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PUNJAB LAND REVENUE (AMENDMENT)
ACT, 2018
An Act further to amend the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1967.
[Gazette of Punjab, Extraordinary, 24th May, 2018]
ACT XXVIII OF 2018
No. PAP/Legis-2(187)/2018/1774. The Punjab Land Revenue (Amendment) Bill, 2018, having been passed by the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab on May 16, 2018, and assented to by the Governor of the Punjab on May 21, 2018, is hereby published as an Act of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab.
It is necessary further to amend the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1967 (XVII of 1967) for purposes of harmonizing the Act with the Punjab Land Records Authority Act, 2017 (VI of 2017).
Be it enacted by Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as follows:
1. Short title and commencement.–(1) This Act may be cited as the Punjab Land Revenue (Amendment) Act, 2018.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Amendment in Section 4 of Act XVII of 1967.–In the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1967 (XVII of 1967), hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’, in Section 4:
(a) after clause (1), the following new clause (1a) shall be inserted:
“(1a) “Arazi Record Centre” means an Arazi Record Centre as defined in clause (a) of sub-section (1) of Section 2 of the Punjab Land Records Authority Act, 2017 (VI of 2017);”;
(b) clauses (23-A) and (23-B) shall be omitted; and
(c) in clause (28), the expression “Service Centre Officials” shall be omitted.
3. Amendment in Section 24 of Act XVII of 1967.–In the Act, in Section 24, in sub-section (5), for the word “conformation”, the word “confirmation” shall be substituted.
4. Amendment in Section 42 of Act XVII of 1967.–In the Act, in Section 42:
(a) sub-section (1-A), sub-section (1-B) and sub-section (1-C) shall be omitted; and
(b) in sub-section (2), the words “or the Service Centre Official” shall be omitted.
5. Amendment in Section 42-A of Act XVII of 1967.–In the Act, in Section 42-A:
(a) for sub-section (1), the following shall be substituted:
“(1) With effect from the date notified under sub-section (2) of Section 41-A, a person acquiring a right in an estate by inheritance, purchase, mortgage, gift or otherwise as a land owner or a tenant for a term exceeding one year, shall, within three months from the date of the acquisition, report the acquisition of the right to the Arazi Record Centre.”;
(b) in sub-section (2), for the words “Service Centre Official”, the words “Arazi Record Centre” shall be substituted;
(c) for sub-section (3), the following shall be substituted:
“(3) Subject to sub-section (4), the Arazi Record Centre shall take further necessary action on the report made under sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) in the manner as may be prescribed under the Punjab Land Records Authority Act, 2017 (VI of 2017)”;
(d) for sub-section (4), the following shall be substituted:
“(4) Until rules are made under the Punjab Land Records Authority Act, 2017 (VI of 2017), the procedure provided in the rules made under this Act shall be followed.”; and
(e) sub-sections (5), (6), (7) and (8) shall be omitted.
6. Amendment in Section 43 of Act XVII of 1967.–In the Act, in Section 43, in sub-section (2), for the words “Service Centre Official” wherever occur, the words “Arazi Record Centre” shall be substituted.
7. Amendment in Section 46 of Act XVII of 1967.–In the Act, in Section 46:
(a) for sub-section (1), the following shall be substituted:
“(1) Subject to sub-section (2) and sub-section (4), the Board of Revenue may fix the scale of fees for an entry in any record or register under this Chapter and also for provision of a copy of any such entries”; and
(b) after sub-section (3), the following new sub-section (4) shall be inserted:
“(4) The Punjab Land Records Authority established under the Punjab Land Records Authority Act, 2017 (VI of 2017) may fix the scale of fees for a computerized mutation and fee for provision of a certified copy of any entries in computerized land records”.
8. Amendment in Section 48 of Act XVII of 1967.–In the Act, in Section 48, in sub-section (2), for the words “Service Centre Official”, the words ‘Arazi Record Centre” shall be substituted.
9. Amendment in Section 55 of Act XVII of 1967.–In the Act, in Section 55:
(a) in clause (d), after the semi-colon, the word “and” shall be inserted;
(b) in clause (e), for the expression “and”, a full-stop shall be substituted, and
(c) clause (f) shall be omitted.
10. Amendment in Section 177 of Act XVII of 1967.–in the Act, in Section 177, for the proviso, the following shall be substituted:
“Provided that every public officer having the custody of computerized land record shall give to every person, on demand, certified extracts from computerized land record or certified copies of the computerized land record on payment of the prescribed fee.”.
