The Kerala Revenue Recovery Act, 1968
The Kerala Revenue Recovery Act, 1968
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This Act provides for the recovery of arrears of public revenue in Kerala, including land revenue and other sums recoverable as if they were land revenue. It creates a charge on land for revenue due, and lets the Collector recover arrears with interest by attaching and selling the defaulter's movable and immovable property. It also sets out the procedure and limits for such attachments.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Amendment of section 69
- 3. Charge and security for public revenue
- 4. Revenue to be paid in time to the Collector or the officer authorised
- 5. Arrears of public revenue due on land how recovered
- 6. Interest on arrears of public revenue due on land
- 7. Amendment of section 49
- 8. Attachment of movable property (other than growing crops and ungathered products) in the possession of defaulter
- 9. Attachment not to be excessive and certain articles not to be attached
- 10. Time of attachment by seizure
- 11. Procedure when defaulter neglects to pay after attachment
- 12. Sale of attached property
- 13. Officer to conduct the sale
- 14. Insertion of new sections 83A, 83B, 83C and 83D
- 15. Payment of the purchase money
- 16. Procedure when the defaulter tenders payment of arrear after attachment but before sale of property
- 17. Attachment and sale or disposal otherwise of growing crops or ungathered products
- 18. Attached cattle or goods not to be used
- 19. Attachment of debt, shares. etc
- 20. Attachment of decree
- 21. Attachment of share in movable property
- 22. Attachment of negotiable instrument
- 23. Attachment of property in custody of court or public officer
- 24. Attachment of partnership property
- 25. Attachment of rents
- 26. Sale of negotiable instruments and shares in corporation
- 27. Order for payment of coin or currency notes
- 28. Restoration of property in cases of fraudulent conveyances
- 29. Claims to property attached and sold
- 30. Restoration of property forcibly or clandestinely taken away
- 31. Power to enter dwelling house, etc
- 32. Removal of property from apartments of women
- 33. Punishment for unlawful entry
- 34. Demand to be served prior to attachment of land
- 35. Procedure when defaulter neglects to pay
- 36. Mode of attachment
- 37. Management of property attached
- 38. Appointment of agent
- 39. Notice of assumption of management
- 40. Duties of agent
- 41. Liability of agent to suit or prosecution
- 42. Surplus to go to the defaulter
- 43. Attachment and assumption of management of business
- 44. Effect of engagements and transfers by the defaulter
- 45. Payment by tenants
- 46. Claim for release of attachment by third parties
- 47. Persons interested in land may obtain release from attachment
- 48. Judgment–creditor of the defaulter may pay arrears
- 49. Procedure for sale of immovable property
- 50. Bidding on behalf of the Government or the institution notified under section 71 of this Act
- 50A. Reconveyance of Bought-in-Land
- 51. Tender of arrears before sale
- 52. Application to set aside sale of immovable property on deposit
- 53. Application to set aside sale on ground of material irregularity, mistake, etc
- 54. Order confirming or setting aside sale
- 55. Refund of deposit or purchase money when sale set aside
- 56. On confirmation purchaser's name to be registered
- 57. Name and title of such purchaser to be published
- 58. Delivery of possession
- 59. Contracts and payments binding on purchaser
- 60. Sale to be free of all encumbrances
- 61. Recovery of arrears due to defaulter on day of sale
- 62. Sale of land for arrears
- 63. Sale may be postponed on tender of security
- 64. Apportionment of assessment when part only of a single property is sold
- 65. Arrest in case of willful and fraudulent non-payment of arrears
- 66. Procedure in case of arrest
- 67. Mode of enforcing payment by sureties
- 68. Application of the Act for the recovery of certain other due to Government
- 69. Procedure for recovery of public revenue due on land when defaulter or surety resides outside the district and for the recovery of dues other than public revenue due on land
- 70. Payment under protest
- 71. Power of Government to declare the Act applicable to any institution
- 72. General bar to jurisdiction of civil courts save where fraud alleged
- 73. Delegation of powers of the Collector
- 74. Service of notice
- 75. Mode of publication of notices, etc
- 76. Process servers to be paid batta
- 77. Interest and charges recoverable as arrears
- 78. Liability for expenses of countermanded sale
- 79. Cognizance of questions relating to rate of public revenue
- 80. Attachment of salaries and debts of defaulters
- 81. Saving of right to sue
- 82. Suits or prosecutions by persons aggrieved by proceedings
- 83. Power of revision of Commissioner of Land Revenue and Government
- 83A. Special power of the Government to issue stay and instalments
- 83B. Power of the Government to issue Moratorium
- 83C. Settlement Scheme for Bought-in-Land
- 83D. Intimation of Settlement Scheme
- 84. Who shall not bid at revenue sales
- 85. Penalty for fraudulent conveyance of property to prevent attachment or for forcibly taking away property attached
- 86. Power to make Rules
- 87. Repeal
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