Formation of survey numbers and villages

Subject to rules made under this Code, the Settlement Officer may-(a) take measurements of the land to which the revenue survey extends and construct such number of survey marks thereon as may be necessary; (b) divide such lands into survey numbers and group the survey numbers into villages; and (c) renumber existing survey numbers, reconstitute survey numbers, or form new survey numbers: Provided that except as hereinafter provided, no survey number comprising land used for agricultural purposes shall henceforth be made of less extent than a minimum to be prescribed for the various classes of land: Provided further that the limit prescribed under the aforesaid proviso shall not apply in the case of survey numbers survey numbers existing immediately before the date of the notification under sub-section (1) of section 67.