Exclusive Jurisdiction of the Chief Commissioner, Greater Bengaluru Authority, Commissioners of the City Corporations and the Authorized Officers and bar of jurisdiction of Civil Courts

Bengaluru Authority, Commissioners of the City Corporations and the Authorized Officers and bar of jurisdiction of Civil Courts.- (1) Save as otherwise provided in the Act, or any other law for the time being in force, a Chief Commissioner Greater Bengaluru Authority or the Commissioners of the City Corporations or the Authorized Officers shall have jurisdiction to determine, decide or dispose of, any matter which they are, by or under the Act, empowered to determine, decide or dispose of and no Civil Court shall exercise jurisdiction as to any of such matters.

1. (2) Subject to the exceptions hereinafter specified, no Civil Court shall exercise jurisdiction as to any of the following matters, namely:-
   • (a) claims against the Government relating to any property appertaining to any office or for any service whatsoever;
   • (b) objections,—
     • (i) to the amount or incidence of rate or assessment or demand or collection or procedures thereof for any tax or cess or fee or interest and penalties there on provided for under the Act, or
     • (ii) to the mode of assessment or levy or recovery, or to the principle on which such assessment or levy is fixed, or
     • (iii) to the validity or effect of the notification of survey and actions taken thereunder;
   • (c) claims connected with or arising out of any proceedings for the realisation of property tax or fees or cess or other demands recoverable as per procedure prescribed for recovery of the arrears of property tax under the Act, or any other law for the time being in force;
   • (d) claims to set aside, on account of irregularity, mistake, or any other ground, sales for recovery of arrears of property tax or other dues prescribed to be recovered as per procedure for recovery of arrears of property tax;
   • (e) claims against the Greater Bengaluru Authority or the City Corporations, –
     • (i) to be entered in the survey or municipal or authority records or any land or property tax record as liable for the property tax or as superior holder, inferior holder, occupant, mortgagee, landlord or tenant;
     • (ii) to have any entry made in any record of a property tax or survey, or
     • (iii) to have any such entry either omitted or amended;
   • (f) the distribution of property tax or allotment of property tax on partition of any land or property or building under the Act or any other law for the time being in force;
   • (g) claims against the Greater Bengaluru Authority or the City Corporations, –
     • (i) to hold land or property wholly or partly free from payment of property tax; or
     • (ii) to receive payments charged on or payable out of the property tax; or
     • (iii) to set aside any cess or rate payable under the provisions of any law for the time being in force; or
     • (iv) respecting the occupation of waste or vacant land belonging to Authority or the City Corporations;
   • (h) claims regarding boundaries fixed under the Act or under any other law for the time being in force, or to set aside any order passed by a competent officer under any such law with regard to boundary marks or survey marks.