Friday, October 25, 2013

WEST PAKISTAN LAND REVENUE RULES, 1968 (As amended upto date) (April 2010 ) Part 5




Explanation.-In case of mutation of inheritance, the copy of the gist of the order shall
be sent to the heir(s) of the deceased.
33. Report regarding cause of delay in mutation cases.-In respect of all mutations,
pending over three months, the Revenue Officer shall submit to the Collector, through the
Revenue Assistant or the Sub-Divisional Officer concerned, a report in Form XIX.
34. Roznamcha Waqiati to be maintained by the Patwari.-(l) The Roznamcha
Waqiati (Daily Diary) to be maintained by the Patwari, under clause (a) of sub section (1) of
section 42, shall be in the Form XX.
(2) The pages of Roznamcha shall be stitched in a volume and each page shall bear
the book number and page number in print.
(3) The Patwari shall prefix to every entry, in the Roznamcha a separate serial
number, in large and clear figures. Every entry shall be closed by an asterisk, and no blank
line shall be left between two consecutive entries. Such orders and instructions as relate to
rules of practice, shall be entered in red ink. The date of each day's entries shall be given
according to the official calendar.
(4) In addition to the events to be entered in Roznamcha according to the instructions
which may be issued by the Commissioner from time to time, the following occurrences shall
be entered in the Roznamcha on the day on which they come to the Patwari's notice, and the
manner in which they come to his knowledge.
produce.
(i) Any epidemic disease among human beings or livestock, or any calamity
affecting crops, including crop pests.
(ii)  All alluvion, or diluvion, with approximate areas and details so far as known
at that time.
(iii) Falls of rain and their duration, and whether slight, medium or heavy and the
damage or benefit to the standing crops as a result.
(iv) The dates on which canals or Rajbahas began or ceased to run, and on which
there was any marked change in the supply of canal water.
(v)  Deaths of land-owners, village officers and pensioners.
(vi) The ejectment, absconding, or settling of cultivators or right-holders, and the
relinquishment, change or renewal of any tenure.
(vii) The execution of any decree of Court affecting the land, its rent, or its
(viii) Taccavi advances made by Government and repayments of the same; as also
notes of the progress or completion of works for which taccavi has been
granted.
(ix) Orders of Revenue Officers or Kanungos received by the Patwari or executed
in the circle.
(x)    Attachment proceedings affecting the land, its cultivation, or its produce, or
cattle.
(xi) Any encroachment on or damage to Nazul or Government Property or roads.
(xii) Any suspensions or remissions of revenue, and any alteration of the rate of
cesses.



(xiii) The cultivation of land occupied by groves held free of revenue.
(xiv) The erection, destruction or decay of survey marks or boundary marks and the
alteration of village boundaries.
(xv) The visit of any Government official to the circle.
(xvi) Any fact relating to land or its revenue or rent specially reported to the
Patwari by a person interested therein, with a request that it be entered in his
Roznamcha or which the Patwari may think of importance.
(xvii) Any alteration in the ownership, cultivating possession or rent of land, which
may have been recorded in the crop-inspection register.
(xviii) The receipt of any registration Memos. received in respect of item (xvii).
(xix) Any case of rick-burning, and, when it is suspected that the crime is due to
incendiarism, this should be specified.
(xx)  Any cases of increase of mortgage money, with details of the amount, parties
and village.
(xxi) Distribution of Dhal Bachhes to headmen and bills of assessment to land-
owners.
(5)   The signature or thumb-impression of the headman or member of the Union
Committee, Town Committee or Union Council concerned, shall also be obtained at the time
of making entries, relating to changes in revenue records.
(6)   A copy of the report, recorded by the Patwari, in the Roznamcha under sub
sections (1) to (3) of section 42, shall be exhibited at the Patwari's office for a period of one
month, from the date of its recording and shall be made available to the public for inspection
during office hours, without any fee.
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[34-A. Collection of mutation fee in cases of registered deeds.- (1) Where the
acquisition of right or interest in an estate is by a registered deed, the mutation fee at the rate
fixed under section 46 shall be collected at the time of registration of such deed by the
Registering Officer.
 (2) The Registering Officer collecting the fee under sub-rule (1) shall credit 7/10
 of
the amount into Government Treasury under the head “O. 124 Land Revenue-Other-Mutation
Fee” and the remaining 3/10
th
 of the amount of the fee shall be paid by the Registering
Officer to the Circle Revenue Officer for disbursement to the Patwari making the entries in
the register of mutations.]
35. Production of documents or furnishing of information under section 47.-(1)
When any information is furnished to the Revenue Officer or Patwari, or any document is
produced before him, under the provisions of section 47, the Revenue Officer or the Patwari
concerned, as the case may be, shall give a written acknowledgement thereof, to the person
furnishing the information or producing the document, in Form XXI.
(2) Any document so requisitioned and produced shall be returned in original, after
inspection, to the person who produced it, with an endorsement by the Revenue Officer or the
Patwari, as the case may be, under his signature.
                                             

37 Added by Board of Revenue Punjab’s Notification No. 1180-87/837/LR-II dated 12-05-1987, published in the Gazette of
Punjab, Extraordinary, May 13, 1987.



