(1) The District Collector may, either of his own motion or on the application of any person aggrieved, call for and examine the record of any proceeding under this Act in which an order has been passed by the Revenue Divisional Officer or by any officer appointed or authorised under sub-section (2) of section 9, for the purpose of satisfying himself as to the correctness, legality, propriety or regularity of such order, and may pass such order thereon as he thinks fit:
Provided that the District Collector shall not call for and examine the record of any proceeding in which an order has been passed by any officer appointed or authorised under sub-section (2) of section 9, if an appeal against that order is pending or if the time for preferring an appeal against such order has not expired.
(2) The District Collector shall not of his own motion revise any order under subsection (1) if that order has been made more than one year previously.
(3) An application under sub-section (1) by an aggrieved person shall be made within a period of one year from the date on which the order in question was communicated to him:
Provided that the District Collector may admit an application made after the expiry of the said period of one year, if he is satisfied that the applicant had sufficient cause for not making the application within that period.
(4) Every application for revision under sub-section (1) shall be accompanied by a fee of two rupees.
1 Inserted by Act 22 of 1972.
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(5) An order prejudicial to a person shall not be passed under sub-section (1) unless that person has been given a reasonable opportunity of showing cause against such order.
Explanation.—An order declining to interfere shall, for the purposes of this subsection, be deemed to be an order prejudicial to a person.]