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The Central Provinces Land-Revenue Act, 1881

162 sections · As amended up to 2026-08

Sections

  1. 1Short title
  2. 2Enactments repealed
  3. 3Pending proceedings
  4. 4Interpretation-clause
  5. 5Chief Controlling Revenue-authority
  6. 6Revenue-officers
  7. 7Appointment, suspension and removal of Commissioners, Deputy and Assistant Commissioners
  8. 8Appointment, suspension and removal of Tahsildars and Naib Tahsildars
  9. 9Persons holding office when Act comes into force
  10. 10Power to appoint additional Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners and Tahsildars
  11. 11Chief Commissioner may invest Assistant Commissioner with powers of Deputy Commissioner
  12. 12Officers transferred to retain powers with which they were invested
  13. 13Provision for discharge of duties of Deputy Commissioner dying or being disabled
  14. 14Chief Commissioner may alter limits of district or tahsil
  15. 15Power to invest Revenue-officers, — with power conferred by Code of Civil Procedure; with power to delegate powers
  16. 16Power of Deputy Commissioners to distribute work
  17. 17Power of superior Revenue-authorities to withdraw and transfer cases
  18. 18Power of Revenue-officers to enter on land, &c
  19. 19Power to make rules to regulate procedure
  20. 20Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before and to Revenue-officers
  21. 21Legal practitioner's or agent's fees not allowed unless for special reasons
  22. 22Appeals
  23. 23Limitation of appeals
  24. 24Powers of revision of Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner
  25. 25Powers of revision or Chief Commissioner
  26. 26Review of orders
  27. 27Notification of revenue-survey
  28. 28Notification of settlement
  29. 29Power to appoint Settlement-officers; and to suspend and remove them
  30. 30Settlement-officer may be invested with powers of Deputy Commissioner
  31. 31Certain provisions of Chapter II applied to Settlement-officers
  32. 32Appointment of Settlement-commissioner; delegation to him of Chief Commissioner’s powers
  33. 33Power to invest Settlement-officers with Civil Court powers
  34. 34Chief Settlement-officer to have powers of Deputy Commissioner
  35. 35Appeals in suits specified in section 33 when to lie to Chief Settlement-officer
  36. 36Division of civil work between Settlement-officers and ordinary Courts
  37. 37Provisions of section 31 not to apply to certain suits
  38. 38Appeal, reference and revision
  39. 39Duration of settlement-operations
  40. 40Settlement-officer to invite claims to lands appearing to have no owner
  41. 41Application of Act XXIII of 1863
  42. 42Procedure when limited right over land established
  43. 43Power to form mahals
  44. 44Settlement-officer may exclude any town or land from settlement-operations
  45. 45Erection of new, and repair of existing, boundary-marks
  46. 46Separate sum to be assessed on every mahal
  47. 47Matters as to which Chief Commissioner is to instruct Settlement-officer
  48. 48What land taken into account in assessing mahal
  49. 49Assessment to whom to be offered
  50. 50Sub-settlement to be made with inferior proprietors when settlement is made with superior
  51. 51Power to give directions as to payment of certain profits of superior proprietors
  52. 52Power to make rules for reporting assessment for sanction
  53. 53Offers of assessment to be made subject to revision and confirmation
  54. 54Option to accept or refuse assessment
  55. 55Proprietor not accepting in manner prescribed may be deemed to have accepted
  56. 56Effect of acceptance of assessment
  57. 57Procedure when assessment is refused
  58. 58Procedure when only some proprietors accept assessment
  59. 59Procedure on refusal of assessment in village in which superior and inferior rights co-exist
  60. 60Procedure on refusal of assessment by inferior proprietors
  61. 61Allowance to excluded proprietors
  62. 62Excluded proprietors to have occupancy-rights in their sir-land
  63. 63Aggregate amount of allowance granted to, and deduction from rent allowed to, excluded proprietor
  64. 64Sub-settlement with malik-makbuzas and other like holders of land
  65. 65Revenue payable under sub-settlement to be first charge on land
  66. 66Settlement-officer to apportion assessment over lands held in severalty
  67. 67to redistribute land according to custom
  68. 68Settlement-officer to ascertain proprietors
  69. 69to determine extent of sir-land
  70. 70to decide disputes among shareholders regarding management of mahal
  71. 71to determine through what lambardars revenue shall be paid
  72. 72to ascertain status and rents of tenants
  73. 73Enquiry into claims to hold free from revenue as against Government
  74. 74Enquiry as to claims to hold free from revenue as against malguzars
  75. 75Time from which orders under sections 73 and 74 take effect
  76. 76Settlement-officer to decide what village-cesses are leviable
  77. 77to determine certain disputes
  78. 78Procedure in cases under sections 68,69,70,72 and 77, clauses (b), (c) and (d)
  79. 79Record-of-rights
  80. 80Chief Commissioner may make rules regarding record-of-rights
