93: Power of Board of Revenue to make rules

(1) The Board of Revenue may, in addition to the other rules which may be made by it under this Ordinance, make rules consistent with this Ordinance and any other enactment for the time being in force: ― (a) determining notwithstanding anything in any record-of-rights, the number and amount of the instalments and the time by and at which rent is to be paid; (b) for the guidance of Revenue Officers in determining, for the purposes of this Ordinance, the amount of the land revenue of any land; (c) prescribing for all or any of the territories to which this Ordinance extends, the periods during which, in proceedings held under this Ordinance, a Revenue Officer or Revenue Court is not, except for reasons of arrest to be recorded, to issue any process of arrest against a tenant or against a landowner who cultivates his own land; (d) regulating the procedure in cases where persons are entitled to inspect records of Revenue Officer or Revenue Courts, 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 Board of Revenue thinks necessary to be kept, made or compiled in Revenue Officers or Revenue Courts or submitted to any authority; (f) declaring what shall be the language of any of those offices and Courts, and determining in what cases persons practising in those offices and Courts shall be permitted to address the presiding officers thereof in English; and (g) generally for the guidance of Revenue Officers and other persons in matters connected with the enforcement of this Ordinance. (2) Until rules are made under clause (a) of sub section (1), rent shall be payable in instalments and at the times by which it is now payable. (3) Rules made by the Board of Revenue under this or any other section of this Ordinance shall be made subject to the control of the Provincial Government.

Effective date: 1978-12-27

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