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Procedure of Revenue Officer.-(1) The State Government may take rules consistent with this Act for regulating the procedure of Revenue Officers under this Act in cases in which a procedure is not prescribed by this Act. 32 H.P. TENANCY AND LAND REFORMS ACT, 1972 (2) The rules may provide, among other matters, for the mode of enforcing orders of ejectment from, and delivery of possession of immovable property, and rules providing for those matters may confer on a Revenue Officer all or any of the powers in regard to contempts, resistance and the like which a Civil Court may exercise in the execution of a decree whereby it has adjudged ejectment from, or delivery of possession of, such property. (3) The rules may also provide for the mode of executing orders as to cost, and may adapt to proceedings under this Act of all or any of the provisions of the Himachal Pradesh Land Revenue Act, 1954, (6 of 1954), or the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, (17 of 1887), as the case may be, with respect to arbitration. (4) Subject to the rules under this section, a Revenue Officer may refer any application or case which he is empowered to dispose of under this Act to another Revenue Officer for investigation and report, and may decide the case upon the report.