Jammu and Kashmir Land Revenue Act, 1996

Bare Act · 1996

Act number: 12 of 1966
Enacted: 1 July 1996
Contents: 193 sections

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Section 1 – Title, extent and commencement
Section 2 – Repeal
Section 3 – Definition
Section 4 – Exclusion of certain land from operation of the Act
Section 5 – Power to vary limits and alter number of Tehsils Districts and Provinces
Section 5-A – Board of Revenue (preview)
Section 5B – Powers and functions of the Board (preview)
Section 6 – Classes of Revenue Officers (preview)
Section 6-A – Combination of offences (preview)
Section 7 – Omitted (preview)
Section 8 – Control (preview)
Section 9 – Power to distribute business (preview)
Section 10 – Power to withdraw and transfer cases (preview)
Section 10-A – Exercise of powers by Revenue Officers (preview)
Section 11 – Appeals (preview)
Section 12 – Limitation for appeals, revisions and reviews (preview)
Section 13 – Review by Revenue Officers (preview)
Section 14 – Omitted (preview)
Section 15 – Power to revise orders (preview)
Section 15-A – Power of Revenue Officers to summon persons (preview)
Section 15-B – Mode of service of summons (preview)
Section 15-C – Mode of service of notice, order of proclamation or copy thereof (preview)
Section 15-D – Mode of making proclamation (preview)
Section 16 – Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before and to Revenue Officers (preview)
Section 17 – Place of sitting (preview)
Section 18 – Holidays (preview)
Section 19 – Retention of powers by the Revenue Officer on transfer (preview)
Section 19-A – Power to refer for enquiry and report (preview)
Section 20 – Rules respecting Lambardars (preview)
Section 21 – Record-of-rights and documents included therein (preview)
Section 22 – Making of special revision of record-of-right (preview)
Section 22-A – Preparation of Pass Book (preview)
Section 22-B – Responsibility of the Competent Authority (preview)
Section 22-C – Official copy of the Pass Book to be kept upto date (preview)
Section 22-D – Pass Book to be kept up to date (preview)
Section 22-E – Entries to be made by the Banks and financial institutions in the Pass Book (preview)
Section 22-F – Alteration in the Pass Book (preview)
Section 22-G – Issue of the true copy of the Pass Book (preview)
Section 22-H – Issue of additional Pass Book to the joint holders (preview)
Section 22-I – Issue of Pass Book to the heirs of land holder (preview)
Section 23 – Annual records (preview)
Section 23-A – Consolidation of land and prevention of fragmentation of land holdings (preview)
Section 24 – Making of that part of the annual record which relates to land-holders and occupants (preview)
Section 25 – Making of that part of the annual record which relates to other persons (preview)
Section 26 – Determination of disputes (preview)
Section 27 – Restriction on variation of entries in records (preview)
Section 28 – Mutation fees (preview)
Section 29 – Penalty for neglect to report acquisition of any right referred to, in section 24 (preview)
Section 30 – Obligation to furnish information necessary for the preparation of records (preview)
Section 31 – Presumption in favour of entries in records-of-rights and annual records (preview)
Section 32 – Suit for declaratory decree by person aggrieved by an entry in a record (preview)
Section 33 – Power to make rules respecting records and other matters connected therewith (preview)
Section 34 – Records-of-rights and annual records for groups of estates (preview)
Section 35 – Right of the Government in mines and minerals (preview)
Section 35-A – Trees on Kaslsa land (preview)
Section 36 – Provision relating to royal and reserved trees (preview)
Section 37 – Reserved trees (preview)
Section 38 – Penalties (preview)
Section 39 – Presumption as to ownership of forest and water land (preview)
Section 40 – Compensation for infringement of the rights of third parties in exercise of a right of the State (preview)
Section 41 – Assessment of land revenue (preview)
Section 41-A – Surcharge (preview)
Section 42 – Notification of intended reassessment and instruction as to principles of assessment (preview)
Section 43 – Sanction to proposed assessment and its duration (preview)
Section 44 – Announcement of assessment (preview)
Section 45 – Application of reconsideration of assessment (preview)
Section 46 – Confirmation of assessment (preview)
Section 47 – Assessment to remain in force till new assessment takes effect (preview)
Section 48 – Refusal to liable for assessment and consequences thereof (preview)
