Classes of Revenue Officers

(1) There shall be the following classes of Revenue Officers, namely- (a) the Financial Commissioner; (b) the Commissioner; (c) the Collector; (d) the Assistant Collector of first grade; and (e) the Assistant Collector of second grade. (2) The Deputy Commissioner of a district shall be the Collector thereof. (3) The State Government may appoint any Assistant Commissioner, or Tehsildar to be an Assistant Collector of the first or of the second grade, as it thinks fit, and any Naib-tehsildar to be an Assistant Collector of the second grade. (4) Appointment under sub-section (3) shall be by notification and may be of a person specially by name or by virtue of his office or of more persons than one by any description sufficient for their identification. (5) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the jurisdiction of the Financial Commissioner extends to the whole of the Himachal Pradesh and of the Commissioners and of the Collectors and Assistant Collectors to the divisions and districts respectively, in which they are for the time being employed.