Powers granted to Collector

[(1)] The Collector is empowered, subject to the general control of [the Provincial Government]—

1. (a) to register the names of individual watandars as holders of the office, or to register it as held by the whole body of watandars;
2. (b) to determine, when individual names are so registered, the rights, duties and responsibilities among themselves of the persons so registered, and the mode in which they shall be selected to perform the duties, whether by selection by the Collector or by defined rotation, or by election by the watandars or otherwise, as may be expedient;
3. (c) to require, in cases where the registration is made in the name of the whole body of watandars, that they appoint so many fit persons as may be necessary to perform the duties which the Collector may assign to them severally and jointly; such appointment to be made within a reasonable time to be previously fixed and notified to them by the Collector. In default of such appointment, the Collector may himself appoint;
4. (d) to provide for and enforce the joint responsibility of the whole body for the neglect of duty or misconduct of any of their number of their representatives and in cases where the crime of cattle poisoning is prevalent, with the sanction of [the Provincial Government] to attach, during the pleasure of [the Provincial Government], the watans of the persons whom he may have reason to believe to have been guilty of, or to have connived at, the commission of the crime; [(e) to pass orders in regard to the dismissal of persons officiating;] [(f) to permit the watandar whose duty it is to officiate, to appoint a deputy for performing the duties of his office.]

1. (2) The Collector, when he is satisfied that a person who produces a decree or order of a competent court is entitled to have his name entered in the register as nearest heir of a deceased watandar in preference to the name of a person already registered in the said register as such heir, provided that the said order or decree is produced within six years of the date of the entry in the said register sought to be amended, shall amend the said entry in the said register accordingly.
2. (3) The Collector is empowered to delegate to the Mamlatdar or Mahalkari the powers exercisable by him under clause
   • (a) of sub-section (1).
3. (4) The Mamlatdar and the Mahalkari are empowered to pass orders in regard to the appointment, remuneration, period of service, suspension and fining of persons officiating, the grant of leave of absence and other matters of discipline not expressly provided for by this or any other law for the time being in force.]