West Pakistan Land Revenue Act, 1967 — section 173

173. Powers to invest officers making records-of-rights or general re-assessments with powers of Civil Courts. (1) The Board of Revenue may, by notification, invest any Revenue Officer making or specially revising records-of-rights in any local area in pursuance of a notification under section 40, or making a general re-assessment of land-revenue in any local area in pursuance of a notification under section 59, or any Revenue Officer in a Colony as defined in the Colonization of Government Lands (Punjab) Act, 1912 (Punjab Act V of 1912), or any Revenue Officer to whose control that Officer is subject with all or any of the powers of any Court, constituted under the West Pakistan Civil Courts Ordinance, 1962 (West Pakistan Ordinance II of 1962), for the purpose of trying all or any specified class of suits or appeals relating to land arising in the local area.

(2)The Board of Revenue may cancel an order notified under sub-section (l) wholly or in part.

(3)While an order or any part of an order under sub-section (1) continues in force, the powers conferred thereby shall be exercised by the officer invested therewith and not otherwise.

(4)Any case pending before an officer under the order or subsisting part of the order at the time of cancellation thereof may be disposed of by him as if the order or that part of it continued in force, unless the Board of Revenue directs, as it is hereby empowored to do, that those cases shall be transferred for disposal to the Courts by which they would have been disposed of if the order had not been notified.