Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Appointment of assessors and procedure of referee.— (1) When a Revenue-Officer appoints referee under the last foregoing sec- tion, he may, in his discretion give him instructions with respect to the association with himself or any other persons as assessors, the number, qualifications and selection of those assessors, and the procedure to be followed in making the division or appraisement. (2) The referee so appointed shall make the division or appraisement in accordance with any institutions which he may have received from the Revenue Officer under the last foregoing sub-section. (3) Before making the division or appraisement the referee shall give notice to the landlord and the tenant of the time and place at which the division or appraisement will be made, but, if either the landlord or the tenant fails to attend either personally or by agent, the referee may pro- ceed ex parte. THE PUNJAB TENANCY ACT, 1887 15 Oections:- 22 - 24 flooded, the rent payable in respect of the land or part may be reduced to the share or rates, or with reference to the rent in gross, as the case may be, paid by tenants, having a similar right of occupancy for unirrigated or unflooded land of a similar description and with similar advantages.