Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
REVENUE OFFICER TO ASSESS PENAL RENT.- (1) Revenue Officer shall make assessment of penal rent to be paid by such person as men- tioned in section 4 for the whole period of such encroachment, as may be prescribed by the Government from time to time. (2) The Revenue Officer may impose such penalty as may be prescribed from time to time, for the unauthorised occupation of the government land in addition to the penal rent assessed under sub- section (1). Ex-246/2001 - 3 - ASSESSMENT OF RENT AND PENALTY NOT TO BE CHALLENGED IN CIVIL COURT- (1) The decision as to the rate or amount of penal rent and the penalty under section 5 shall be recorded in writing and shall not be called in question in any Civil Court. (2) Subject to conditions as may be prescribed, the District Revenue Officer may, in suitable casses, either reduce remit the amount payable in form of penal rent and penalty under sections 5 and 7.