Section 49 – Distribution of the assessment on an estate over the holdings comprised therein (preview)
Section 50 – Application for amendment of the distribution of an assessment (preview)
Section 51 – After Settlement, Collector or Assistant Collector to discharge duties of Settlement Officer (preview)
Section 52 – Special assessment (preview)
Section 53 – Formation of State forests from excess waste land (preview)
Section 54 – Security for payment of land revenue (preview)
Section 54-A – Exemption from payment of land revenue (preview)
Section 55 – Further security for payment of Land revenue (preview)
Section 56 – Orders to regulate payment of land revenue (preview)
Section 57 – Rules to regulate collection, remission and suspension of land revenue (preview)
Section 58 – Interest chargeable on arrear accrued more than six months; such interest and costs of any process, recoverable as part of arrear (preview)
Section 59 – Certified account to be evidence as to arrear (preview)
Section 60 – Recovery of public demands by enforcement of process in other districts than those in which they become payable (preview)
Section 61 – Process for recovery of arrears (preview)
Section 62 – Writ of demand (preview)
Section 63 – Arrest and detention of defaulter (preview)
Section 64 – Distress and sale of moveable property and crops (preview)
Section 65 – Transfer of holding (preview)
Section 66 – Attachment of estate or holding (preview)
Section 67 – Annulment of assessment of estate or holding (preview)
Section 68 – Proclamation of attachment or annulment of assessment and consequences of the proclamation (preview)
Section 69 – Sale of estate or holding (preview)
Section 70 – Effect of sale on encumbrances (preview)
Section 71 – Proceedings against other immovable property of defaulter (preview)
Section 72 – Remedies open to person denying his liability for an arrear (preview)
Section 73 – Proclamation of sale (preview)
Section 74 – Indemnity to revenue officer with respect to contents of proclamation (preview)
Section 75 – Publication of proclamation (preview)
Section 76 – Time and conduct of sale (preview)
Section 77 – Power to postpone sale (preview)
Section 78 – Stay of sale (preview)
Section 79 – Payment of deposit by highest bidder (preview)
Section 80 – Consequence of failure (preview)
Section 81 – Time for payment in full (preview)
Section 82 – Procedure on default of payment (preview)
Section 83 – Report of sale to Divisional Commissioner (preview)
Section 84 – Application to set aside sale (preview)
Section 85 – Order confirming or setting aside sale (preview)
Section 86 – Refund of purchase-money on setting aside of sale (preview)
Section 87 – Proclamation after postponement or on re-sale (preview)
Section 88 – On confirmation of sale possession and certificate to be granted to purchaser (preview)
Section 89 – Proceeds of sale (preview)
Section 90 – Recovery of certain arrears through Revenue officer instead of by suit (preview)
Section 91 – Other sum recoverable as arrears of land revenue (preview)
Section 92 – Application of Chapter VII to sums recoverable under this Chapter (preview)
Section 92-A – Recovery of certain arrears through Revenue officers instead of by suit (preview)
Section 93 – Power of Government to make rules for demarcation of boundaries and erection of survey marks (preview)
Section 94 – Power of Revenue officer to define boundaries (preview)
Section 95 – Power of Revenue officer in proceedings under section 94 to reinstate party dispossessed (preview)
Section 96 – Cost of erection and repair of survey marks (preview)
Section 97 – Recovery of cost incurred by the Government (preview)
Section 98 – Power of Revenue officers to enter on land for purposes of survey and demarcation (preview)
Section 99 – Surveys for purpose of preparation of records (preview)
Section 100 – Provision of flag-holders and chainmen for surveys (preview)
Section 101 – Professional surveys (preview)
Section 102 – Penalty for destruction, injury or removal of survey-marks (preview)
Section 103 – Report of destruction or removal of, or injury to, survey-marks (preview)
Section 104 – Effect of partitions of estates and tenancies on joint liability for revenue and rent (preview)
Section 105 – Application for partition (preview)
Section 106 – Restrictions and limitations on partition (preview)
Section 107 – Notice of application for partition (preview)
Section 108 – Addition of parties to application (preview)
Section 109 – Absolute disallowance of partition (preview)
