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Section 84

Power to Call For, Examine and Revise Proceedings of Revenue Officers and Revenue Courts.

The Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887.
(1) The Financial Commissioner may at any time call for the record of any case pending before or disposed of by, any Revenue-officer or Revenue Courts subordinate to him.

(2) A Commissioner or Collector may call for the record of any case pending before or disposed of by, any Revenue-officer or Revenue Court under his control.

(3) If in any case in which a Commissioner or Collector has called for a record he is of opinion that the proceedings taken or the order or decree made should be modified or reversed he shall submit the record with his opinion on the case for the orders of the Financial Commissioner.

(4) If, after examining a record called for by himself under sub-section (1) or submitted to him under sub-section (3), the Financial Commissioner is of opinion that it is inexpedient to interfere with the proceedings or the order or decree, he shall pass an order accordingly.

(5) If, after examining the record the Financial Commissioner is of opinion that it is expedient to interfere with the proceedings or the order or decree on any ground on which the Chief Court in the exercise of its revisional jurisdiction may under the law fir the time being in force interfere with the proceedings or an order or decree of a Civil Court, he shall fix a day for hearing the case, and may, on that or any subsequent day to which he may adjourn the hearing on which he may appoint in this behalf, pass such order as he thinks fit in the case.

(6) Except when the Financial Commissioner fixes under sub-section (5) a day for hearing the case, no party has any right to be heard before the Financial Commissioner when exercising his powers under this section.