West Pakistan Land Revenue Act, 1967 — section 172

172. Exclusion of jurisdiction of Civil Courts in matters within the jurisdiction of Revenue Officers. (1) Except as otherwise provided by this Act, no Civil Court shall have jurisdiction in any matter which Government, the Board of Revenue, or any Revenue Officer, is empowered by this Act to dispose of, or take cognizance of the manner in which Government, the Board of Revenue, or any Revenue Officer exercises any powers vested in it or him by or under this Act.

(2)Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-section (1), a Civil Court shall not exercise jurisdiction over any of the following matters, namely:

(i)any question as to the limits of any land which has been defined by a Revenue Officer as land to which this Act does or does not apply ;

(ii)any claim to compel the discharge of any duties imposed by this Act or any other enactment for the time being in force on any Revenue Officer as such;

(iii)any claim to the office of a Village Officer, or in respect of any injury caused by exclusion from such office, or to compel the discharge of the duties or a division of the emoluments thereof ;

(iv)any notification directing the making or revision of a record-of-rights ;

(v)the farming of a record-of-rights or periodical record, or the preparation, signing or attestation of any of the documents included in such a record;

(vi)the correction of any entry in a record-of-rights, periodical record or register of mutations ;

(vii)any notification of the undertaking of the general re-assessment of a District or Tehsil having been sanctioned by Government ;

(viii)any objection to the amount or rate of any assessment of land-revenue or the period thereof authorised by Government ;

(ix)the claim of any person to be liable for an assessment of land-revenue or of any other revenue as assessed under this Act ;

(x)the amount of land-revenue to be assessed on any estate or to be paid in respect of any holding under this Act ;

(xi)the amount of, or the liability of any person to pay, any other revenue to be assessed under this Act, or any cess, charge or rate to be assessed on an estate or holding under this Act or any other enactment for the time being in force ;

(xii)any claim relating to the allowance to be received by a land-owner who has given notice of his refusal to be liable for an assessment, or any claim connected with, or arising out of, any proceedings taken in consequence of the refusal of any person to be liable for an assessment under this Act ;

(xiii)the formation of an estate or determination of its boundaries ;

(xiv)any claim to hold free of revenue any land, mills, fisheries or natural products of land or water ;

(xv)any claim connected with, or arising out of, the collection by Government, or the enforcement by Government of any process for the recovery of, land revenue or any sum recoverable as an arrear of land-revenue ;

(xvi)any claim to set aside, on any ground other than fraud, a sale for the recovery of an arrear of land-revenue or any sum recoverable as an arrear of land-revenue ;

(xvii)the amount of, or the liability of any person to pay, any cess, fees, fines, costs or other charge imposed under this Act;

(xviii)any claim for partition of an estate or holding, or any question connected with or arising out of, proceedings for partition, not being a question as to title in any of the property of which partition is sought;

(xix)any question as to the allotment of land on the partition of an estate or holding, or as to the distribution of land subject by established custom to periodical re distribution or as to the distribution of land-revenue on the partition of an estate or holding or on a periodical re-distribution of land;

(xx)any question connected with or arising out of or relating to any proceedings for the determination of boundaries of estates subject to river action under the provisions of this Act;

(xxi)any claim regarding boundaries fixed under any of the enactments hereby repealed or any other law for the time being in force, or to set aside any order passed by a competent officer under any such law with regard to boundary marks.