Section 44: Settlement-officer may exclude any town or land from settlement-operations.
The Central Provinces Land-Revenue Act, 1881Central Act · Act 18 of 1881
For the purpose of excluding from all or any of the operations of the settlement any town or any land from which the owner can derive no profit, the Settlement-officer may mark off the site and determine the limits of such town or land:
Provided that no land in respect of which land-revenue payable at the date of the notification issued under section twenty-eight shall, under this section, be exempted from assessment without the sanction of the Chief Commissioner.