Section 27: Inherent powers 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.

In addition to the powers specified in Section 25 & 26 -

¹[(a) a Commissioner shall, on being conferred powers under clause (g) of S. 26, have all the powers of a Land Records Officer and the officers subordinate to the Land Records Officers];

(aa) a [Revenue Appellate Authority shall have all the powers of a Collector, a Sub Divisional Officer, an Assistant Collector, and a Tehsildar;

(b) a Collector shall have all the powers of a Sub Divisional Officer, an Assistant Collector and a Tehsildar;

(d) an Assistant Collector shall have all he powers of a Tehsildar and a Naib-Tehsildar;

(e) a Tehsildar shall have all the powers of a Naib-Tehsildar;

(f) a Land Records Officer or a Settlement Officer shall have all the powers of a Tehsildar or a Naib-Tehsildar or an officer appointed under Chapter VII or Chapter VIII.

Footnotes in the official text

1.Clause (a) renumbered as (aa) and new clause (a) inserted by the Raj. Land Revenue (Amend.) Act, 1987, Pub. in Raj. Gaz. Exty. Part 4(A) dated 9-4-1987, w.e.f. 31-1-1987.

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