The Central Provinces Land-Revenue Act, 1881 – All Sections

An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Land-revenue and the powers of Revenue-officers in the Central Provinces.

The Central Provinces Land-Revenue Act, 1881 has 162 sections in 5 parts, amended 1 times. Each link below opens the official text of that section. Official PDF on India Code.

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All sections of the Central Provinces Land-Revenue Act, 1881

Part I: PART I , OF SURVEY AND SETTLEMENT

Section 1 – Short title
Section 2 – Enactments repealed (omitted/repealed)
Section 3 – Pending proceedings
Section 4 – Interpretation-clause

Part II: PART II

Section 5 – Chief controlling Revenue-authority
Section 6 – Revenue-officers
Section 7 – Appointment, suspension and removal of Commissioners, Deputy and Assistant Commissioners
Section 8 – Appointment, suspension and removal of Tahsildars and Naib Tahsildars
Section 9 – Persons holding office when Act comes into force
Section 10 – Power to appoint additional Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners and Tahsildars
Section 11 – Chief Commissioner may invest Assistant Commissioner with powers of Deputy Commissioner
Section 12 – Officers transferred to retain powers with which they were invested
Section 13 – Provision for discharge of duties of Deputy Commissioner dying or being disabled
Section 14 – Chief commissioner may alter limits of district or tahsil
Section 15 – Power to invest Revenue-officers
Section 16 – Power of Deputy Commissioner to distribute work
Section 17 – Power of superior Revenue-authorities to withdraw and transfer cases
Section 18 – Power of Revenue-officers to enter on land, &c
Section 19 – Power to make rules to regulate procedure
Section 20 – Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before and to Revenue-officers
Section 21 – Legal practitioner’s or agent’s fees not allowed unless for special reasons
Section 22 – Appeals
Section 23 – Limitation of appeals
Section 24 – Powers of revision of Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner
Section 25 – Powers of revision or Chief Commissioner
Section 26 – Review of orders

Part III: PART III, OF SURVEY AND SETTLEMENT

Section 27 – Notification of revenue-survey. Effect thereof
Section 28 – Notification of settlement
Section 29 – Power to appoint Settlement-officers
Section 30 – Settlement-officer may be invested with powers of Deputy Commissioner
Section 31 – Certain provisions of Chapter II applied to Settlement-officers
Section 32 – Appointment of Settlement-commissioner
Section 33 – Power to invest Settlement-officers with Civil Court powers
Section 34 – Chief Settlement-officer to have powers of Deputy Commissioner
Section 35 – Appeals in suits specified in section 33 when to lie to Chief Settlement-officer
Section 36 – Division of civil work between Settlement-officers and ordinary Courts
Section 37 – Provisions of section 31 not to apply to certain suits
Section 38 – Appeal, reference and revision
Section 39 – Duration of settlement-operations
Section 40 – Settlement-officer to invite claims to lands appearing to have no owner
Section 41 – Application of Act XXIII of 1863
Section 42 – Procedure when limited right over land established
Section 43 – Power to form mahals
Section 44 – Settlement-officer may exclude any town or land from settlement-operations
Section 45 – Erection of new, and repair of existing, boundary-marks
Section 46 – Separate sum to be assessed on every mahal. Progressive assessments
Section 47 – Matters as to which Chief Commissioner is to instruct Settlement-officer
Section 48 – What land taken into account in assessing mahal
Section 49 – Assessment to whom to be offered
Section 50 – Sub-settlement to be made with inferior proprietors when settlement is made with superior
Section 51 – Power to give directions as to payment of certain profits of superior proprietors
Section 52 – Power to make rules for reporting assessment for sanction
Section 53 – Offers of assessment to be made subject to revision and confirmation
Section 54 – Option to accept or refuse assessment
Section 55 – Proprietor not accepting in manner prescribed may be deemed to have accepted
Section 56 – Effect of acceptance of assessment
Section 57 – Procedure when assessment is refused
Section 58 – Procedure when only some proprietors accept assessment
Section 59 – Procedure on refusal of assessment in village in which superior and inferior rights co-exist
Section 60 – Procedure on refusal of assessment by inferior proprietors
Section 61 – Allowance to excluded proprietors
Section 62 – Excluded proprietors to have occupancy-rights in their sir-land
Section 63 – Aggregate amount of allowance granted to, and deduction from rent allowed to, excluded proprietor
Section 64 – Sub-settlement with malik-makbuzas and other like holders of land
Section 65 – Revenue payable under sub-settlement to be first charge on land
Section 66 – Settlement-officer to apportion assessment over lands held in severalty
Section 67 – to redistribute land according to custom
Section 68 – Settlement-officer to as certain proprietors
Section 69 – to determine extent of sir-land
Section 70 – to decide disputes among shareholders regarding management of mahal
Section 71 – to determine through what lambardars revenue shall be paid
Section 72 – to ascertain status and rents of tenants
Section 73 – Enquiry into claims to hold free from revenue as against Government
Section 74 – Enquiry as to claims to hold free from revenue as against malguzars
Section 75 – Time from which orders under sections 73 and 74 take effect
Section 76 – Settlement-officer to decide what village-cesses are leviable
Section 77 – to determine certain disputes
Section 78 – Procedure in cases under sections 68, 69, 70, 72 and 77, clauses (b), (c) and (d)
Section 79 – Record-of-rights
Section 80 – Chief Commissioner may make rules regarding record-of-rights
Section 81 – Record-of-rights to be made over to Deputy Commissioner
Section 82 – Effect of entries in record-of-rights
Section 83 – Suits to contest certain settlement decisions or entries
Section 84 – Revision of record-of-rights by Chief Commissioner
Section 85 – Proceedings regarding lands the property of Government
Section 86 – Former settlements deemed to have been made under this Act
Section 87 – Effect of awards of proprietary rights at such settlements
Section 88 – When suits for proprietary rights will lie in Civil Courts
Section 89 – Chief Commissioner may allot waste-land to malik-makbuzas entitled thereto
Section 90 – Power of Chief Commissioner to regulate payment of land-revenue
Section 91 – Arrear. Defaulters

