State Act: Uttar Pradesh
The Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code, 2006
Act U.P. Act No. 8 of 2012 · 241 sections
Text as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with amendments up to U.P. Act No. 20 of 2026.
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Title, date and preamble
[Passed by the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly on 21 September, 2006 and by the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council on October 10, 2006.
Received the assent of the President on November 29, 2012 and was published in the Uttar Pradesh Gazette, Extraordinary, dated December 12, 2012. ]
AN ACT
to consolidate and amend the law relating to land tenures and land revenue in the State of Uttar Pradesh, and to provide for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.
IT IS HEREBY enacted in the Fifty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :—
Contents
CHAPTER—I Preliminary
CHAPTER—II Revenue Divisions
CHAPTER—III Board and the Revenue Officers
- 7.Board of Revenue
- 8.Jurisdiction of the Board
- 9.Power to distribute business
- 10.Decisions of the Board
- 11.Commissioners and Additional Commissioners
- 12.Collectors and Additional Collectors
- 13.Sub-Divisional Officers and Additional Sub-Divisional Officers
- 14.Tahsildars and Tahsildars Judicial
- 15.Naib-Tahsildars
- 16.Revenue Inspectors and Lekhpals
- 17.Combination of Office
- 18.Recovery of money, papers, and other Government property
- 19.Other power of Revenue Officers
CHAPTER—IV Boundaries and Boundary Marks
- 20.Fixation and demarcation of boundaries
- 21.Obligation regarding maintenance and repair of boundary marks
- 22.Destruction etc. of boundary marks
- 23.Power to require erection, repair of renewal of boundary marks
- 24.Disputes regarding boundaries
- 25.Rights of way and other easements
- 26.Removal of obstacle
- 27.Revisional powers of Sub-Divisional Officer
- 28.Order not to debar from establishing any right of easement
CHAPTER—V Maintenance of village records
- 29.List of villages
- 30.Maintenance of Map and Field Book
- 31.Record of Rights
- 32.Correction of records
- 33.Mutation in cases of succession
- 34.Duty to report in cases of transfer
- 35.Mutation in cases of succession or transfer
- 36.Intimation of transfer and deposit of land revenue
- 37.Bar against certain suits
- 38.Correction of errors and omission
- 39.Certain orders of revenue officers not to debar a suit
- 40.Presumption as to entries
- 41.Kisan Bahi
- 42.Duty to produce information or documents
CHAPTER—VI Revision of village records
- 43.Notification of record and survey operations
- 44.Record Officer and Assistant Record Officer
- 45.Power of Record Officer during record or survey operation
- 46.Revisions of records during record operation
- 47.Revision of records during survey operation
- 48.Powers of Record Officer as to erection of boundary marks
- 49.Procedure of revision of map and records
- 50.Finalization of record of rights
- 51.Preparation of new record of rights
- 52.Procedure for villages where no records are available
- 53.Presumption as to the entries
CHAPTER—VII Ownership of Land and other Properties
CHAPTER—VIII Management of Land and other Properties by Gram Panchayat or other Local Authority
- 59.Entrustment of land etc. to [Gram Panchayats] and other local authorities
- 60.Superintendence, management and control by Bhumi Prabandhak Samiti
- 61.Management of village tanks
- 62.Conduct of suits and legal proceedings
- 63.Land which may be allotted for abadi sites
- 64.Allotment of abadi sites
- 65.Delivery of possession to allottee
- 66.Inquiry into irregular allotment of abadi sites
- 67.Power to prevent damage, misappropriation and wrongful occupation of [Gram Panchayats] property
- 67-A.Certain house sites to be settled with existing owners thereof
- 68.Gaon Fund
- 69.Consolidated Gaon Fund
- 70.Orders and direction of the State Government and the Collector
- 71.Alternative arrangement
- 72.Standing counsel and other lawyers
- 73.Representation of [Gram Panchayat]
CHAPTER—IX Tenures
- 74.Classes of tenures
- 75.Bhumidhar with transferable rights
- 76.Bhumidhar with non-transferable rights
- 77.Bhumidhar rights not to accrue in certain lands
- 78.Asami
- 79.Right of bhumidhars to exclusive possession
- 80.Use of holding for industrial, commercial or residential purposes
- 81.Consequences of declaration
- 82.Cancellation of declaration
- 83.Recording of declaration or cancellation
- 84.Right of an asami for exclusive possession of his holding
- 85.Consequences of using the land in contravenetion of the provisions of this Code
- 86.Extinction of interest of bhumidhar with non-transferable rights or asami
- 87.Improvement not to be removed
Transfers
- 88.Transferability of a bhumidhars interest
- 89.Restriction on transfer by bhumidhar
- 90.Persons other than Indian nationals not to acquire land
- 91.Restrictions on transfer by mortgage
