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The Jammu and Kashmir Land Revenue Act, 1996 (1939 A.d.)

An Act to amend, consolidate and re-enact the Jammu and Kashmir Land Revenue Regulation No. 1 of 1980.

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Act Details

Act Number:

Act Year:

1966

Location:

Jammu and Kashmir

Enactment Date:

7/1/1996

Enforcement Date:

29-09-1996

Department:

Department of Revenue

All Section List

Section 1 to Section 141

Section 1

Title, extent and commencement.

Section 2

Repeal.

Section 3

Definition

Section 4

Exclusion of certain land from operation of the Act.

Section 5

Power to vary limits and alter number of Tehsils Districts and Provinces.

Section 5A

Board of Revenue.

Section 5B

Powers and functions of the Board.

Section 6

Classes of Revenue Officers.

Section 6A

Combination of offences.

Section 7

Omitted.

Section 8

Control.

Section 9

Power to distribute business.

Section 10

Power to withdraw and transfer cases.

Section 10A

Exercise of powers by Revenue Officers.

Section 11

Appeals.

Section 12

Limitation for appeals, revisions and reviews.

Section 13

Review by Revenue Officers.

Section 14

Omitted.

Section 15

Power to revise orders.

Section 15A

Power of Revenue Officers to summon persons.

Section 15B

Mode of service of summons.

Section 15C

Mode of service of notice, order of proclamation or copy thereof.

Section 15D

Mode of making proclamation.

Section 16

Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before and to Revenue Officers.

Section 17

Place of sitting

Section 18

Holidays.

Section 19

Retention of powers by the Revenue Officer on transfer.

Section 19A

Power to refer for enquiry and report.

Section 20

Rules respecting Lambardars.

Section 21

Record-of-rights and documents included therein.

Section 22

Making of special revision of record-of-right.

Section 22A

Preparation of Pass Book.

Section 22B

Responsibility of the Competent Authority.

Section 22C

Official copy of the Pass Book to be kept upto date.

Section 22D

Pass Book to be kept up to date.

Section 22E

Entries to be made by the Banks and financial institutions in the Pass Book.

Section 22F

Alteration in the Pass Book.

Section 22G

Issue of the true copy of the Pass Book.

Section 22H

Issue of additional Pass Book to the joint holders.

Section 22I

Issue of Pass Book to the heirs of land holder.

Section 23

Annual records.

Section 23A

Consolidation of land and prevention of fragmentation of land holdings.

Section 24

Making of that part of the annual record which relates to land-holders and occupants.

Section 25

Making of that part of the annual record which relates to other persons.

Section 26

Determination of disputes.

Section 27

Restriction on variation of entries in records

Section 28

Mutation fees.

Section 29

Penalty for neglect to report acquisition of any right referred to, in section 24.

Section 30

Obligation to furnish information necessary for the preparation of records.

Section 31

Presumption in favour of entries in records-of-rights and annual records.

Section 32

Suit for declaratory decree by person aggrieved by an entry in a record.

Section 33

Power to make rules respecting records and other matters connected therewith.

Section 34

Records-of-rights and annual records for groups of estates.

Section 35

Right of the Government in mines and minerals.

Section 35A

Trees on Kaslsa land.

Section 36

Provision relating to royal and reserved trees.

Section 37

Reserved trees.

Section 38

Penalties.

Section 39

Presumption as to ownership of forest and water land.

Section 40

Compensation for infringement of the rights of third parties in exercise of a right of the State.

Section 41

Assessment of land revenue.

Section 41A

Surcharge.

Section 42

Notification of intended reassessment and instruction as to principles of assessment.

Section 43

Sanction to proposed assessment and its duration.

Section 44

Announcement of assessment.

Section 45

Application of reconsideration of assessment.

Section 46

Confirmation of assessment.

Section 47

Assessment to remain in force till new assessment takes effect.

Section 48

Refusal to liable for assessment and consequences thereof.

Section 49

Distribution of the assessment on an estate over the holdings comprised therein.

Section 50

Application for amendment of the distribution of an assessment.

Section 51

After Settlement, Collector or Assistant Collector to discharge duties of Settlement Officer.

Section 52

Special assessment.

Section 53

Formation of State forests from excess waste land.

Section 54

Security for payment of land revenue.

Section 54A

Exemption from payment of land revenue.

Section 55

Further security for payment of Land revenue.

Section 56

Orders to regulate payment of land revenue.

Section 57

Rules to regulate collection, remission and suspension of land revenue.

Section 58

Interest chargeable on arrear accrued more than six months; such interest and costs of any process, recoverable as part of arrear.

Section 59

Certified account to be evidence as to arrear.

Section 60

Recovery of public demands by enforcement of process in other districts than those in which they become payable.

Section 61

Process for recovery of arrears.

Section 62

Writ of demand.

Section 63

Arrest and detention of defaulter.

Section 64

Distress and sale of moveable property and crops.

Section 65

Transfer of holding.

Section 66

Attachment of estate or holding

Section 67

Annulment of assessment of estate or holding.

Section 68

Proclamation of attachment or annulment of assessment and consequences of the proclamation.

Section 69

Sale of estate or holding.

Section 70

Effect of sale on encumbrances.

Section 71

Proceedings against other immovable property of defaulter.

Section 72

Remedies open to person denying his liability for an arrear.

Section 73

Proclamation of sale.

