State Act: Rajasthan
The Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 1956
Act Rajasthan Act No. 15 of 1956 · 302 sections
Text as published by India Code for the Government of Rajasthan (the "updated" English file), with amendments up to Rajasthan Act No. 9 of 2022.
A Rajasthan Land Revenue (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2025 (Bill No. 7 of 2025) inserts section 100-A (Government land placed at the disposal of RIICO for industrial areas) and clause (xvii-a) in section 261(2). Its Act number and assent could not be confirmed from an official source; these changes are not shown in this text.
This copy does not print the Chapter headings of the Act and contains many typing errors (for example "swim partition" and "audible estate" in section 186); the text is reproduced as printed.
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Title, date and preamble
An Act consolidate and amend the law relating to land ;the appointment,powers and duties of Revenue Courts, Revenue officers, and village servants;the preparation and maintenance of maps and land records; the settlement of revenue and rent; the partition of estates; the collection of revenue and matters incidental thereto.
Be it enacted by the Rajasthan State Legislature in the seventh year of republic of India, as follows-
Contents
- 1.Short title, extent and commencement
- 2.Enactments not affected by Act
- 3.Interpretation
- 4.Establishment and Composition of Board
- 5.Tenure of Members
- 6.Place of Sitting
- 7.Ministerial Officers
- 8.Powers of the Board
- 9.General Superintendence of Subordinate Revenue Courts
- 10.Jurisdiction of Board how exercised
- 11.Power to refer to a Bench
- 12.Power to refer question to High Court
- 13.Decision in case of difference of opinion
- 14.Registers etc. to be kept
- 15.Territorial Divisions
- 16.Power to create, abolish or alter divisions etc
- 17.Commissioners and Additional Commissioners
- 18.Settlement Commissioner and Additional Settlement Commissioner
- 19.Director and Additional Directors of Land Records
- 20.Appoint of other Officers
- 20-A.Revenue Appellate Authority
- 21.Appointment ex-officio
- 22.Notification of appointment
- 23.Controlling Power
- 24.Subordination of Revenue Courts and Officers
- 25.Powers and duties of Courts and Officers
- 26.Additional powers of Courts and Officers
- 27.Inherent powers of Courts and officers
- 28.Officers temporarily succeeding to a permanent vacancies
- 29.Temporary-absence of officers
- 30.Formation and alteration of Patwaris Circles
- 31.Appointment of Patwaris
- 32.Formation and alteration of Land Records Inspection circles
- 33.Appointment of Girdawar Qanungos or Land Records Inspectors
- 34.Sadar Qanungos
- 35.Qualifications etc. of Patwaris and Qanungos
- 36.Obligation to furnish information necessary for the preparation of records
- 37.[Omitted]
- 38.[Omitted]
- 39.[Omitted]
- 40.[Omitted]
- 40-A.Termination of the services of Lambardars
- 41.[Omitted]
- 42.[Omitted]
- 43.[Omitted]
- 44.[Omitted]
- 45.[Omitted]
- 46.[Omitted]
- 47.[Omitted]
- 48.[Omitted]
- 49.[Omitted]
- 50.[Omitted]
- 51.Place for holding court or making inquiries
- 52.Power to enter upon and survey land
- 53.Power of Government, Board etc. to transfer cases
- 54.Power of transfer cases to and from subordinates
- 55.Consolidation of cases
- 56.Appearances, applications etc. by whom made
- 56.A.Presentation of applications, appeals, etc
- 57.Power of Revenue Courts on officers to require attendance of persons and production of document and to receive evidence
- 58.Summons to be in writing signed and sealed
- 59.Serving of summons
- 60.Mode of Serving Notice
- 61.Mode of issuing proclamations
- 62.Notice or proclamation not void for error
- 63.Hearing in absence of party
- 64.Adjournment of hearing
- 65.No appeal form order passed under Section 63
- 66.Power to give and apportion costs
- 67.Correction or error or omission
- 68.Power to refer disputes to arbitration
- 69.Procedure in cases referred to arbitration
- 70.Application to set aside award
- 71.Decision according to award
- 72.Bar to appeal & suit in Civil Court
- 73.Delivery of possession of immovable property
- 74.Appeal to be as followed by this Act
- 75.First Appeals
- 76.Second Appeals
- 77.No appeal in certain cases
- 78.Limitation for appeals
- 79.Copy of [xxx] order objected to, to accompany petition
- 80.Power of Appellate Authority
- 81.Power to stay execution of [xxx] orders of lower court
- 82.Power [xxx] to call for records and proceedings and reference to State Government of Board
- 83.Power of Government to call for records and revise orders
- 84.Power of Board to call for records and revise orders
- 84A.No revision in Certain cases
- 85.Hearing
