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Section 155: Power to make rules.

The Punjab Land-Revenue Act, 1887Central Act · Act 17 of 1887

(1) The Financial Commissioner may, in addition to other rules which may be made by him under this Act, make rules consistent with this Act, and any other enactment for the time being in force—

(a) fixing the number and amount of the installments, and the times and places and the manner, by, at and in which any sum other than rent or land-revenue which is payable under this Act or of which a record has been made there under is to be paid;

(b) fixing the dates on which profits are to be divisible by headman or other persons by whom they are realized on behalf of co-sharers;

(c) prescribing the fees to be charged for the service and execution of processes issued by Revenue-officers and Revenue Courts, the mode in which those fees are to be collected, the number of persons to be employed in the service and execution of those processes, and the remuneration and duties of those persons;

(d) regulating the procedure in the cases where persons are entitled to inspect records of Revenueofficers, or records or papers in the custody of village-officer, or to obtain copies of the same, and prescribing the fees payable for searches and copies;

(e) prescribing forms for such books, entries, statistics and accounts as the Financial Commissioner thinks necessary to be kept, made or compiled in revenue-offices or submitted to any authority;

(f) declaring what shall be the language of any of those offices, and determining in what cases persons practising in those offices shall be permitted to address the presiding officers thereof in English; and

(g) generally for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

(2) Until rules are made under clauses (a) and (b) of sub-section (1) the sums therein referred to shall be payable by the installments, at the times and places, and in the manner by, at and in which they are now payable.

(3) Rules made by the Financial Commissioner under this or any other section of this Act shall not take effect until they have been sanctioned by the Local Government, and rules under clause (c) of sub-section (1) shall not take effect until they have also been confirmed by the Governor General in Council.

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ActThe Punjab Land-Revenue Act, 1887
Section155
Marginal notePower to make rules.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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