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1. Land Revenue Act 1967, 7th December, based on Punjab Revenue Act, 1887
2. Punjab Revenue Act 1887, before integration, was applicable to Punjab, N.W.F.P (now KPK) and to Baluchistan and Bahawalpur state with certain modifications, after integration, it was extended to the District Kalat , Kharan, Makran and Lasbela.
3. The Land Revenue Act, 1967, define and prescribe the right and relation between the state and the land-owners.
5. Tenancy Act, defines the relation between landowners and tenants.
6. Revenue courts are bound to follow the rules of C.P.C.
7. Maintenance of Record-of-Rights in cities and town is also a function of Board of Revenue.
8. After Disintegration of One Unit each Province has now its own Board of Revenue.
9. The Board of Revenue is the controlling authority in all matters connected with the administration of land, collection of Land Revenue, preparation of Land Records and other matters relating to thereto.
10. The Board of Revenue is the highest Court of Appeal and Revision in revenue cases in the Province.
11. It is not permissible for the Revenue Courts to go behind the decision of Civil Courts.

Terms and Definitions

Terms defined in the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1967, are following:-

1.Land - The world Land has not been defined in this Act, but under the Punjab Tenancy Act,1887 it means" any land occupied or let for the agricultural purpose or for the purpose subservient to the agricultural or for the pasture, and includes the sites or building and other structure on such land "

2. Agricultural Year -the year commencing on the first day of July, or on such other date as the Board of Revenue, appoint for any specified area.

3. Arrears of Land-Revenue - Land-revenue which remains unpaid after the date on which it becomes payable.

4. Assessment Circle- Group of estates which in the opinion of the Board of Revenue, sufficiently homogeneous to admit of a common set of rates being used as a general guide in calculating the land-revenue to be assessed upon them.

5. Board of Revenue - The Board of Revenue established under the Board of Revenue Act, 1957. (West Pakistan Act XI of 1957)

6.Boundary Mark - Any object or mark, whether natural or artificial, which is set up, employed or specified by any authorized Revenue Officer to designate the boundary of any portion of land.

7. Commencement - the day/date on which this Act or any provision thereof, comes into operation.

8. Defaulter - Person liable for payment of land-revenue, and includes a person who is responsible as surety for payment, do not pay it on the date, they become defaulters.

9. Encumbrance – Burdens or charges upon or claim against land, arising out of a private grant or contract.

10. Estate – Any area for which a separate record-of-rights has been made; or which has been separately assessed to land-revenue; or which the Board of Revenue, declare to be an estate.

11. Holding - A share or portion of an estate held by one land-owner or jointly by two or more land-owners.

12. Irrigated Land - Land irrigated by a canal, tube well, well, lift, spring, tank or by any other artificial means of irrigation

13. Unirrigated Land- land other than irrigated land, and includes land fed by rains, floods, hill torrents, and uncultivable or waste land.

14.Landlord - a person under whom a tenant holds land, and whom the tenant is, or a lessor.

15. Land Owner – a person whom a holding has been is transferred or an estate or holding has been let in farm, but exclude a tenant.

16.Kanungo - supervising Tapedar.

17. Land-Revenue – "Land-revenue assessed or assessable under the Land Revenue Act, or under any other law for the time being in force relating to land-revenue, and includes any rates imposed on account of increase in the value of land due to irrigation”.

18.Tenant - A person who holds land under another person, and is, or but for a special contract would be, liable to pay rent for that land to that other person, and includes the predecessors and successors-in-interest of such person, but does not include a mortgagee of the rights of a land-owner.

Or

A person who takes from Government a lease of unoccupied land for the purpose of subletting it.

19.Tenancy - a parcel of land held by a tenant under one lease or one set of conditions.

20. Legal Practitioner - Any legal practitioner within the meaning of the Legal Practitioners Act, 1879 (Act XVIII of 1879), except a Mukhtar and Revenue Agents.

21. Net Assets – The Profit after all expenses of cultivation (including water rates ) but before payment of Land Revenue and cesses.

22. Patwari - Tapedar and a Special or Additional Tapedar.

23. Pay - to rent, “deliver” and “render”.

24.Prescribed - prescribed by rules made under this Act

25. Rates and Cesses - Primarily payable by land-owners by the authority of Government; village officers’ cess ; and any sum payable on account of village expenses.

26. Rent - Whatever is payable to a land-lord in money or kind by a tenant on account of the use, but shall not include any cess, or other contribution.

27. Revenue Court - Court constituted as such under the law relating to tenancy as in force for the time being.

28. Revenue Officer -Having authority under this Act to discharge the function of a Revenue Officer.

29. Service Centres - The Computerized Service Centre established by the Board of Revenue.

30. Service Centre Official – A Person appointed as the Service Centre Official.

31. Survey Mark - Any mark set up by the Department of Survey of Pakistan.

32 . Survey Number/Khasra Number - A Portion of land of which the area is separately entered under an indicative number in the record-of-rights.

33. Village Officer - Any person appointed under this Act whose duty it is to collect, or to supervise the collection of, the revenue of an estate.