- 85A.Review by the State Government
- 86.Review by the Board and other Courts
- 87.Application of Act IX of 1908
- 88.All roads etc. and all land which are not the property of others belong to the State
- 89.Right of minerals, mines, quarries and fisheries
- 90.Liability of all land to payment of revenue or rent
- 90-A.Use of agricultural land for non-agricultural purpose
- 90B.[Omitted]
- 91.Unauthorlsed occupation of Land
- 92.Land may be set apart for special purposes
- 93.Regulation of use of Pasturage
- 94.Powers to regulate control and management of forest growth
- 94-A.Roadside trees
- 94-B.Recovery of value of trees etc. unauthorisedly appropriated
- 95.Development of abadi
- 96.Collector to fix rates of premium
- 97.Auction of abadi land
- 98.Land granted for receptacles of household refuse, etc. and for storing fodder
- 99.Right to regulate the construction of a building in a village
- 100.Sale of land in Industrial and Commercial Areas
- 101.Allotment of land for agricultural purposes
- 102.Power of Government to allot land for purposes other than agricultural as well as on special terms
- 102.A.Land which may be entrusted with Local Authorities
- 103.Land and Abadi defined for the purposes of Chapter VI
- 104.Cases in which power of Revenue Officers may beexercised by local Authorities
- 105.Rights of tenants under Section 31, Rajasthan Act 3 of 1955, not affcted
- 106.Survey or re-survey
- 107.Record Operations
- 108.Record Officers
- 109.Mode of conducting operations
- 110.Assistance in survey of boundaries
- 111.Decision of disputes as to boundaries
- 112.Preparation of map and field book
- 113.Preparation of record of rights
- 114.Contents of record of rights
- 115.Inviting claims to lands appearing to have no owner
- 116.Procedure when unclaimed land is used for common purposes
- 117.Procedure when limited right over such land is established
- 118.Determination and record of khudkasht land
- 119.Determinatio of the abadi of a village
- 120.Register of villages
- 121.Particulars to be stated in khatauni
- 122.Attestation of entries [xxx]
- 123.[Omitted]
- 124.Procedure when rent or revenue payable is disputed
- 125.[Omitted]
- 126.Existing records to be acted upon
- 127.Proceedings pending upon close of survey & record operations
- 128.Boundary disputes
- 129.Obligation of holders as to boundary marks
- 130.Penalty for injury to, or removal of marks
- 131.Maintenance of Map and Field Book
- 132.Annual Registers
- 133.Report of succession and transfer of possession
- 134.Fine for neglect to report
- 135.Procedure on report
- 136.Correction of errors
- 137.Succession to estates
- 138.Inspection of records
- 139.Copies of entries
- 140.Presumption as to entires
- 140.A.Procedure in disputes relating to khudkasht entries
- 141.Decisions to be binding on revenue courts
- 141A.Definitions
- 141-B.Power to order survey
- 141-C.Entry upon land
- 141-D.Notice of survey may be given before hand
- 141-E.Survey may be proceeded with suer service of notice under Section 141-D
- 141-F.Suney map and register
- 141-G.Erection of boundary marks
- 141-H.Maintenance of temporary boundary marks
- 141-I.Disputes as to boundaries
- 141-J.Appeal to the Collector
- 141-K.Power to refer to arbitration
- 141-L.Documents connected with survey to be sent to officer or authority in charge of sunny
- 141-M.Maintenance of maps registers
- 141-N.Survey fees
- 141-O.Cost of Survey
- 141-P.Penalty for failure to comply with requisition in notice
- 141-Q.[Omitted]
- 141-R.Rules
- 141-S.Proceedings not to be affected by informality
- 141-T.Presumption as to maps and entries in registers
- 142.Settlement or re-settlement
- 143.Probable results of resettlement
- 144.Consideration which shall determine whether re settlement shall be made
- 145.Settlement Officers
- 146.Transfer of duties of Land Records OHicer to settlement Officer
- 147.Rules
- 148.Economic Survey
- 149.Formation of assessment circles or groups
- 150.Soil Classification
- 151.Evolution of rent-rates
- 152.Basic of rent-rates
- 153.Modifications of rates
- 154.Matters to be determined and recorded
- 155.Publication and submission of proposals
- 156.Sanction of proposals
C-Determlnation of Rents
- 157.Assessment of rents
- 158.Land to be excluded from assessment
- 159.Allowance for improvements
- 160.Existing rent to be taken Into consldemrlon while assessing rents
- 161.Limits of enhancement
- 162.Progressive enhancement
- 163.Additional provision for assessment of Chahi holdings
- 164.Preparation and distribution of parchas
- 165.Interim stoppage of recovery of kind rents
- 166.Hearing of objections and determination of rent
- 167.Rent from what date payable
- 168.Option to tenant to refuse rent determined
- 169.Effect o refusal
