(1) This Act may be called the United Provinces Land Revenue Act, 1901.
(2) It extends to the whole of Uttar Pradesh except the areas specified in the First Schedule:
Provided that the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette extend the whole or any part of this Act to all or any of the areas so excepted subject to exceptions or modifications as it thinks fit:
Provided also that no provision of this Act which is inconsistent with the provisions of the Pargana of Kaswar Raja Act, 1915, shall apply to the Pargana of Kaswar Raja in the district of Banaras.
2 {Explanation: for the purpose of this section urban areas, declared as such under section 3 of the Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1959 (as applicable in the State of Uttarakhand) and all transitional area, smaller urban area, declared as such under section 3 of the Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916 (as applicable in the State of Uttarakhand).}
(3) It shall come into force on the first day of January, 1902.
Repeal 2. (1) The enactments specified in the Second Schedule are repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column thereof.
(2) When this act or any portion thereof is extended with or without exception or modification to any of areas excepted in the First Schedule, so much of any Act or Regulation in force therein as is inconsistent with this Act, or the portion thereof as extended, as the case may be, shall be thereby repealed.
(3) The repeal of any enactment of this Act shall not legalize any practice which immediately before the passing of such enactment was illegal, and shall not revive any right, privilege, matter or thing not in force or existing at the commencement of this Act.
Saving 3. (1) All rules, appointments, assessments partitions, and transfers made, notifications, proclamations, and orders issued, authorities and powers conferred, farms granted, records-of-rights and other records framed, rights acquired and liabilities incurred, rents fixed, places and times appointed, and other things done under any of the enactments hereby repealed shall, so far as may be, be deemed to have been respectively made, issued, conferred, granted, framed, acquired, incurred, fixed, appointed and done under this Ac.
(2) Any enactment or document referring to any enactment hereby repealed, shall be construed to refer to this Act, or to the corresponding portion thereof.
1. Published by section 40 of Indian Council Act, 1861 on dated 21 December, 1901.
2. Ins. by section 2 of UK Act no 05 of 2023.
26 [The Uttar Pradesh Land Revenue Act, 1901] [Section 4] Definitions 4. In this Act, unless there be something repugnant in the subject or context- [(1) ‘Ex-proprietary tenant’, ‘grant at a favourable rate of rent’, ‘grove’, ‘grove-holder’, ‘occupancy tenant’, ‘rent’, ‘rent-free grant’, ‘sir’ and ‘tenant’ have the meanings assigned to them in the United Provinces Tenancy Act, 1939, subject to the following modifications:
(a) in the definition of ‘Improvement’ in sub-section (8) of Section 3 of the United Provinces Tenancy Act, 1939, the words ‘with reference to a tenant’s holding’ shall be deemed to have been omitted;
(b) in the definition of ‘rent’ in sub-section (18) of Section 3, in the United Provinces Tenancy Act, 1939, the words “and in Chapter VII except when the contrary intention appears, include sayar” shall be deemed to have been omitted; and
(c) The term ‘tenant’ as defined in sub-section (23) of section 3 of the United Provinces Tenancy Act, 1939, shall be deemed not to include a ‘thekadar’.]
(2) “ Incumbrance” means a charge upon or claim against land arising out of private contract.
(3) “Lambardar” means a co-sharer of a mahal appointed under this Act to represent all or any of the co-sharers in that mahal;
(4) “Mahal” means-
(a) any local area held under a separate engagement for the payment of the land revenue:
Provided that-
(i) if such area consists of a Single village or portion of a village, a separate record-of-rights has been framed for such village or portion;
(ii) if such area consists of two or more villages or portions of villages, a separate record-of-rights has been framed either for the entire area, or for each of the villages or portions of villages included therein;
(b) any revenue-free area for which a separate record-of rights has been framed;
(c) for such purposes as the State Government may determine, any grant of land made heretofore or hereafter under the Waste Land Rules;
and
(d) any other local area which the State Government may be general or special order declare to be a mahal;
(5) “Minor” means a person who, under Section 3 of the Indian Majority Act, 1875, has not attained his majority;
(6) [***] 1
1. Omitted by section 7 of U.P. Act No. 11 of 1941.
27 [The Uttar Pradesh Land Revenue Act, 1901] [Section 5-6]
(7) “revenue” means land revenue;
(8) “ Revenue Court” means all or any of the following authorities (that is to say), the Board and all members thereof, Commissioners, Additional Commissioners, Collectors, Additional Collectors, Assistant Collectors, Settlement Officers, Assistant Settlement Officers, Record Officers, and Assistant Record Officers and Tahsildars;
(9) “Revenue Officers” means any officer employed under this Act in maintaining revenue records, or in the business of the land revenue;
(10) “Revenue-free”, when applied-to land, means land whereof the revenue has either wholly or in part been released, compounded for, redeemed, or assigned;
(11) “Settlement” means settlement of the land revenue;
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(13) “Sayar” means receipts arising from or on account of natural products, excluding stones and other minerals; and
(14) “Taluka” or “ Taluqdari Mahal” means an estate in Oudh to which the provisions of the Oudh Estates Act 1 of 1869, apply; and “ Taluqdar” means the proprietor of such an estate;
(15) “ Under-proprietor means in Oudh a person possessing a heritable and transferable right in land who is, or but for a judicial decision or contract would be, liable to pay rent therefore;
(16) “Sub-proprietor” in Agra means a person having an inferior but heritable and transferable proprietary interest in land, with whom a sub-settlement has been made under the provisions of this Act or of any other law for the time being in force;
(17) Any reference to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended from time to time in its application to Uttar Pradesh, and, in the case of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, as reference to that Code, subject also to any annulments, alterations and additions to the rules contained in the First Schedule thereto made from time to time under Section 122 thereof by the High Court.
CHAPTER II APPOINTMENTS AND JURISDICTION [Controlling powers of State Government and Board respectively
5. Subject to the superintendence, direction and control of the State Government, the Board shall be the chief controlling authority in the matters provided under the Act, excepting matters relating to disposal of cases, [appeals] 3 and revisions.]
2 Appointment of members of the Board
6. The State Government shall Appoint the members of the Board.
1. Omitted by section 7 of U.P. Act No. 11 of 1941.
2. Subs. by section 33 of U.P. Act No. 30 of 1975.
3. Subs by section 2 of UP Act no 20 of 1997.
28 [The Uttar Pradesh Land Revenue Act, 1901] [Section 7-12] Power to distributed business.