36. Inspection of Records of Patwaris and grant of certified copies or extracts
therefrom.- (1) The Patwari shall allow any one interested to inspect his records and to take
notes therefrom, in pencil, in his presence, during office hours, on all working days. He shall
give to the applicants certified copies or extracts therefrom and enter in his diary, a note, of
the inspections allowed and copies or extracts given.
(2)   Such copies or extracts shall be given by the Patwari, to the applicants, within
three days from the receipt of the application.

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[(2-A) A person who desires to obtain a certified copy of revenue record in
possession of a Patwari may apply to the Collector of the Sub-Division on all working days
except Sundays giving necessary particulars of the record of which a copy is required. All
such applications will be entered in a register in Form XXI-A. The applicant shall be given a
date to receive the said copy within a week from the receipt of the application:
 Provided that if so required the copy shall be provided on payment of urgent fee
within 24 hours].
(3)   The charges shall be made, as detailed in Schedule in Appendix B.
37. Inspection of maps and land records filed in the Tahsil revenue record room or
consigned to the district/sub-divisional revenue record room.- (1) The Officer Incharge of
the Tahsil, Sub- Divisional or District Revenue record room, shall allow any one interested to
inspect the maps and land records prepared under the Act and the documents prepared under
the West Pakistan Consolidation of Holdings Ordinance, 1960, and to take notes therefrom,
in pencil, in his presence, in the record room, during office hours, on all working days.
(2)  An application for the inspection of maps and land records kept in the Revenue
Record Room, shall be made in writing and shall distinctly specify the record, inspection of
which is desired.
(3) The following charges shall be paid for each hour or part thereof on which the
inspection is made:-

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[(i)   Ordinary  Rs.2
(ii) Urgent   Rs.4]
When the application does not specify the number, date and nature of the record to be
inspected, or if the description given in such application is incorrect and it shall, in
consequence, be necessary to search the record, a fee at
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[Rupees two] shall be payable, for
such search.
Explanation.- (1) For the purposes of this rule, the District Kanungo and Tahsil
Office Kanungo will be the incharge of the Revenue Record Rooms at District and
Tahsil/Sub-Division, respectively. In the absence of these officials, their Assistants or other
officials appointed or deputed by the Collector, shall perform such duties.
(2) A separate application shall be made and separate fee paid, for the inspection of
each record.
(3) The fee shall be paid, by means of court-fee stamp(s), affixed to the original
application, before the record is handed over to the applicant.
                                             

38 Added by Board of Revenue, Punjab’s Notification No. 1180-87/837/LR-II dated 12-05-1987, published in the Gazette of
Punjab, Extraordinary, May 13, 1987.
39 Substituted by Board of Revenue, Punjab’s notification No.3969-73/1492-LR-II, dated 29
the June, 1973, published in the
Gazette of Punjab, Extraordinary, June 29, 1973.
40 Substituted ibid for the words “Rupee one”.

