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The Punjab Land-Revenue Act, 1887

158 sections · As amended up to 2026-08

Sections

  1. 1Title, extent and commencement
  2. 2Repeal
  3. 3Definitions
  4. 4Exclusion of certain land from operation of Act
  5. 5Power to vary limits and alter number of tahsils, districts and divisions
  6. 6Classes of Revenue-officers
  7. 7Financial Commissioner
  8. 8Appointment of Commissioners, and Deputy, Assistant and Extra Assistant Commissioners
  9. 9Appointment of Tahsildars and Naib-tahsildars
  10. 10Powers of Revenue-officers
  11. 11Superintendence and control of Revenue-officers
  12. 12Power to distribute business and withdraw and transfer cases
  13. 13Appeals
  14. 14Limitation for appeals
  15. 15Review by Revenue-officers
  16. 16Power to call for, examine and revise proceedings of Revenue-officers
  17. 17Power to make rules as to procedure
  18. 18Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before and to Revenue-officers
  19. 19Power of Revenue-officer to summon persons
  20. 20Mode of service of summons
  21. 21Mode of service of notice, order or proclamation or copy thereof
  22. 22Mode of making proclamation
  23. 23Place of sitting
  24. 24Holidays
  25. 25Discharge of duties of Collector dying or being disabled
  26. 26Retention of powers by Revenue-officers on transfer
  27. 27Conferment of powers of Revenue-officers
  28. 28Rules respecting kanungos, zaildars, inamdars and village-officers
  29. 29Village-officers’ cess
  30. 30Restriction on attachment or assignment of remuneration of kanungos, Zaildars, Inamdars and village-officers
  31. 31Record-of-rights and documents included therein
  32. 32Making or special revision of record-of-rights
  33. 33Annual record
  34. 34Making of that part of the annual record which relates to land-owners, assignees of revenue and occupancy, tenants
  35. 35Making of that part of the annual record which relates to other persons
  36. 36Determination of disputes
  37. 37Restrictions on variation of entries in records
  38. 38Mutation-fees
  39. 39Penalty for neglect to report acquisition of any right referred to in section 34
  40. 40Obligation to furnish information necessary for the preparation of records
  41. 41Rights of the Government in mines and minerals
  42. 42Presumption as to ownership of forests, quarries and waste-lands
  43. 43Compensation for infringement of rights of third parties in exercise of a right of the Government
  44. 44Presumption in favour of entries in records-of-rights and annual records
  45. 45Suit for declaratory decree by person aggrieved by an entry in a record
  46. 46Power to make rules respecting records and other matters connected therewith
  47. 47Record-of-rights and annual records for groups of estates
  48. 48Assessment of land-revenue
  49. 49Notification of intended re-assessment and instructions, as to principles of assessment
  50. 50Mode of determining assessment
  51. 51Announcement of assessment
  52. 52Application for re-consideration of assessment
  53. 53Confirmation and duration of assessment
  54. 54Assessment to remain in force till new assessment takes effect
  55. 55Refusal to be liable for assessment and consequence thereof
  56. 56Distribution of the assessment of an estate over the holdings comprised therein
  57. 57Application for amendment of the distribution of an assessment
  58. 58Appeals from orders under sections 52 and 57
  59. 59Special assessment
  60. 60Formation of waste-land into separate estates
  61. 61Security for payment of land-revenue
  62. 62Further security for payment of land-revenue
  63. 63Orders to regulate payment of land-revenue
  64. 64Rules to regulate collection, remission and suspension of land-revenue
  65. 65Costs recoverable as part of arrear
  66. 66Certified account to be evidence as to arrear
  67. 67Processes for recovery of arrears
  68. 68Writ of demand
  69. 69Arrest and detention of defaulter
  70. 70Distress and sale of moveable property and crops
  71. 71Transfer of holding
  72. 72Attachment of estate or holding
  73. 73Annulment of assessment of estate or holding
  74. 74Proclamation of attachment or annulment of assessment, and consequences of the proclamation
  75. 75Sale of estate or holding
  76. 76Effect of sale on encumbrances
  77. 77Proceedings against other immoveable property of defaulter
  78. 78Remedies open to person denying his liability for an arrear
  79. 79Proclamation of sale
