Chapter XI SPECIAL JURISDICTION WITH RESPECT TO LAND.

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136. Power to invest officers making records-of-rights or general re-assessments with powers of Civil Courts.

Statutory text

(1) The Local Government may, by order published in the official Gazette, invest any Revenue-officer making or specially revising records-of-rights in any local area in pursuance of a notification under section 32 or making re-assessment of land-revenue in any local area in pursuance of a notification under section 49, or any Revenue-officer to whose control that officer is subject, with all or any of the powers of any Court constituted under the Punjab Courts Act, 1884 (XVIII of 1884), for the purpose of trying all or any specified classes of suits or appeals relating to land arising in the local area.
(2) The Local Government may cancel an order under sub-section (1) wholly or in part.
(3) While an order or any part of an order under that sub-section continues in force, the powers conferred thereby shall be exercised by the officer invested therewith and not otherwise.
(4) Any cases pending before that officer under the order or a subsisting part of the order at the time of cancellation thereof may be disposed of by him as if the order or that part of it continued in force, unless the Local Government directs, as it is hereby empowered to do, that those cases shall be transferred for disposal to the Courts by which they would have been disposed of if the order had not been published.

Chapter XI SPECIAL JURISDICTION WITH RESPECT TO LAND.

Statutory text

(1) The Local Government may by notification direct that the provisions of this Act with respect to the superintendence and control over Revenue-officers shall, subject to any modification of those provisions which the Local Government thinks fit, apply to any Revenue-officer, except the Financial Commissioner, who has been invested with the powers of a Civil Court of any of the classes specified in clauses (a) , (b), (c) and (d) of section 17 of the Punjab Courts Act, 1884 (XVIII of 1884), and that appeals shall lie from his decrees and orders to, and his decrees and orders be subject to revision by, a Revenue-officer invested under the last foregoing section with the powers of a Court which would be competent under the Punjab Courts Act, 1884, to hear appeals from, or revise, such decrees and orders if they had been made by a Court with the powers of which the Revenue-officer who made them has been invested.
(2) In the absence of any such notification, a Revenue-officer invested under the last foregoing section with the powers of any such Civil Court as aforesaid shall, with respect to the exercise of those powers, be deemed to be such a Civil Court for the purpose of the Punjab Courts Act, 1884.

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