63: Applications and proceedings cognizable by Revenue Officers

The following applications and proceedings shall be disposed of by the Revenue Officers as such, and no Court shall take cognizance of any dispute or matter with respect to which any such application or proceeding might be made or had; FIRST GROUP (a) Applications under sub section (1) of section 35 for the ejectment of a tenant; (b) applications under section 44 or 45 for the fixing of the value of a right of occupancy; (c) applications under section 44 or 45 by landlords for possession of land, the right of occupancy in which has become extinct; (d) proceedings under Chapter VI with respect to the award of compensation for improvements or disturbance; SECOND GROUP (e) applications under sub section (1) of section 34 for the ejectment of a tenant; (f) applications for the determination under section 37 of the rent payable for land occupied by crops uncut or ungathered at the time of an order being made for the ejectment of a tenant; THIRD GROUP (g) applications under section 24 by tenants to deposit rent; (h) applications under section 28 for service of notice of relinquishment; (i) applications under section 44 or 47 for service of notice of intended transfer or of intended foreclosure or other enforcement of lien. (2) Except as otherwise provided by this Ordinance or any rule made by the Board of Revenue in this behalf: ― (a) a Collector or an Assistant Collector of the first grade may dispose of any of the applications and proceedings mentioned in sub section (1). (b) An Assistant Collector of the second grade, not being a Naib Tehsildar, may dispose of any of the applications mentioned in the second and third groups of that sub-section, and (c) A Naib Tehsildar, when invested with the powers of an Assistant Collector of the Second grade, may dispose of any of the applications mentioned in the third group of that sub section.

Effective date: 1978-12-27

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