The Revenue Recovery Act, 1890 – All Sections

An Act to make better provision for recovering certain public demands.

The Revenue Recovery Act, 1890 has 10 sections in 1 chapters, amended 10 times. Each link below opens the official text of that section. Official PDF on India Code.

  • Section 1 – Title and extent
  • Section 2 – Definitions
  • Section 3 – Recovery of public demands by enforcement of processes in other districts than those in which they become payable
  • Section 4 – Remedy available to person denying liability to pay amount recovered under last foregoing section
  • Section 5 – Recovery by Collectors of sums recoverable as arrears of revenue by other public officers or by local authorities
  • Section 6 – Property liable to sale under this Act
  • Section 7 – Saving of local laws relating to revenue
  • Section 8 – Recovery in India of certain public demands arising beyond India
  • Section 9 – Recovery in India of land revenues etc., accruing in Burma
  • Section 10 – Duty of Collectors to remit moneys collected in certain cases