Appointment of Deputy or Assistant Collector.

(1) The Government may appoint in each district so many Deputy or Assistant Collectors, as it may deem expedient, and they may be called Additional Deputy or Assistant Collectors or Divisional officers or by any other name, as may be specified in the order of appointment. All the Deputy or Assistant Collectors and all other officers employed in the revenue administration of the district shall be subordinate to the Collector.

(2) Subject to the general orders of the Government a Collector may, for the purpose of revenue administration, place one or more of the taluqas in his district in the charge of any Deputy or Assistant Collector, or may himself retain charge thereof. Any Deputy or Assistant Collector so made in charge of any taluqa shall perform all the duties and exercise all the powers imposed or conferred upon a Deputy or Assistant Collector by virtue of this Act or perform and exercise such of the duties and powers of a Collector as have been imposed or conferred on a Collector under this Act or under any other law for the time being in force and as may be assigned to him by the Collector or by a special or general order of the Government:

Provided that the Collector may, whenever he may deem fit, direct any such Deputy or Assistant Collector not to perform or exercise certain duties or powers, and may reserve the same to himself or assign them to any other subordinate Deputy or Assistant Collector.

(3) To such Deputy or Assistant Collectors as it may not be possible or expedient to place in charge of a taluqa Collector shall, in pursuance of the general or special order of the Government, assign such of his special duties and powers as may, from time to time, appear fit.