Manner of effecting ryotwari settlement

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(1) The Settlement Officer shall, as soon as may be, after the publication of this Act, effect ryotwari settlement of every free-hold land in accordance with a settlement notification framed and published by the Government for the purpose.
(2) The said notification shall embody the principles adopted in making ryotwari settlements in ryotwari areas and shall adopt—
- (a) the rates of assessment set out in the settlement or re-settlement notification in force on the date of the publication of this Act in the district in which the free-hold land is situated; or
- (b) if more than one such notification is in force in that district, the rates set out in one of those notifications which the Government consider to be the most appropriate to the case.
(3) All rates of assessment imposed at a ryotwari settlement under this section shall be liable to revision from time to time as laid down in the settlement or re-settlement notification referred to in sub-sections
(1) and (2).
(4) Any settlement notification published under sub-section
(1) shall have effect in supersession of any settlement or re-settlement notification, if any, already in force in respect of the free-hold land concerned.
(5) Neither such settlement notification nor any order passed in pursuance thereof shall be liable to be questioned in any court of law.

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