  81. 81Record-of-rights to be made over to Deputy Commissioner
  82. 82Effect of entries in record-of-rights
  83. 83Suits to contest certain settlement decisions or entries
  84. 84Revision of record-of-rights by Chief Commissioner
  85. 85Proceedings regarding lands the property of Government
  86. 86Former settlements deemed to have been made under this Act
  87. 87Effect of awards of proprietary rights at such settlements
  88. 88When suits for proprietary rights will lie in Civil Courts
  89. 89Chief Commissioner may allot waste-land to malik-mak-buzas entitled thereto
  90. 90Power of Chief Commissioner to regulate payment of land-revenue
  91. 91Arrear.Defaulters
  92. 92Tahasildar's statement of account to be conclusive evidence of arrear
  93. 93Notice of demand
  94. 94Processes for recovery of arrears
  95. 95Arrest and imprisonment for recovery of arrear
  96. 96Imprisonment of defaulter in civil jail
  97. 97Procedure in sales of moveable property
  98. 98Management of mahal, share of land attached under section 94(c)
  99. 99Effect of attachment
  100. 100Profits of land how applied
  101. 101Attachment when to cease
  102. 102Transfer under section 94(d)
  103. 103Procedure after receipt of sanction to annulment of settlement
  104. 104Case of a portion of a mahal being managed or farmed
  105. 105Settlement on expiry of management or farm
  106. 106Effect of annulment of settlement
  107. 107Saving of rights in sir-land
  108. 108Nature of estate taken by purchaser of land sold for arrears due thereon
  109. 109Rules for sale of immoveable property
  110. 110Pre-emption at sales
  111. 111Application of proceeds of sale of immoveable property
  112. 112Costs recoverable as part of arrear
  113. 113Matters as to which Chief Commissioner may make rules
  114. 114Remedies open to person denying that sum demanded as an arrear is due
  115. 115Limitation of right to set-off, &c., in suit for arrears
  116. 116Recovery of arrear through Deputy Commissioner instead of by suit
  117. 117Saving of right of malguzar to demand revenue of land assessed to revenue and held free
  118. 118Limitation in suits for revenue
  119. 119Interest on arrears
  120. 120Correction of record-of-rights
  121. 121Revision of record in accordance with provision therein contained
  122. 122Powers of Deputy Commissioner as to correction of entry or revision of record
  123. 123Power to direct that rule or custom entered in record-of-rights shall be enforced by Government
  124. 124Suit to set aside proceedings under section 123
  125. 125Powers of Chief Commissioner as to registration of changes after preparation of record-of-rights
  126. 126Possession of proprietary rights to be notified
  127. 127Fine for neglect to give notice of possession
  128. 128Obligation to aid in preparation of village-papers
  129. 129Fees for recording changes; from whom leviable
  130. 130Annual enquiry regarding land held free from revenue
  131. 131Inspection of revenue-records
  132. 132Purposes for which, when settlement is not in progress, Deputy Commissioner shall exercise Settlement-officers’ powers
  133. 133Purposes for which officers may be invested with Settlement-officers’ powers
  134. 134Cognizance of, and penalty for, offence of injuring boundary-marks
  135. 135Procedure when person injuring cannot be found
  136. 136Partition of a mahal into two mahals
  137. 137Power to make rules as to officers
  138. 138Duties of lambardars
  139. 139Lambardars may recover fees and other charges from proprietors
  140. 140Deputy Commissioner may alter channel through which malik-makbuza pays revenue
  141. 141Duties of mukaddams
  142. 142Liabilities imposed by law on landholders to attach to mukaddams
  143. 143Power of mukaddams to recover certain expenses incurred
  144. 144Chief Commissioner may make rules as to patwaris
  145. 145Chief Commissioner may make rules for guidance of Deputy Commissioner in certain matters
  146. 146Chief Commissioner may define duties of patwaris
  147. 147Patwaris to produce papers for inspection, and to allow copies to be made
  148. 148Existing officers confirmed
  149. 149Lambardars’ and other officers’ dues recoverable as arrears
  150. 150Holders of sir-land in Sambalpur to provide for remuneration of mukaddams
  151. 151Right to mines and quarries
  152. 152Exclusive jurisdiction of Revenue-authorities
  153. 153For what village-cesses suit lies
  154. 154Limitation of claims for composition in case of waste-land demarcated as property of Government
  155. 155Restriction on Revenue and Settlement-officers trading and holding land
  156. 156When mahal managed or farmed, or upon proclamation under section 98 or 103, rent payable to Deputy Commissioner
  157. 157Recovery of balances due by farmers
  158. 158Recovery of revenue due when Act comes into force; and of money payable under Act
  159. 159Past proceedings for collection of revenue legalized
  160. 160Chief Commissioner may empower persons by name, or confer powers on classes
  161. 161Chief Commissioner may vary or cancel orders
  162. 162Chief Commissioner may make rules and attach penalty to breach thereof