31st July, 1969 is hereby published for general information. M. S. Borkar, Under Secretary (Law). Panaji, 1st September, 1969. 10th Bhadra, 1891. Manual of Goa Laws (Vol. II) – 834 – Land Revenue Code and Rules The Goa, Daman and Diu Land Revenue Code, 1968 (Act No. 9 of 1969) AN ACT to consolidate and amend the Law relating to Land and Land Revenue in the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu Whereas it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to land and land revenue in the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu and to provide for matters connected therewith; Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Goa, Daman and Diu in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India, as follows:— CHAPTER I Preliminary