Madhya Pradesh Land Revenue Code, 1959
Bare Act · 1959
- Act number
- 20 of 1959
- Enacted
- 15 September 1959
- Contents
- 241 sections · 18 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
Chapter II — Board of Revenue
- Section 3 – Constitution of Board of Revenue
- Section 4 – Principal seat and other places of sittings of Board of Revenue
- Section 5 – Conditions of service of members of Board
- Section 6 – Salaries and allowances (preview)
- Section 7 – Jurisdiction of Board (preview)
- Section 8 – Powers of Superintendence of Board (preview)
- Section 9 – Exercise of jurisdiction by single member and division benches (preview)
- Section 10 – Cases pending at commencement of Code (preview)
Chapter III — Revenue Officers, their Classes and Powers
- Section 11 – Revenue Officers (preview)
- Section 12 – Control over Revenue Officers (preview)
- Section 13 – Power to alter, create or abolish divisions, districts, sub-divisions and tahsils (preview)
- Section 13A – Cyber Tahsil (preview)
- Section 13B – Appointment of Principal Revenue Commissioner and his powers and duties (preview)
- Section 14 – Power to appoint Commissioners of divisions (preview)
- Section 15 – Power to appoint Additional Commissioner (preview)
- Section 16 – Power to appoint Collector (preview)
- Section 17 – Power to appoint Additional Collectors (preview)
- Section 18 – Appointment and powers of Assistant Collectors, Joint Collectors and Deputy Collectors (preview)
- Section 19 – Appointment of Tahsildars, Additional Tahsildars and Naib Tahsildars (preview)
- Section 20 – Appointment of Superintendents of Land Records and Assistant Superintendents of Land Records (preview)
- Section 22 – Sub-Divisional Officers (preview)
- Section 23 – Subordination of Revenue Officers (preview)
- Section 24 – Conferral by State Government of powers of Revenue Officers on any public servant or local body (preview)
- Section 25 – Powers exercisable on transfer (preview)
- Section 26 – Collector in case of temporary vacancy (preview)
Chapter IV — Procedure of Revenue Officers and Revenue Courts
- Section 27 – Place of holding enquiries (preview)
- Section 28 – Power to enter upon and survey land (preview)
- Section 29 – Power to transfer cases (preview)
- Section 30 – Power to transfer cases to and from subordinates (preview)
- Section 31 – Conferral of Status of Courts on Board and Revenue Officers (preview)
- Section 32 – Inherent power of Revenue Courts (preview)
- Section 33 – Powers of Revenue Officers to require attendance of persons and production of documents and to receive evidence (preview)
- Section 34 – Compelling attendance of witness (preview)
- Section 35 – Hearing in absence of party (preview)
- Section 36 – Adjournment of hearing (preview)
- Section 37 – Power to award costs (preview)
- Section 38 – Manner of executing order to deliver possession of immovable property (preview)
- Section 39 – Persons by whom appearances and applications may be made before and to Revenue Officers (preview)
- Section 40 – Effect of rules in Schedule I (preview)
- Section 42 – Orders of Revenue Officer when reversible by reason of error or irregularity (preview)
- Section 43 – Code of Civil Procedure to apply when no express provision made in this Code (preview)
Chapter V — Appeal, Revision and Review
- Section 44 – Appeal and appellate authorities (preview)
- Section 46 – No appeal against certain orders (preview)
- Section 47 – Limitation of appeals (preview)
- Section 48 – Copy of order objected to accompany petition (preview)
- Section 49 – Power of appellate authority (preview)
- Section 50 – Revision (preview)
- Section 51 – Review of orders (preview)
- Section 52 – Stay of execution of orders (preview)
- Section 53 – Application of Limitation Act (preview)
- Section 54 – Pending revisions (preview)
- Section 55 – Appeal, review or revision of order passed by Cyber Tahsildar (preview)
- Section 56 – Construction of order (preview)
Chapter VI — Land and Land Revenue
- Section 57 – State ownership in all lands (preview)
- Section 58 – Liability of land to payment of land revenue (preview)
- Section 58A – Exemption from payment of land revenue (preview)
- Section 59 – Land revenue according to purpose for which land is used (preview)
- Section 59A – Assessment when to take effect (preview)
- Section 59B – Reassessment on diversion of land prior to coming into force of the Code (preview)
