(1) Any person acquiring by inheritance, purchase, mortgage, gift or otherwise, any right in an estate as a land-owner 10[etc.] assignee of land revenue, or
1. Substituted for the word “annual” vide H.P. Act No. 21 of 1976, Sec. 10.
2. The words “by the Revenue Officer concerned for each estate” substituted for the words “by the Patwari of each estate” vide H.P. Act No. 41 of 2011 again substituted for the words “by the Revenue Officer concerned for each estate” vide H.P. Act No. 47 of 2013.
3. The words “be called the annual record for the estate, and shall” deleted vide H.P.
Act No. 21 of 1976.
4. Substituted for the word “annual” vide H.P. Act No. 41 of 2011.
5. Inserted vide H.P. Act No. 21 of 1976.
6. The words “and the Revenue Officer” inserted vide H.P. Act No. 41 of 2011 and omitted vide H.P. Act No. 47 of 2013..
7. Section 34-A. inserted vide H.P. Act No. 3 of 1996, w.e.f. 23.9.1996.
8. Substituted for the word “annual” Act No. 21 of 1976.
9. Inserted vide H.P. Act No. 21 of 1976.
10. Inserted vide H.P. Act No. 21 of 1976.
THE HIMACHAL PRADESH LAND REVENUE ACT, 1954 27 tenant having a right of occupancy, shall report his acquisition of the right to the patwari of the estate 1[XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX]
(2) If the person acquiring the right is a minor or otherwise disqualified, his guardian or other person having charge of his property shall make the report to the patwari 2[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
(3) The patwari 3[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]shall enter in his register of mutations every report made to him under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) and shall also make an entry therein respecting the acquisition of any such rights as aforesaid which he has reasons to believe to have taken place, and of which a report should have been made to him under one or other of those subsections and has not been so made.
(4) No Revenue Court shall entertain a suit or application by the person so succeeding or otherwise obtaining possession until such person has made the report required by this section.
(5) A Revenue Officer shall from time to time inquire into the correctness of all entries in the register of mutations and into all such acquisitions as aforesaid coming to his knowledge of which under the foregoing sub-sections, report should have been made to the patwari 4[XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX] and entry made in that register and shall in each each case make such order as he thinks fit with respect to the entry in the 5[periodical] record of the right acquired.
(6) Such an entry shall be made by the insertion in that record of a description of the right acquired and by the omission from that record of any entry in any record previously prepared which by reason of the acquisition has ceased to be correct.
6[(7) The Revenue Officer shall afford an opportunity of being heard to all the interested parties and also all the co-sharers in a joint holding in a mutation proceedings. After proper identification of the parties he shall get affixed signatures of 7[all the parties present]. If any party is illiterate, then the the Revenue Officer shall get the thumb impression of such party affixed on the foil (Parat sarkar) of the mutation.]
1. The words “or the Revenue Officer concerned” inserted vide H.P. Act No. 41 of 2011 and omitted vide H.P. Act No. 47 of 2013.
2. The words “or the Revenue Officer concerned” inserted vide H.P. Act No. 41 No. 41 of 2011 and omitted vide H.P. Act No. 47 of 2013.
3. The words “or the Revenue Officer , as the case may be,” inserted vide H.P.
Act No. 41 of 2011 and omitted vide H.P. Act No. 47 of 2013.
4. The words “or the Revenue Officer” inserted vide H.P. Act No. 41 of 2011 and omitted vide H.P. Act No. 47 of 2013..
5. Substituted for the word “annual” vide H.P. Act No. 21 of 1976.
6. Sub-section (7) inserted vide H.P. Act No. 15 of 2000.
7. Substituted for the words “all the parties” vide H.P. Act No. 3 of 2001.
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