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Section 256: Recovery of miscellaneous revenue and other moneys

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 following moneys may be recovered under this Act in the same manner as an arrear ofrevenue -

1[(a) all sums of money declared by this Act or by any law for the time being in force, other than the Rajasthan Public Demdands Recovery Act, 1962 (Rajasthan Act 5 of 1952)].

(i) to be recoverable as an arrear of revenue and revenue or rent, or

(ii) to be a demand or public demand or to be recoverable or realisable as a demand or a public demand or as an arrear of a demand or a public demand;

(b) all sums of money payable to the State Govemment or to a department or an officer of the State Govemment or to local author Hy on account of rates, duties, taxes, charges or other dues under any law or rule having the force of law, notwithstanding that such law or rule does not declare the same to be recoverable or realisable as an arrear of revenue or land revenue or rent or to be a demand or a public demand or to be recoverable as an arrear of a demand or a public demand;

(c) all sums of money payable to the State Govemment or to a department or an officer of the State Govemment or to a local authority -

(i) by way of fees, fines, penalties, compensation of costs imposed or awarded by any authority, not being a civs`I or crs`minalcoust, under this Act or under any other law for the time being in force, or

(ii) on account of pasturage, forests rights, fisheries mills, natural products of land, water-rates, irrigation charge, maintenance and management of irrigation works and the like;

(d) all rents, premia, ceases, rates, fees and royalties due to the State Govemment on account of the use or occupation of land or water or other immovable property, whether belonging to the State Govemment or not, or on account of any products thereof or proceeds therefrom or on any other account;

(e) all sums of money due to the State Govemment under any grant, lease or contract which provides that they shall be recoverable as arrears of revenue or land revenue.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by Sc. 2(ii)-Ibid.

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