- Section 60 – Assessment of un-assessed land (preview)
Chapter VII — Land Survey
- Section 61 – Definition of land survey (preview)
- Section 62 – Appointment of Commissioner Land Records (preview)
- Section 63 – Appointment of Additional Commissioners Land Records and their powers and duties (preview)
- Section 64 – Notification of proposed land survey (preview)
- Section 65 – District Survey Officer, Deputy Survey Officer and Assistant Survey Officer (preview)
- Section 66 – Powers of District Survey Officer, Deputy Survey Officer and Assistant Survey Officer (preview)
- Section 67 – Formation of survey numbers, block numbers, plot numbers and their grouping into villages in non-urban areas or into sectors in urban areas (preview)
- Section 68 – Power to re-number or sub-divide or amalgamate survey number, block number and plot number (preview)
- Section 69 – Entry of survey, numbers, block numbers and plot numbers and their sub-divisions in land record (preview)
- Section 70 – Determination of abadi of village (preview)
- Section 71 – Power of District Survey Officer to divide or unite villages and sectors or exclude area therefro (preview)
- Section 72 – Assessment (preview)
- Section 73 – All lands liable to assessment (preview)
- Section 74 – Duty of District Survey Officer to maintain maps and records (preview)
- Section 75 – Power of Sub-Divisional Officer to correct errors (preview)
- Section 76 – Powers provided under this Chapter to be exercised by Collector, Sub-Divisional Officer and Tahsildar in area not under land survey (preview)
- Section 77 – Power to make rules (preview)
- Section 78 – Maximum and minimum limits for the rate of assessment (preview)
- Section 79 – Fixation of fair assessment (preview)
- Section 80 – All lands liable to assessment (preview)
- Section 81 – Principles of assessment (preview)
- Section 82 – Announcement of Settlement (preview)
- Section 83 – Introduction of Settlement (preview)
- Section 84 – Remission of enhancement of bhumiswami who relinquishes (preview)
- Section 85 – Term of settlement (preview)
- Section 86 – Power of Collector to complete unfinished proceedings (preview)
- Section 87 – Inquiry into profits of agriculture and value of land (preview)
- Section 88 – Power to transfer, duty of maintaining maps and records to Settlement Officer (preview)
- Section 89 – Power of Sub-Divisional Officer to correct errors (preview)
- Section 90 – Power of Collector during term of Settlement etc (preview)
- Section 91 – Power to grant power of Settlement Officer during term of Settlement (preview)
- Section 91A – Power to make rules (preview)
Chapter VIII — Assessment and Re-Assessment of Land in Urban Areas
- Section 92 – Provisions of Chapter to apply to land in urban areas (preview)
- Section 93 – Powers of Collector to divide lands into plot numbers (preview)
- Section 94 – Powers of Collector to re-number or sub-divide plot numbers (preview)
- Section 95 – Area and assessment of plot numbers and sub-divisions to be entered in records (preview)
- Section 96 – Area in town formed into blocks for assessment (preview)
- Section 97 – Collector to fix standard rate of assessment and publication of standard rates (preview)
- Section 98 – Fixation of standard rates of assessment (preview)
- Section 99 – Maximum and minimum limits for the rate of assessment (preview)
- Section 100 – Collector to assess plot at rate prescribed (preview)
- Section 101 – Term of settlement (preview)
- Section 102 – Assessment fixed shall be land revenue or rent (preview)
- Section 103 – Land revenue or rent fixed under previous settlement or leases to continue (preview)
Chapter IX — Land Records
- Section 104 – Formation of patwari halkas in non-urban area and formation of sectors in urban area and appointment of patwaris and Nagar Sarvekshaks (preview)
- Section 105 – Formation of Revenue Inspector circles in non-urban area (preview)
- Section 106 – Appointment of Revenue Inspectors in non-urban areas (preview)
- Section 107 – Maps of villages, abadi, blocks and sectors (preview)
- Section 108 – Record of rights (preview)
- Section 109 – Acquisition of rights to be reported (preview)
- Section 110 – Mutation of acquisition of right in land records (preview)
- Section 111 – Jurisdiction of Civil Courts (preview)