- 170.Offer of holding to other persons
- 171.Procedure upon non-refusal
- 172.Rent not liable to variation during currency of settlement
- 173.Preparation of Dastoor Ganwai
- 174.Presumption of settlement entries
- 175.Term of Setlement
- 175-A.commencement of term of sottlement
- 176.Senior terminology of settlement
- 176-A.Interim relief during settlement opemtlons
- 177.Tenure of lend under expired settlement until resettlement
- 177A.Increase in assessment of irrigated land assessed at un-ir-rigated rates
E-Intermediate Revision
- 178.Short term settlement
- 179.Settlement of land added by alluvian and revision of assessment when culturable area reduced by fluvial action
- 180.Power of Government to levy additional urban rates
- 181.Applications and proceedings pending before Settlement Officer when operations are closed
- 182.Corrections of errors and ommissions
- 183.Review of sanctioned rent-rates
- 184.Partition
- 185.Partible estates
- 186.Persons entitled to swim partition
- 187.Application for partition
- 188.To whom application lies
- 189.Partition of an estate falling under several districts
- 190.Consolidation of claims
- 191.Power to stay partition of an estate
- 192.Proclamation of application for partition
- 193.Objection raising question of title
- 194.Stay of partition pending decision of appeal
- 195.Attachment of estate pending completion of partition
- 196.Method of trial
- 197.Determlnation of principies and conditions of valuations
- 198.Preliminary decree for partition
- 199.Partition by whom to be made
- 200.Partition by agreement
- 201.Partition by arbitration
- 202.Court when to make partition itself
- 203.Estimate and levy of partition costs
- 204.Appointment of amins etc., and issue of warrant
- 205.Manner of executing warrant
- 206.Issue of proclamation
- 207.Consideration of proposals and determination of claims and objections
- 208.Division of tenants's holding
- 209.Division of khudkasht
- 210.Allotment of lands held in common
- 211.Buildings, gardens etc. of one co sharer on land allotted to another
- 212.Tanks, wells, water courses and embankments
- 213.Places of worship and cremation or burial grounds
- 214.Incompactness a reason for disallowing partition
- 215.Distribution of revenue on partition
- 216.Final order for partition
- 217.Instrument of partition
- 218.Delivery of possession of property allotted on partition
- 219.Division of complex estates
- 220.Fraudulent or erroneous distribution of revenue
- 221.Under-assessed estates to refund to over-assessed estates
- 222.Consolidation of estates forming part of the same village
- 223.Chapter not to apply to division between Govemment and estate holder
- 224.Revenue, a first charge on land and its produce
- 225.Responsibility for revenue
- 226.Rules as to payment of arrears and defaulters
- 227.Certified account to be evidence as to arrears
- 228.Processes for recovery of arrears
- 229.Writ of demand and citation to appear
- 229 A.Power to grant Instalments
- 230.Attachment and sale of movable property
- 231.Attachment of the Land
- 232.Powers and obligations of manager
- 233.Proclamation of attachment
- 234.Transfer of defaulter’s share
- 235.Sale of defaulter’s specific area, patti or estate
- 236.Land to be sold free of encumbrances
- 237.Powers to proceed against Interest of defaulter In property other than that In respect of which default is made
- 238.Proclamation of sale
- 239.Sale when and by whom to be made
- 240.Prohibition to bid for an acquire the property sold
- 241.When sale may be stayed
- 242.Deposit by purchaser, re-sale in default of deposit
- 243.Purchase money when to be paid
- 244.Liability of purchaser for loss by re-sale
- 245.Proclamation before re-sale
- 246.Application to set aside sale on deposit of arrear
- 247.Application to set aside the sale for irregularity etc
- 248.Order confirming or setting aside sale
- 249.Bar of claims founded on irregularitty of mistake
- 250.Refund of purchase-money when sale set aside
- 251.Purchaser to be put in possession
- 252.Application of proceeds of sale
- 253.Liability of purchaser for revenur or rent
- 254.Pre-emption by co-sharers
- 255.[Omitted]
- 256.Recovery of miscellaneous revenue and other moneys
- 257.Recovery of moneys from sureties
- 257-A.Application for Recovery of Moneys referred to in Sections 256 and 257
- 257-B.Payment under protest and further remedy
- 257C.Person from whom sum is due defined
- 257D.Provisions of Chapter to apply to sums due at commencement of Act
- 258.Recovery of costs etc
- 259.Jurisdiction of civil courts excluded
- 260.Delegation
- 261.Power to make rules
- 262.Patwaris, etc. to be public servants
- 263.Repeal and Savings
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