Section 62. Power to invest Settlement-officers with powers of Civil or Revenue Courts in certain cases

Chapter VI: . SETTLEMENT COURTS. | Section 62(3): (1) The Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare that a settlement of (3) The Local Government may cancel any such notification. Chapter VI: . SETTLEMENT COURTS. | Section 62(4): (1) The Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare that a settlement of (4) While the notification continues in force, the powers specified in it shall be exercised by the officers so invested, and not otherwise: Provided as follows:— (a) the Local Government may, by order published in the official Gazette, direct that any jurisdiction with which any officer has been invested by the notification shall be exercised solely by the Courts by which the jurisdiction would have been exercised if the notification had not been published; and (b) any cases pending before any officer under the notification when it is cancelled may, notwithstanding the cancellation, be disposed of by him as if it continued in force, unless the Local Government directs (as it is hereby empowered to do) that those cases shall be transferred for disposal to the Courts by which they would have been disposed of if the notification had not been published. Chapter VI: . SETTLEMENT COURTS. | Section 62(2): (1) The Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare that a settlement of (2) The 1884.] Panjáb Courts. 275 (Chapter VII.—Supplemental Provisions.—Sections 63 & 64.) CHAPTER VI. SETTLEMENT COURTS. 62. Power to invest Settlement-officers with powers of Civil or Revenue Courts in certain cases. 63. Power to alter subordination of Courts for purposes of section 62. CHAPTER VII. SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS. 64. Mode of appointment and conferring powers. 65. Powers 250 Panjab Courts. [ACT XVIII SECTIONS. 65. Powers exercisable from time to time. 66. Place of sitting of Courts. 67. Vacations. 68. Pending proceedings. Chapter VI: . SETTLEMENT COURTS. | Section 62: (1) The Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare that a settlement of CHAPTER VI. SETTLEMENT COURTS. Power to invest Settlement-officers with powers of Civil or Revenue Courts in certain cases. 62. (1) The Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare that a settlement of land-revenue is in progress in any local area, and invest any officer making or controlling the settlement with all or any of the powers of any Court constituted under this Act for the purpose of trying all or any specified class of suits and appeals relating to land, or the rent, revenue or produce of land, arising in the local area. Chapter VI: . SETTLEMENT COURTS. | Section 62(2): (1) The Local Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare that a settlement of (2) The publication of a notification under this section shall be conclusive evidence that a settlement of land-revenue is in progress in the local area to which the notification refers.