- 92.Mortgage and land by bhumidhar with non-transferable rights
- 93.Transfer of possession for securing money shall be deemed to be a sale
- 94.Lease by a Bhumidhar
- 95.Lease-how made, its termination and any dispute arising thereto
- 96.[Omitted]
- 97.[Omitted]
- 98.Restrictions on transfer by Bhumidhars belonging to a scheduled caste
- 99.Restrictions on transfer by bhumidhars of scheduled tribes
- 100.Mortgage by members of scheduled caste and scheduled tribes
- 101.Exchange
- 102.Consequences of exchange
- 103.[Omitted]
- 104.Transfer in contravention of this code to be void
- 105.Consequences of transfer by Bhumidhar in contravenetion of the Code
- 106.Consequences of transfer made by asami in contravenetion of this Code
Devolution
- 107.Bequest by Bhumidhar or Asami
- 108.General order of succession to male bhumidhar, asami or government lessee
- 109.Succession to woman inheriting interest as a female heir
- 110.Succession to women holding otherwise than as the female heir
- 111.Savings as to religious endowments, etc
- 112.Interest of co-tenure holders to pass by survivorship
- 113.Persons other than Indian citizens and persons of Indian origin not to inherit
- 114.Other conditions regarding devolution
- 115.Escheat
SURRENDER AND ABANDONMENT
LEASE OF LAND BY Gram Panchayat
Ejectment
RENT
Declaratory suits
CHATPTER X Government Lessees
CHATPTER XI Assessment of Land Revenue
- 153.Land held by bhumidhar liable to payment of land revenue
- 154.Land revenue payable by bhumidhar
- 155.Variation of land revenue
- 156.Exemption of land revenue in certain cases
- 157.Remission or suspension of land revenue on the occurrence of agricultural calamity
- 158.Power of state Government to remit rent in certain cases
- 159.Consequences of suspension of rent
- 160.Annual enquiry of revenue free land
- 161.Rounding off the amount of land revenue
- 162.Finality of orders
CHATPTER XII Collection of Land Revenue
- 163.Land Revenue to be the first charge
- 164.Bhumidhars to be jointly and severally liable
- 165.Land Revenue when becomes due and payable
- 166.Arrangements for collection of land revenue
- 167.Defaulters
- 168.Certified account to be evidence of arrears
- 169.Writ of demand
- 170.Process for recovery of arrears
- 171.Arrest and detention
- 172.Attachment and sale of movable property
- 173.Attachment of bank account and locker of the defaulter
- 174.Attachment of holding
- 175.Lease of holding
- 176.Sale of holding
- 177.Attachment and sale of other immovable property
- 178.Appointment of receiver
- 179.Procedure of recovery
- 180.Recovery of costs and collection charges
- 181.Recovery proceedings against legal representatives etc
Attachment and sale of immovable properties
- 182.Attachment of immovable property
- 183.Objection against attachment
- 184.Proclamation of sale
- 185.Affixation of proclamation
- 186.Sale when and by whom made
- 187.Stoppage of the sale
- 188.Prohibition to bid
- 189.Deposit by purchaser and re-sale on default
- 190.Deposit of purchase money
- 191.Auction sale of land held by Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe
- 192.Application to set aside sale on deposit of arrears
- 193.Application to set aside sale for irregularity
- 194.Confirmation of sale
- 195.Setting aside of sale by Collector or Commissioner
- 196.Bar of claims against certain cases
- 197.Refund of purchase money
- 198.Certificate of sale
- 199.Certified purchaser to be put in possession
- 200.Application of sale proceeds
- 201.Summary ejectment of unauthorized occupants
- 202.Bar of suits
- 203.Payment before suit
- 204.Other payments not to be a valid discharge
- 205.Applicability of the Chapter
CHAPTER—XIII Jurisdiction and Procedure of Revenue Courts
- 206.Jurisdiction of civil court and revenue courts
- 207.First appeal
- 208.Second appeal
- 209.Bar against certain appeals
- 210.Power to call for the records
- 211.Board’s power of review
- 212.Power to transfer cases
- 213.State Government to be necessary party in certain cases
- 214.Applicability of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 and Limitation Act, 1963
- 215.Orders not to be invalid on account of irregularity in procedure
- 216.Service of notice
- 217.Revenue Courts to have no power to adjudicate upon the validity of enactment
CHAPTER XIV Miscellaneous
- 218.Power to exempt from the provisions of the Code
- 219.Delegation
- 220.Power to enter upon land
- 221.Right to inspect and obtain copies
- 222.Computation of areas in certain districts
- 223.Mode of recovery of fines etc
- 224.Power to call for statement
- 225.Protection of action taken in good faith
- 225-A.Determination of questions in summary proceeding
- 225-B.Lodging of Caveat
- 225-C.Constitution of Committee
- 225-D.Power of an Assistant Collector of First Cass not in charge of a sub division
- 225-E.Powers of Assistant Collector of second class
- 225-F.Consolidation of cases
CHAPTER—XV Penalties
CHAPTER—XVI Repeal and savings
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