  80. 80Indemnity to Revenue-officer with respect to contents of proclamation
  81. 81Publication of proclamation
  82. 82Time and conduct of sale
  83. 83Power to postpone sale
  84. 84Stay of sale
  85. 85Payment of deposit by highest bidder
  86. 86Consequences of failure to pay deposit
  87. 87Exercise of right of pre-emption
  88. 88Time for payment in full
  89. 89Procedure in default of payment
  90. 90Report of sale to Commissioner
  91. 91Application to set aside sale
  92. 92Order confirming or setting aside sale
  93. 93Refund of purchase-money on setting aside of sale
  94. 94Proclamation after postponement or on re-sale
  95. 95On confirmation of sale, possession and certificate to be granted to purchaser
  96. 96Proceeds of sale
  97. 97Recovery of certain arrears through Revenue-officer instead of by suit
  98. 98Other sums recoverable as arrears of land-revenue
  99. 99Application of Chapter VI to sums recoverable under this Chapter
  100. 100Power of Financial Commissioner to make rules for demarcation of boundaries and erection of survey-marks
  101. 101Power of Revenue-officers to define boundaries
  102. 102Cost of erection and repair of survey-marks
  103. 103Recovery of cost incurred by the Government
  104. 104Power of Revenue-offices to enter on land for purposes of survey and demarcation
  105. 105Surveys for purpose of preparation of records
  106. 106Provision of flag holders and chainmen for those surveys
  107. 107Professional surveys
  108. 108Penalty for destruction, injury or removal of survey-marks
  109. 109Report of destruction or removal of or injury to survey-marks
  110. 110Effect of partitions of estates and tenancies on joint liability for revenue and rent
  111. 111Application for partition
  112. 112Restrictions and limitations on partition
  113. 113Notice of application for partition
  114. 114Addition of parties to application
  115. 115Absolute disallowance of partition
  116. 116Procedure on admission of application
  117. 117Disposal of questions as to title in property to be divided
  118. 118Disposal of other questions
  119. 119Administration of property excluded from partition
  120. 120Distribution of revenue and rent after partition
  121. 121Instrument of partition
  122. 122Delivery of possessions of property allotted on partition
  123. 123Affirmation of partition s privately effected
  124. 124Power to make rules as to costs of partition
  125. 125Re-distribution of land according to custom
  126. 126Officer who may be empowered to act under this Chapter
  127. 127Power to refer to arbitration
  128. 128Order of reference and contents thereof
  129. 129Nomination of arbitrators
  130. 130Substitution of arbitrators by parties
  131. 131Nomination and substitution of arbitrators by Revenue-officers
  132. 132Process for appearance before arbitrators
  133. 133Award of arbitrators and presentation thereof
  134. 134Procedure on presentation of award
  135. 135Effect of award
  136. 136Power to invest officers making records-of-rights or general re-assessments with powers of Civil Courts
  137. 137Control over such officers and appeals from and revision of their decrees and orders
  138. 138Power to deposit certain sums other than rent
  139. 139Procedure in case of deposit on account of a payment due to Government
  140. 140Procedure in case of other deposits
  141. 141Orders of Civil and Criminal Courts for execution of processes against land or the produce thereof to be addressed to a Revenue-officer
  142. 142Attachment of assigned land-revenue
  143. 143Preservation of attached produce
  144. 144Division of produce
  145. 145Village cesses
  146. 146Superior land-owners’ dues
  147. 147Substitution of service for payment of land-revenue
  148. 148Recovery of cost of assessing assigned land-revenue
  149. 149Penalty for failure to attend within limits of estate in obedience to order of Revenue-officers
  150. 150Prevention of encroachment on common lands
  151. 151Papers kept by village-officers to be deemed public documents
  152. 152Costs
  153. 153Computation of periods limited for appeals and applications for review
  154. 154Restriction on Revenue-officers bidding at auctions or trading
  155. 155Power to make rules
  156. 156Rules to be made after previous publication
  157. 157Powers exerciseable by the Financial Commissioner from time to time
  158. 158Exclusion of jurisdiction of Civil Courts, in matters within the jurisdiction of Revenue-officers