- Section 113 – Correction of errors in record of rights (preview)
- Section 114 – Land records (preview)
- Section 114A – Bhoo-Adhikar Pustika (preview)
- Section 115 – Correction of wrong or incorrect entry in land record (preview)
- Section 117 – Presumption as to entries in land records (preview)
- Section 120 – Requisition of assistance in preparation of maps and record of rights (preview)
- Section 122 – Exemption from provisions of this Chapter (preview)
- Section 123 – Record-of-rights at commencement of Code (preview)
Chapter X — Boundaries and Boundary Marks, Survey Marks
- Section 124 – Construction of boundary marks of villages, sectors, and survey numbers or plot numbers (preview)
- Section 125 – Disputes regarding boundaries between villages, survey numbers and plot numbers (preview)
- Section 126 – Ejectment of persons wrongfully in possession (preview)
- Section 127 – Demarcation and maintenance of boundary lines (preview)
- Section 128 – Enforcement of repair of boundary or survey marks (preview)
- Section 129 – Demarcation of boundaries of survey number or sub-division of survey number or block number or plot number (preview)
- Section 130 – Penalty for destruction, injury or removal of boundary or survey marks (preview)
- Section 131 – Rights of way and other private easements (preview)
- Section 133 – Removal of obstruction (preview)
- Section 134 – Execution of bond for abstaining from repetition of certain acts (preview)
- Section 135 – Acquisition of land for road, paths, etc (preview)
Chapter XI — Realisation of Land Revenue
- Section 137 – Land revenue first charge on land (preview)
- Section 138 – Responsibility for payment of land revenue (preview)
- Section 139 – Land revenue recoverable from any person, in possession (preview)
- Section 140 – Dates on which land revenue falls due and payable (preview)
- Section 141 – Definition of "arrear" and "defaulter" (preview)
- Section 142 – Person receiving land revenue bound to give receipt (preview)
- Section 143 – Penal interest on delayed payment of Sand revenue (preview)
- Section 144 – Remission or suspension of land revenue on failure of crops (preview)
- Section 145 – Certified account to be evidence as to arrear and defaulter (preview)
- Section 146 – Notice of demand (preview)
- Section 147 – Process for recovery of arrear (preview)
- Section 148 – Costs recoverable as part of arrear (preview)
- Section 149 – Enforcement of processes in other districts (preview)
- Section 150 – Payment before property is knocked down at a sale and thereupon proceeding to be stayed (preview)
- Section 151 – Application of proceeds of sale (preview)
- Section 152 – Land sold for arrears to be free from encumbrances (preview)
- Section 153 – Purchasers title (preview)
- Section 154 – Purchaser not liable for land revenue due prior to sale (preview)
- Section 154A – Powers of the Tahsildar to let out the holding in respect of which arrear is due or any other holding of the defaulter (preview)
- Section 155 – Moneys recoverable as an arrear of land revenue (preview)
- Section 156 – Recovery of moneys from surety (preview)
Chapter XII — Tenure-Holders
- Section 157 – Class of tenure (preview)
- Section 158 – Bhumiswami (preview)
- Section 159 – Land revenue payable by bhumiswamis (preview)
- Section 160 – Revocation of exemption from liability for land revenue (preview)
- Section 161 – Reduction of revenue *** (preview)
- Section 164 – Devolution (preview)
- Section 165 – Rights of transfer (preview)
- Section 166 – Forfeiture in cases of certain transfers (preview)
- Section 167 – Exchange of land (preview)
- Section 168 – Leases (preview)
- Section 170 – Avoidance of transfer in contravention of Section 165 (preview)
- Section 170A – Certain transfers to be set aside (preview)
- Section 170B – Reversion of land of members of aboriginal tribe which was transferred by fraud (preview)
- Section 170C – Advocate not to appear in proceedings under Section 170-A or 170-B without permission (preview)
- Section 170D – Second appeal barred (preview)
- Section 173 – Relinquishments (preview)
- Section 175 – Right of way to relinquished land (preview)
- Section 176 – Abandonment of holding (preview)
- Section 177 – Disposal of holdings (preview)
- Section 178 – Partition of holding (preview)
- Section 178A – Partition of land in life time of Bhumiswami (preview)
