PUNJAB LAND REVENUE RULES, 1968 pdf
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C O N T E N T S
PART I - PRELIMINARY1. 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. Proceedings 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 cases.
7. Commissions– Act V of 1908.
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)
16. Number of headmen.
17. Matters to be considered in the first appointment.
18. Dismissal of headmen.
19. Matters to be considered in appointment of successor.
20. Appointment of revenue farmers and mortgagees 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. Determination of office of substitute.
28. Rules governing appointment and removal of substitute.
29. Remuneration of substitute.
PART IV- RECORDS-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 cases of registered deeds.
35. Production of documents or furnishing of information under section 47.
36. Inspection of records of Patwaris 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 five-yearly abstracts of yield.
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 effected 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 of 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 preceded by attachment.
PROCESS FEES
60. Charge for service of processes.
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.
65. Land measurement or survey.
66. Size of area of Survey / Khasra Number
67. Conditions for and restrictions upon sub-division of Survey / Khasra numbers.
PART IX-A-DEMARCATION OF LAND AND EVICTION OF UNAUTHORISED
LANDOWNERS
67-A. Demarcation of land.
67-B. Eviction of unauthorized land-owners.
PART X-EXECUTION OF CETAIN 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 WPLR Rules.
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
