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THE LAND REVENUE RULES

THE LAND REVENUE RULES, 1968

THE LAND REVENUE RULES, 1968   The Land Revenue Rules, 1968, are an integral part of the legal framework governing land administration and revenue collection in Pakistan. These rules provide detailed procedures and guidelines for the implementation of the Land Revenue Act, 1967. For a comprehensive understanding of the Land Revenue Rules, 1968, and how they apply to your specific situation or land-related matters, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at 24Justice. Our team of legal experts can offer you personalized advice and assistance. Feel free to reach out, and we’ll be glad to provide you with the information you need to navigate the intricacies of land revenue regulations in Pakistan.     PART I Preliminary   1. Short title and commencement   2. Definitions     PART II Procedure of Revenue Officers   3. Statements and pleadings to be brief   4. Verification of applications, etc.   5. Proceeding not to abate on death or marriage of party   6. In fixing dates, etc. Revenue Officer to follow procedure of Revenue Court   6-A. Remand of case   7. Commissions   8. Expenses of witnesses   9. Record of mutation proceedings   10. Record of other proceedings under the Act   11. Contents of orders   12. Apportionment and recovery of costs   13. Execution of orders of ejectment, etc   14. Charges for service of process through post     PART III Village Headmen (Lambardars)   15. Village headmen   16. Number of headmen   17. Matters to be considered in first appointment   18. Dismissal of headmen   19. Matters to be considered in appointment of successor   20. Appointment of revenue farmers and mortgages as headmen   21. Appointment of officiating headmen in place of absentees   22. Duties of headmen   23. Collection, control and distribution of village officers’ cesses   24. Punishments   25. Appointment of substitutes for non-resident headmen   26. Appointment of other substitutes and their position   27. Dissemination of office of substitute   28. Rules governing appointment and removal of substitute   29. Remuneration of substitute     PART IV Record-of-rights And Periodical Records   30. Other documents included in the records-of-rights and periodical records   31. Manner in which the Record-of-Rights prepared, signed and attested   32. Gist of the order of mutation   33. Report regarding cause of delay in mutation cases   34. Roznamcha Waqiati to be maintained by the Patwari   34-A Collection of mutation fee in case of registered deeds   35. Production of documents or furnishing of information under section 47   36. Inspection of Records of Patwari and grant of certified copies or extracts therefrom   37. Inspection of maps and land records filed in the Tehsil revenue record room or consigned to the district sub divisional revenue record room   37-A Preparation of produce statements and 5 yearly abstracts     PART V Crop Inspection And Kharaba   38. Date on which inspection of each harvest to be commenced   39. Crop Inspection Register   39-A Fard Raftar Girdawari   40. Correction of entries in the Crop Inspection Register   41. Failure of crop to be entered in the Register Girdawari   42. Scale on which relief to be given   43. Circumstances under which no Kharaba Statement is to be prepared     PART VI Demand Statements (Dhal Bachh)   44. Bachh Papers     PART VII A – Collection Of Land-revenue By Lambardars   45. Place of payment     B – Collection Of Land-revenue By Tapedars   46. Payment of land revenue and rates and cesses   47. Security to be furnished by Mukhtiarkar, Head Munshi, Supervising Tapedar and Tapedar   48. Surety to be liable in the same manner as Principal   49. Liability of surety not affected by death of Principal or by his taking a different appointment   50. How surety may withdraw from further liability   51. Register of sureties     COLLECTION OF RATES AND CESSES   52. Number of instalments and amount   53. Rates and cesses paid alongwith first instalments of land revenue   54. Rules in the case of estates in which no land revenue is payable   55. Portion of rates and cesses not payable to Government     RECOVERY OF ARREARS   56. Application by Headmen for recovery of arrears from defaulters   57. Defaulter to be summoned   58. Recovery of arrears from defaulters   59. Sale under section 88 or section 90 to be proceeded by attachment     PROCESS FEES   60. Charge for service of process     PART VIII Remission Of Land Revenue   61. Power to sanction remission     PART IX Survey And Boundaries   62. Demarcated areas of forest land, etc. owned by Government to be considered estates   63. Survey marks   64. Boundary marks     A – Tri-junction Pillars (Sihadas) B – Burjis   65. Land measurement or survey   66. Size of area of Survey/Khasra Number   67. Conditions for and restrictions upon subdivision of Survey/Khasra -numbers     PART IX A Demarcation Of Land And Eviction Of Unauthorized Land-owners   67-A Demarcation of Land   67-B Eviction of unauthorised land-owners     PART X Execution Of Certain Orders Of Civil And Criminal Courts Through Revenue Officers   68. Appraisement of value of produce before sale   69. Agency to be used in conducting sale   70. Date on which possession is to be given to decree-holder ‘of Civil Court     PART XI Miscellaneous   71. Village Note Book   72. Forms       THE P. LAND REVENUE RULES, 1968   13th  July, 1968 No. 377/68-219-U (1).- With reference to the Board of Revenue, West Pakistan Notification No. 82/68-43-U (1), dated the 4th March, 1969, published in the Extraordinary issue of the ‘Gazette of West Pakistan’, dated the 12th March, 1968 and in supersession of all existing rules on the subject, the Board of Revenue, in exercise of the powers conferred