- Section 179 – Rights to trees in holding (preview)
- Section 180 – Restriction on transfer of trees (preview)
Chapter XIII — Government Lessees and Service Land
- Section 181 – Government lessees (preview)
- Section 181A – Person having Free hold right shall be Bhumiswami (preview)
- Section 182 – Rights and liabilities of a Government lessee (preview)
- Section 183 – Service land (preview)
Chapter XV — Alluvion and Diluvion
- Section 203 – Alluvion and diluvion (preview)
- Section 204 – Power to make assessment and decide disputes (preview)
Chapter XVI — Consolidation of Holdings
- Section 205 – Definitions (preview)
- Section 206 – Initiation of consolidation proceedings (preview)
- Section 207 – Rejection of application (preview)
- Section 208 – Admission of application (preview)
- Section 209 – Preparation of scheme for consolidation of holdings (preview)
- Section 210 – Confirmation of scheme (preview)
- Section 211 – Procedure on confirmation (preview)
- Section 212 – Right of bhumiswamis to possession of holdings (preview)
- Section 213 – Transfer of rights of bhumiswamis in holdings (preview)
- Section 214 – No instrument necessary to effect transfer (preview)
- Section 215 – Costs of carrying out scheme (preview)
- Section 216 – Recovery of compensation and cost (preview)
- Section 217 – Suspension of partition proceedings during currency of consolidation proceedings (preview)
- Section 218 – Transfer of property during proceedings (preview)
- Section 219 – Rights of bhumiswamis after consolidation same as before (preview)
- Section 220 – Encumbrances of bhumiswamis (preview)
- Section 221 – Power to make rules (preview)
Chapter XVII — Village Officers
- Section 222 – Appointment of patels (preview)
- Section 223 – Remuneration of patels (preview)
- Section 224 – Duties of patels (preview)
- Section 226 – Removal of patels (preview)
- Section 227 – Punishment of patels (preview)
- Section 228 – Appointment of substitute patel (preview)
- Section 229 – Entrustment of village management (preview)
- Section 230 – Appointment of kotwars and their duties (preview)
- Section 231 – Remuneration of Kotwars (preview)
Chapter XVIII — Rights in Abadi and Unoccupied Land and Its Produce
- Section 233 – Record of unoccupied land (preview)
- Section 233A – Land to be set apart for public purposes in urban area (preview)
- Section 234 – Preparation of Nistar Patrak (preview)
- Section 235 – Matters to be provided for in Nistar Patrak (preview)
- Section 236 – Provision in Nistar Patrak for certain matters (preview)
- Section 237 – Collector to set apart land for exercise of Nistar rights (preview)
- Section 238 – Rights in waste land of another village (preview)
- Section 239 – Rights in fruit bearing trees and other trees planted in unoccupied land (preview)
- Section 240 – Prohibition of cutting of certain trees in villages (preview)
- Section 241 – Measures to prevent theft of timber from Government forest (preview)
- Section 242 – Wajib-ul-arz (preview)
- Section 243 – Abadi (preview)
- Section 244 – Disposal of abadi sites (preview)
- Section 245 – Rights to hold house site free of land revenue (preview)
- Section 246 – Rights of persons holding house site in abadi (preview)
- Section 247 – Government's title to minerals (preview)
- Section 248 – Penalty for unauthorisedly taking possession of land (preview)
- Section 249 – Regulation of fishing, hunting etc (preview)
- Section 250 – Reinstatement of Bhumiswami improperly dispossessed (preview)
- Section 250B – Failure to vacate land in favour of allottee of land to be an offence (preview)
- Section 251 – Vesting of tanks in State Government (preview)
- Section 253 – Punishment for contravention of provisions (preview)
Chapter XIX — Miscellaneous
- Section 256 – Inspection and copies of maps and land records (preview)
- Section 257 – Exclusive jurisdiction of revenue authorities (preview)
- Section 257A – Burden of proof and bar of legal practitioners in certain proceedings (preview)
- Section 258 – General rule making power (preview)
- Section 259 – Reference to certain tenures (preview)
- Section 260 – Reference to laws not in force in any region (preview)
- Section 261 – Repeal and savings (preview)
- Section 262 – Transitory provisions (preview)
- Section 263 – Power to remove difficulties (preview)
- Section 264 – Code not to apply in certain cases (preview)