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[37-A. Preparation of produce statements and five-yearly abstracts of yield.-(l)
Any interested person may apply to the Court concerned for the preparation of produce
statements required in connection with the disposal of rent cases and five-yearly abstracts of
yield required in cases relating to the temporary alienation of land in satisfaction of a decree
of a Civil or Revenue Court.
(2) The following fees shall be charged for -
(i)  Produce statement  …  Rs. 2 for first 10 Khasra numbers and 20
    paisa for each additional Khasra
number per    harvest subject to a maximum of
Rs. 20 in     single case.
(ii) Five yearly abstract of yield  … 50 paisa for one Khasra number and 20
paisa for every additional Khasra
number subject to a maximum of Rs. 20
in a single case.
(3) On receiving the application under sub-rule (1) the Court concerned should:-
(a) Collect from the parties concerned the amount of fee prescribed under sub-rule
(2),
(b)  Credit three-fourth of the fee thus realized into the treasury under the receipt
head “VII-Land Revenue-Misc.-Copying fee for the preparation of produce
statement and five-yearly abstracts of yield”,
(c) Credit the rest one-fourth of the fee to the Deposit head “Deposit of fees
received by Government servant for work done for private bodies under "Civil
Deposit", and
(d) Issue the requisition for the preparation of such statement or abstracts, to the
Sardar Kanungo or Tahsildar concerned, who shall thereupon cause such
statement or abstracts to be prepared by the concerned official within ten days
from the receipt of such requisition.
(4) (i) Statements or abstracts relating to Civil Courts at District Headquarters
shall be prepared by the Naib-Sadar Kanungo and those relating to the Courts
of Assistant Commissioner, Tehsildar, Naib-Tehsildar and other Courts at
Sub-Divisional Tehsil or Sub-Tehsil Headquarter shall be prepared by the
Tehsil Office Kanungo.
(ii) For the purpose of this rule, the Naib-Sadar Kanungo and Tehsil Office
Kanungo shall be deemed to include any official appointed or deputed by the
Collector for this purpose.
(5)   At the close of each quarter the Court concerned shall send the deposit receipts to
the Tehsildar or Sadar Kanungo concerned, who will arrange to draw one-fourth of the
amount of fee referred to in clause (c) of sub-rule (3) for payment to the Official concerned
from the expenditure head “7-Land Revenue-Land-Records-District Charges-Other
Allowances and Honoraria-Fee to Kanungos for preparing produce statement and five-yearly
abstracts of yield”.
                                             

41 Added by Board of Revenue, Punjab’s notification No.15455-74/67-LR-II, dated 8
th
 January, 1975, published in the
Gazette of Punjab, Part III, April 29, 1977.
th(6)   The particulars of all such requisitions and the amount of fee chargeable shall be
entered in the register maintained in the Land Records Office of the District or Tehsil, as the
case may be in Form XXIII-A].
PART V-CROP INSPECTION AND KHARABA
38.  Date on which inspection of each harvest to be commenced.- (1) The
Commissioner may fix the date on which the inspection of each harvest shall commence,
according to the circumstances of the area. In the absence of such fixation of dates, the
inspection of each harvest shall commence, as follow:-
Kharif............................................................... 1
 October
Rabi...................................................................1
 March
Extra (Zaid) Rabi............................................. 15
st
st
th
 April
(2)   When for any reason, the ripening of the crop is later than usual, the Collector
may postpone the inspection for a period, not exceeding fifteen days.
39. Crop Inspection Register.-
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[(1)] For each estate, a crop inspection register
(Girdawari) shall be maintained, in Form XXIV.
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[(2) For each estate, a register of changes in cultivations, possession and rent to be
known as the “Register Taghayyurat-e-Kasht” shall also be maintained by the Patwari in
Form XXIV-A in which he will enter such harvest-wise changes as are not disputed and will
incorporate the same in the Register Girdawari after due checking and attestation thereof by
the Field Kanungo and the Circle Revenue Officer].
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[39-A. Fard Raftar Girdawari.- (1) The Schedule of programme for Crop
Inspection (Fard Raftar Girdawari) shall be so arranged that at the time of Kharif and Rabi
Girdawaris, the Patwari should first take up the estate for which the periodical record is to be
prepared.
(2) A copy of the Fard Raftar Girdawari shall be sent by the Patwari in advance to
the Chairman of the respective Union Council who may depute one of the Members of the
Union Council to be present at the time of harvest inspection by the Patwari].
40. Correction of entries in the Crop Inspection Register.- No alteration shall be
made in the Register Girdawari after the Dhal Bachh of respective harvest has been drawn
up, except with the sanction of the Collector. If at the time of preparation of Register
Haqdaran Zamin, an entry in the Register Girdawari is found to be incorrect, it shall
nevertheless be retained unaltered and the correct entry shall be noted in red ink, in the
remarks column and shall be attested by the Kanungo.
41.  Failure of crop to be entered in the Register Girdawari.- (l) When a crop fails to
germinate or dries up, or is destroyed by calamity of season or the yield falls short of the
normal out-turn, a corresponding entry of the failure of crop (Kharaba), shall be made in the
Register Girdawari (Form XXIV), at the time of harvest inspections.
(2)   In areas in which land revenue is assessed in the form of prescribed rates under
clause (b) of sub section (3) of section 56 a statement of Kharaba shall be prepared in Form
XXV.
                                             

42 Renumbered as (1) by Board of Revenue, Punjab’s Notification No. 1180-87/837/LR-II dated 12-05-1987, published in
the Gazette of Punjab, Extraordinary, May 13, 1987.
43 Added by Board of Revenue, Punjab’s Notification No. 1180-87/837/LR-II dated 12-05-1987, published in the Gazette of
Punjab, Extraordinary, May 13, 1987.
44 Added ibid.  

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