Section 74

Indemnity to revenue officer with respect to contents of proclamation.

Section 75

Publication of proclamation.

Section 76

Time and conduct of sale.

Section 77

Power to postpone sale.

Section 78

Stay of sale.

Section 79

Payment of deposit by highest bidder.

Section 80

Consequence of failure.

Section 81

Time for payment in full.

Section 82

Procedure on default of payment.

Section 83

Report of sale to Divisional Commissioner.

Section 84

Application to set aside sale.

Section 85

Order confirming or setting aside sale.

Section 86

Refund of purchase-money on setting aside of sale.

Section 87

Proclamation after postponement or on re-sale.

Section 88

On confirmation of sale possession and certificate to be granted to purchaser.

Section 89

Proceeds of sale.

Section 90

Recovery of certain arrears through Revenue officer instead of by suit.

Section 91

Other sum recoverable as arrears of land revenue.

Section 92

Application of Chapter VII to sums recoverable under this Chapter.

Section 92A

Recovery of certain arrears through Revenue officers instead of by suit.

Section 93

Power of Government to make rules for demarcation of boundaries and erection of survey marks.

Section 94

Power of Revenue officer to define boundaries.

Section 95

Power of Revenue officer in proceedings under section 94 to reinstate party dispossessed.

Section 96

Cost of erection and repair of survey marks.

Section 97

Recovery of cost incurred by the Government.

Section 98

Power of Revenue officers to enter on land for purposes of survey and demarcation.

Section 99

Surveys for purpose of preparation of records.

Section 100

Provision of flag-holders and chainmen for surveys.

Section 101

Professional surveys.

Section 102

Penalty for destruction, injury or removal of survey-marks.

Section 103

Report of destruction or removal of, or injury to, survey-marks.

Section 104

Effect of partitions of estates and tenancies on joint liability for revenue and rent.

Section 105

Application for partition.

Section 106

Restrictions and limitations on partition.

Section 107

Notice of application for partition.

Section 108

Addition of parties to application.

Section 109

Absolute disallowance of partition.

Section 110

Procedure on objection that partition has already been made privately.

Section 111

Procedure on admission of application.

Section 111A

Objection raising question of title.

Section 112

Collector’s decrees equivalent to decrees of Civil Court.

Section 112A

Stay of partition pending decision of appeal.

Section 113

Disposal of other questions.

Section 114

Administration of property excluded from partition.

Section 115

Distribution of revenue and rent after partition.

Section 116

Instrument of partition.

Section 117

Procedure for dealing with applications for parti- of Shamilat lands.

Section 118

Affirmation of partitions privately effected.

Section 118A

Partition of Shamilat lands.

Section 118B

Procedure for dealing with applications for partition of Shamilat lands.

Section 118C

Disposal of questions of title.

Section 118D

Completion of partition and delivery of possession.

Section 118E

Procedure for determining mode of partition where Shamilat land held by a co-sharer exceeds the share due.

Section 119

Power to make rules as to costs of partition.

Section 119A

Proceedings.

Section 119B

Land lease-agreement, termination, rights and responsibilities.

Section 119C

Preparation of Regional plan by Board.

Section 119D

Offences and penalties.

Section 119E

Punishment under other law not barred.

Section 119F

Offences by companies.

Section 119G

119-G

Section 120

Power to refer to arbitration.

Section 121

Procedure to be followed in Settlement proceedings when question of title arises.

Section 122

Power to supply certain sums other than rent.

Section 123

Disposal of the deposit.

Section 124

Orders of civil and criminal Courts for execution of processes against land or the produce thereof to be addressed to a Revenue officer.

Section 125

Attachments of assigned land revenue.

Section 126

Preservation of attached produce.

Section 127

Section 128

Section 129

Section 130

Section 131

Section 132

Penalty for failure to attend in obedience to order of Revenue officer.

Section 133

Prevention of encroachment on common land prevention of encroachments on or cultivation of common land, or land reserved for public purposes or of which cultivation has been prohibited or is objectionable, or by person not entitled to bring it under cultivation.

Section 133A

Restriction on conversion of agricultural land and process for permission of nonagriculture (NA) use.

Section 133B

Prohibition to convert water surface, water field or floating field into land in Kashmir Province.

Section 133BB

Restriction on use of grazing land, etc. and prohibition on transfer

Section 133C

Land converted in violation to escheat to Government.

Section 133D

Punishment.

Section 133E

Omitted.

Section 133F

Appeal.

Section 133G

Jurisdiction of civil courts barred in certain matters.

Section 133H

Transfer of land to non-agriculturist barred.

Section 133I

Transfer of land in favour of public trust for charitable purposes.

Section 133J

Transfer of land for the purpose of promotion of healthcare or education.

Section 133K

Transfer of land for industrial, commercial or housing agricultural purposes or any other public purpose.

Section 133L

Transfer of land under sections 133-H, 133-I, 133-J and 133-K subject to conditions.

Section 134

Papers kept by village officers to be deemed public documents.

Section 135

Costs.

Section 136

Restriction on Revenue Officers bidding at auction or trading.

Section 137

Power to make rules.

Section 138

Rules.

Section 138A

138-A

Section 139

Exclusion of jurisdiction of civil Courts in matters within the jurisdiction of Revenue Officers.

Section 140

Repeal.

Section 140A

Regularization of certain cases of unauthorised occupation.

Section 141

Removal of difficulties.