Section 86. Persons by whom appearance, may be made before Revenue-officers as such and not as Revenue Courts

86. Persons by whom appearance, may be made before Revenue-officers as such and not as Revenue Courts. —(1) Appearances before a Revenue-officer as such, and application to and acts to be done before him, under this Act may be made or done. - (a) by the parties themselves, or - (b) by their recognized agents or a legal practitioner : Provided that the employment of a recognized agent or legal practitioner shall not excuse the personal attendance of a party to any proceeding in any case in which personal attendance is specially required by an order of the officer. (2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), recognized agents shall be such persons as the Local Government may by notification declare in this behalf. (3) The fees of a legal practitioner shall not be allowed as cost in any proceeding before a Revenueofficer under this Act, unless that officer considers, for reasons to be recorded by him in writing, that the fees should be allowed.