72: Procedure of Revenue Officers

(1) The Provincial Government may make rules consistent with this Ordinance for regulating the procedure to be adopted under this Ordinance Revenue Officers under this Ordinance in cases in which a procedure is not prescribed by this Ordinance. (2) The rules may provide, among other matters, for the mode of enforcing orders of ejectment from and delivery of possession of immovable property, and rules providing for those matters may confer on a Revenue Officer all or any of the powers in regard to contempts, resistance and the like which a Civil Court may exercise in the execution of a decree whereby it has adjudged ejectment from, or delivery of possession of, such property. (3) The rules may also provide for the mode of executing orders as to costs, and may adopt to proceedings under this Ordinance all or any of the provisions of the Balochistan Land Revenue Act, 1967 , with respect to arbitration. (4) Subject to the rules under this section, a Revenue Officer may refer any case which he is empowered to dispose of under this Ordinance to another Revenue Officer for investigation and report, and may decide the case upon the report.

Effective date: 1978-12-27

Related sections