Chapter III KANUNGOS, ZAILDARS, INAMDARS AND VILLAGE-oFFICERS.

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28. Rules respecting kanungos, zaildars, inamdars and village-officers.

Statutory text

(1) The Financial Commissioner may make rules to regulate the appointment, duties, emoluments, punishment, suspension and removal of Kanungos, Zaildars, inamdars and village-officers.
(2) Rules under sub-section (1) may direct that the emoluments of a zaildar, inamdar or village-officer shall be such a percentage payable out of the land-revenue as may be prescribed by the rules, and that, where the land-revenue has been released, compounded for or redeemed, the percentage shall be a charge payable by the person who would be liable for the land-revenue if it had not been released compounded for or redeemed.

Chapter III KANUNGOS, ZAILDARS, INAMDARS AND VILLAGE-oFFICERS.

Statutory text

(1) The Local Government may by notification impose on any estates, or on all or any local area, a cess, to be called the village-officers’ cess, at a rate not exceeding one anna for every rupee of the annual value, for remunerating village-officers and for defraying other expenditure directly connected with the supervision of those officers or with the performance of their duties.
(2) “Annual value” in the last foregoing sub-section has the meaning assigned to that expression in the Punjab District Board Act, 1883 (XX of 1883).
(3) The Financial Commissioner may make rule for the collection, control and expenditure of the village-officers’ cess.
(4) All cesses now levied in any local area for the purposes mentioned in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and shall, until the village-officers’ cess is imposed in that local area under that sub-section, be deemed to be lawfully leviable and, for the purposes of this section, to be that cess.

Chapter III KANUNGOS, ZAILDARS, INAMDARS AND VILLAGE-oFFICERS.

Statutory text

(1) The emoluments of a Kanungo, Zaildar, inamdar or village-officers shall not be liable to attachment in execution of a decree or order of any Civil or Revenue Court.
(2) An assignment of or charge on, or an agreement to assign or charge, any such emoluments shall be void unless it is authorized by rules made by the Financial Commissioner in this behalf.

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