Section 110 – Procedure on objection that partition has already been made privately (preview)
Section 111 – Procedure on admission of application (preview)
Section 111-A – Objection raising question of title (preview)
Section 112 – Collector’s decrees equivalent to decrees of Civil Court (preview)
Section 112-A – Stay of partition pending decision of appeal (preview)
Section 113 – Disposal of other questions (preview)
Section 114 – Administration of property excluded from partition (preview)
Section 115 – Distribution of revenue and rent after partition (preview)
Section 116 – Instrument of partition (preview)
Section 117 – Procedure for dealing with applications for parti- of Shamilat lands (preview)
Section 118 – Affirmation of partitions privately effected (preview)
Section 118-A – Partition of Shamilat lands (preview)
Section 118-B – Procedure for dealing with applications for partition of Shamilat lands (preview)
Section 118-C – Disposal of questions of title (preview)
Section 118-D – Completion of partition and delivery of possession (preview)
Section 118-E – Procedure for determining mode of partition where Shamilat land held by a co-sharer exceeds the share due (preview)
Section 119 – Power to make rules as to costs of partition (preview)
Section 119-A – Proceedings (preview)
Section 119-B – Land lease-agreement, termination, rights and responsibilities (preview)
Section 119-C – Preparation of Regional plan by Board (preview)
Section 119-D – Offences and penalties (preview)
Section 119-E – Punishment under other law not barred (preview)
Section 119-F – Offences by companies (preview)
Section 119-G – 119-G (preview)
Section 120 – Power to refer to arbitration (preview)
Section 121 – Procedure to be followed in Settlement proceedings when question of title arises (preview)
Section 122 – Power to supply certain sums other than rent (preview)
Section 123 – Disposal of the deposit (preview)
Section 124 – Orders of civil and criminal Courts for execution of processes against land or the produce thereof to be addressed to a Revenue officer (preview)
Section 125 – Attachments of assigned land revenue (preview)
Section 126 – Preservation of attached produce (preview)
Section 127 – Division of produce (preview)
Section 128 – Village cesses (preview)
Section 129 – Omitted (preview)
Section 130 – Omitted (preview)
Section 131 – Omitted (preview)
Section 132 – Penalty for failure to attend in obedience to order of Revenue officer (preview)
Section 133 – Prevention of encroachment on common land prevention of encroachments on or cultivation of common land, or land reserved for public purposes or of which cultivation has been prohibited or is objectionable, or by person not entitled to bring it under cultivation (preview)
Section 133-A – Restriction on conversion of agricultural land and process for permission of nonagriculture (NA) use (preview)
Section 133-B – Prohibition to convert water surface, water field or floating field into land in Kashmir Province (preview)
Section 133-BB – Restriction on use of grazing land, etc. and prohibition on transfer (preview)
Section 133-C – Land converted in violation to escheat to Government (preview)
Section 133-D – Punishment (preview)
Section 133-E – Omitted (preview)
Section 133-F – Appeal (preview)
Section 133-G – Jurisdiction of civil courts barred in certain matters (preview)
Section 133-H – Transfer of land to non-agriculturist barred (preview)
Section 133-I – Transfer of land in favour of public trust for charitable purposes (preview)
Section 133-J – Transfer of land for the purpose of promotion of healthcare or education (preview)
Section 133-K – Transfer of land for industrial, commercial or housing agricultural purposes or any other public purpose (preview)
Section 133-L – Transfer of land under sections 133-H, 133-I, 133-J and 133-K subject to conditions (preview)
Section 134 – Papers kept by village officers to be deemed public documents (preview)
Section 135 – Costs (preview)
Section 136 – Restriction on Revenue Officers bidding at auction or trading (preview)
Section 137 – Power to make rules (preview)
Section 138 – Rules (preview)
Section 138-A – 138-A (preview)
Section 139 – Exclusion of jurisdiction of civil Courts in matters within the jurisdiction of Revenue Officers (preview)
Section 140 – Repeal (preview)
Section 140-A – Regularization of certain cases of unauthorised occupation (preview)
Section 141 – Removal of difficulties (preview)

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