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Section 16: Power to create, abolish or alter divisions etc

The Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 1956

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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.

The State Government may be notification in the 1[official Gazette]-

(a) create new or abolish existing 2[divisions] districts, sub-divisions, tehsils and 3[sub- tehsils, villages], and

(b) alter the limits of any of them.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. By Sec. 4 of Raj. Act No. 2 of 1958, Pub. in Raj. Rajpatra – Part IV-A Ex.-ord., dt. 13-1-1958.
  2. 2.Ins. by Act No. 10 of 1987 w.e.f. dt. 31-1-1987, Pub. in Raj. Gaz., Ex-ord. 4 (ka), dt. 9-4-1987, Pages 43-50.
  3. 3.Subs. By Act No. 8 of 1995, pub. in Raj. Gaz., E.O. 4 (ka), dt. 26-4-1995, Page 19.

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