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Section 25: Powers and duties of Courts and Officers

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.

(1) 1 [A Commissioner or a] Collector or a] Collector or a Sub-Divisional Officer or a Tehsildar shall respectively within his division or district or sub-division or tehsil, exercise all the powers and discharge all the duties conferred and imposed on him by or under this Act or the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 (Rajasthan Act 3 of 1955) or any other law for the time being in force.

(2) The Settlement Commissioner shall be incharge of all matters related to settlement throughout the State and shall in respect thereof exercise such powers and discharge such duties as are conferred and imposed on him by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force.

(3) The Director of Land Records shall be incharge of all matters relating to survey and the preparation, revision and maintenance of land records throughtout the State and shall in respect thereof exercise powers and discharge such duties as are conferred and imposed on him by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force.

(4) A Land Records Officer or an officer appointed under Chapter VII shall, within the area for which he is appointed exercise such powers and perform such duties as are conferred and imposed on him by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force.

(5) A Settlement Officer or an officer appointed under Chapter VIII shall, within the area for which he is appointed, exercise such powers and perform such duties as are conferred and imposed on himby or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force.

(6) An 2[Additional Commissioner or an] Additional Settlement Commissioner or an Additional or Assistant Director of Land Records or an Additional Collector or an Additional Tehsildar shall, within the area for which he is appointed, exercise such powers and perform such duties respectively of a 2[Commissioner or] the Settlement Commissioner or the Director of Land Records or a Collector or a Tehsildar in such cases or matters or classes of cases or matters 3[under this Act or under any other law for the time being in force] as the State Government may direct, and every 4[Additional Commissioner or] Additional Settlement Commissioner or Additional or Assistant Director of Land Records or Additional Collector or Additional Tehsildar, while exercising any such power performing any such duty, shall for all purposes be deemed to be the 4[Commissioner or] Settlement Commissioner or Director of Land Records or Collector or Tehsildar, as the case may be, of the area for which he is appointed.

(7) An Assistant Collector or a Naib-Tehsildar shall, within the district or the Tehsil, as the case may be, to which he is appointed, exercise such powers and perform such duties a sare conferred and imposed on him by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force or as may be delegated, to him by a general or special order of the State Government.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Ins. by Act No. 10 of 1987 w.e.f. 31-1-1987, Pub. in Raj. Gaz. EO, Part 4(ka), dt. 9-4-1987, Pages 43-50.
  2. 2.Ins. by Act No. 10 of 1987, Pub. in Raj. Gaz. EO. 4(ka), dt. 9-4-1987 w.e.f. 31-1-1987.
  3. 3.Inserted and shall be deemed always to have been inserted by Part B of the First Schedule to Rajasthan Act No. 2 of 1958, Pub. in Raj. Gaz. Part IV-A, Ex.-Ord., dt. 13-1-1958.
  4. 4.Ins. by Act No. 10 of 1987, Pub. in Raj. Gaz. EO. 4(ka), dt. 9-4-1987 w.e.f. 31-1-1987.

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