Power to create, alter or abolish districts, sub-divisions, etc

Revenue Divisions, Revenue Officers and their appointment

Power to create, alter or abolish districts, sub-divisions, etc.—

1. (1) The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute the territories, to which this Code extends, into one or more districts, and may similarly divide any district into sub-divisions, sub-divisions into talukas and talukas into villages and may alter the limits of; or abolish, any district, sub-division or taluka.
2. (2) The Collector may by an order published in the prescribed manner arrange the villages in a taluka which shall constitute a saza; and the sazas in a taluka which shall constitute a circle, and may alter the limits of, or abolish, any saza or circle, so constituted.
3. (3) The districts, sub-divisions, talukas, circles and sazas existing at the commencement of this code shall continue respectively to be the districts, sub-divisions, talukas, circles and sazas under this code unless otherwise provided under sub-section
4. (1) or (2).