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The Land Revenue Act, 1967

The Land Revenue Act, 1967

The Land Revenue Act, 1967   The Land Revenue Act, 1967, is a significant piece of legislation in Pakistan that governs matters related to land revenue and land administration. It plays a crucial role in regulating land ownership, revenue collection, and land-related disputes in the country.   Preamble   CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 1. Short title, extent and commencement. 2. Power to except any area from provisions unsuited thereto 3. Exclusion of certain land from operation of this act 4. Definitions   CHAPTER II DIVISIONS AND DISTRICTS 5. Province to be divided into Divisions 6. Divisions to be divided into Districts and District into Sub-Division, etc.   CHAPTER III APPOINTMENT AND POWERS OF REVENUE OFFICERS   Appointment 7. Classes of Revenue Officers 8. Appointment of Commissioners and Collectors 9. Additional Commissioners and Additional Collectors 10. Assistant Collectors 11. Tehsildars, etc. 12. Certain appointments to be notified   Administrative Control 13. Superintendent and Control of Revenue Officers 14. Power to distribute business and withdraw and transfer cases 15. Combination of officers   Powers 16. Conferment of powers of Revenue Officers 17. Functions of Revenue Officers 18. Retention of powers by Revenue Officers on transfer   CHAPTER IV PROCEDURE OF REVENUE OFFICERS 19. Subordination of Revenue Officers 20. Powers to make rules as to procedure 21. Persons by whom appearance and applications may be made before and to Revenue officers 22. Powers of Revenue officers to summon persons to give evidence and produce documents. 23. Summons to be in writing, signed and sealed. 24. Mode of service of summons 25. Mode of service of notice, order of proclamation, or copy thereof 26. Mode of making proclamation 27. Inquiries under the act to be deemed judicial proceedings 28. Language of Revenue Offices 29. Arrest of defaulter to be made upon warrant 30. Power of Revenue officers to enter upon any land or premises for purpose of measurements, etc. 31. Place of sittings 32. Proceedings held on holidays 33. Seals 34. Costs 35. Penalty   CHAPTER V VILLAGE OFFICERS 36. Rules regulating appointment, etc, of Village officers 37. Village officers’ Cess 38. Restriction son attachment or assignment of remuneration of Village officers   CHAPTER VI RECORDS   Records-of-Rights and Periodical Records 39. Records-of-Rights and documents included therein 40. Making of Special revision of Record-of-rights 41. Periodical records   Procedure For making Records 42. Making of that part of periodical records which relates to land-owners 43. Making of that part of periodical records which relates to other persons 44. Determination of disputes 45. Restriction on variations of entries in records 46. Mutation fees 47. Obligation to furnish information necessary for the preparation of records 48. Penalty   Rights of Government and presumptions with respect thereto and to other matters 49. Rights of Government in mines and minerals 50. Presumption as to ownership of forests, quarries and waste-lands 51. Compensation for infringement of rights of third parties in exercise of a right of government 52. Presumption in favour of entries in records-of-rights and periodical records 53. Suit for declaratory decrees by person aggrieved by an entry in a record   Supplemental Provisions 54. Record-of-rights and periodical records for groups of estates 54-A. Power to call for information 55. Power to make rules respecting records and other matters connected therewith   CHAPTER VII ASSESSMENT 56. Assessment of land-revenue 56.A Exemption of land revenue: Punjab Amendment  Sind Amendment 57. Basis of Assessment 58. Limit of assessments 59. Notification of intended re-assessment and instructions as to principles of assessment 60. Mode of determining assessment 61. Announcement of assessment 62. Application for reconsideration of assessment 63. Confirmation and duration of assessment 64. Duration of assessment 65. Assessment to remain in force till new assessment takes effect 66. Refusal to be liable for assessment and consequences thereof. 67. Distribution of the assessment of an estate over the holding comprised therein 68. Application for amendment of the distribution of an assessment 69. Appeals from orders under Sections 62 and 68 70. Special assessments 70-A Increase in Land Revenue: 70-B Determination land ownership: 70-C Information about increase in the extent of ownership: 70-D Change in the basis of Exemption or Assessment: 70-E Method of Exemption or assessment of land Revenue 71. Power to make rules 72. Procedure to be followed in making rules 73. Power to issue instructions   CHAPTER VIII COLLECTION OF LAND REVENUE 74. Liability for payment of land-revenue 75. Security for payment of land-revenue 76. Orders to regulate payment of land-revenue 77. Rules to regulate collection, remission and suspension of land-revenue 78. Costs recoverable as part of arrear 79. Certified account to be evidence as an arrear 80. Processes for recovery of arrears 81. Notice of demand 82. Arrest and detention of defaulter 83. Distress and same of movable property and crops 84. Transfer of holding 85. Attachment of estate holding 86. Annulment of assessment of holding 87. Proclamation of attachment or annulment of assessment and consequences of proclamation 88. Sale of estate holding 89. Effect of sale on encumbrances 90. Proceedings against other immovable Property of defaulter 91. Remedies open to person denying his liability for an arrear   Procedure in Sales 92. Proclamation of sale 93. Indemnity to Revenue Officer with respect to contents of proclamation 94. Publication of proclamation 95. Time and conduct of sale 96. Power to postpone sale 97. Stay of sale 98. Deposit by purchaser in case of sale of immovable property 99. Consequences of failure to pay deposit 100. Time for payment in full 101. Procedure in default of payment 102. Report of sale to Commissioner 103. Application to set aside 104. Order confirming or setting aside sales 105. Refund or deposit of purchase money when sale set aside 106. Proclamation after postponement or on re-sale 107. On confirmation of sale possession and certificate to be granted to purchaser 108. Sale of movable property and perishable articles 109. Mode of payment for movable property when sale is concluded on the spot 110. Mode of payment for movable property when sale is subject to

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