Chapter XI - Special jurisdiction with respect to land

Power to invest officers’ making records-of-rights or general reassessment with powers of Civil Courts. (1) The State Government may, by order published in the Official Gazette, invest any Revenue Officer making or specially revising records-of-rights in any local area in pursuance of a notification under section 33 or making a general re-assessment of land revenue in any local area in pursuance of a notification under section 52 or any Revenue Officer to whose control that officer is subject, with all or any of the powers of any Court constituted under the Himachal Pradesh Courts Order for the purpose of trying all or any specified classes of suits or appeals relating to land arising in the local area. (2) The State Government may cancel an order under sub-section (1) wholly or in part. (3) While an order or any part of an order under that sub-section continues in force, the powers conferred thereby shall be exercised by the officers invested therewith and not otherwise. (4) Any cases pending before that officer under the order or subsisting part of the order at the time of cancellation thereof may be disposed of by him as if the order or that part of it continued in force, unless the State Government directs, as it is hereby empowered to do, that those cases shall be transferred for disposal to the courts by which they would have been disposed of if the order had not been published.

Control over such officers and appeals from and revision of their decree and orders. (1) The State Government may by notification direct that the provisions of this Act with respect to the superintendence and control over Revenue Officers shall, subject to any modification of those provisions which the State Government thinks fit, apply to any Revenue Officer, except the Financial Commissioner, who has been invested with powers of Civil Court of any of the classes specified in the Himachal Pradesh Courts Order and that appeal shall lie from his decrees and orders to, and his decrees and orders be subject to revision by the Revenue Officer invested under the last foregoing section with the powers of a Court which would be competent under the Himachal Pradesh Courts Order to hear appeals from or revise such decrees and orders if they had been made by a Court with the powers of which the Revenue Officer who made them has been invested. (2) In the absence of any such notification, a Revenue Officer invested under sub-section (1) of section 148 with the powers of any such Civil Court as foresaid shall, with respect to the exercise of those powers, be deemed to be such a Civil Court for the Himachal Pradesh Courts Order.