Part IV: PART IV OF REVENUE-ADMINISTRATION.

Section 92 – Tahsildar’s statement of account to be conclusive evidence of arrear
Section 93 – Notice of demand
Section 94 – Processes for recovery of arrears
Section 95 – Arrest and imprisonment for recovery of arrear
Section 96 – Imprisonment of defaulter in civil jail
Section 97 – Procedure in sales of moveable property
Section 98 – Management of mahal, share or land attached under section 94 (c)
Section 99 – Effect of attachment
Section 100 – Profits of land how applied
Section 101 – Attachment when to cease
Section 102 – Transfer under section 94 (d). Joint and several liability not affected by transfer
Section 103 – Procedure after receipt of sanction to annulment of settlement
Section 104 – Case of a portion of a mahal being managed or farmed
Section 105 – Settlement on expiry of management or farm
Section 106 – Effect of Annulment of settlement
Section 107 – Saving of rights in sir-land
Section 108 – Nature of estate taken by purchaser of land sold for arrears due thereon
Section 109 – Rules for sale of immoveable property
Section 110 – Pre-emption at sales
Section 111 – Application of proceeds of sale of immoveable property
Section 112 – Costs recoverable as part of arrear
Section 113 – Matters as to which Chief Commissioner may make rules
Section 114 – Remedies open to person denying that sum demanded as an arrear is due
Section 115 – Limitation of right to set-off, &c., in suit for arrears
Section 116 – Recovery of arrear through Deputy Commissioner instead of by suit
Section 117 – Saving of right of magluzar to demand revenue of land assessed to revenue and held free
Section 118 – Limitation in suits for revenue
Section 119 – Interest on arrears
Section 120 – Correction of record-of-rights
Section 121 – Revision of record in accordance with provision therein contained
Section 122 – Powers of Deputy Commissioner as to correction of entry or revision of record
Section 123 – Power to direct that rule or custom entered in record-of-rights shall be enforced by Government
Section 124 – Suit to set aside proceedings under section 123
Section 125 – Powers of Chief Commissioner as to registration of changes after preparation of record-of-rights
Section 126 – Possession of proprietary rights to be notified
Section 127 – Fine for neglect to give notice of possession
Section 128 – Obligation to aid in preparation of village-papers
Section 129 – Fees for recording changes
Section 131 – Inspection of revenue-records
Section 130 – Annual enquiry regarding land held free from revenue
Section 132 – Purposes for which, when settlement is not in progress, Deputy Commissioner shall exercise Settlement-officers’ powers
Section 133 – Purposes for which officers may be invested with Settlement-officers’ powers
Section 134 – Cognizance of, and penalty for, offence of injuring boundary-marks
Section 135 – Procedure when person injuring cannot be found
Section 136 – Partition of mahal into two mahals
Section 137 – Power to make rules as to officers
Section 138 – Duties of lambardars
Section 139 – Lambardars may recover free and other charges from proprietors
Section 140 – Deputy Commissioner may alter channel through which malik-makbuza pays revenue
Section 141 – Duties of mukaddams
Section 142 – Liabilities imposed by law on land-holders to attach to mukaddams
Section 143 – Power of mukaddams to recover certain expenses incurred
Section 144 – Chief Commissioner may make rules as to patwaris
Section 145 – Chief Commissioner may make rules for guidance of Deputy Commissioners in certain matters
Section 146 – Chief Commissioner may define duties of patwaris
Section 147 – Patwaris to produce papers for inspection, and to allow copies to be made
Section 148 – Existing officers confirmed
Section 149 – Lambardars’ and other officers’ dues recoverable as arrears
Section 150 – Holders of sir-land in Sambalpur to provide for remuneration of mukaddams

Part V: PART V

Section 151 – Right to mines and quarries
Section 152 – Exclusive jurisdiction of Revenue-authorities
Section 153 – For what village-cesses suit lies
Section 154 – Limitation of claims for composition in case of waste-land demarcated as property of Government
Section 155 – Restriction on Revenue and Settlement-officers trading and holding land
Section 156 – When mahal managed or farmed, or upon proclamation under section 98 or 103, rent payable to Deputy Commissioner
Section 157 – Recovery of balances due by farmers
Section 158 – Recovery of revenue due when Act comes into force; and of money payable under Act
Section 159 – Past proceedings for collection of revenue legalized
Section 160 – Chief Commissioner may empower persons by name, or confer powers on classes
Section 161 – Chief Commissioner may vary or cancel orders
Section 162 – Chief Commissioner may make rules and attach penalty to breach thereof