West Pakistan Land Revenue Act, 1967 — section 42

42. Making of that part of periodical records which relates to land owners. (1) Any person acquiring by inheritance, purchase, mortgage, gift, or otherwise, any right in an estate as a land-owner, or a tenant for a fixed term exceeding one year, shall, within three months from the date of such acquisition, report his acquisition of right to the Patwari of the estate, who shall –

(a)record such report in the Roznamcha to be maintained in the prescribed manner;

(b)Furnish a copy of the report so recorded, free of cost, to the person making the report; and

(c)send a copy of the report, within a week of its receipt by him, to the Union Committee, Town Committee or Union Council within which the estate is situated.

(2)If the person acquiring the right is a minor, or is otherwise unable to report, his guardian or other person having charge of his property shall make the report to the Patwari.

(3)The Patwari shall enter in his register of mutations every report made to him under sub section (1) or sub section (2), and shall also make an entry in the Roznamcha and in the register of mutations respecting the acquisition of any such right as aforesaid which he has reason to believe to have taken place and of which report should have been made to him under either of those sub-sections and has not been so made.

(4)The report made to the Patwari under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) or recorded by him under sub-section (3) shall be displayed in such manner as may be prescribed.

(5)If the Patwari fails to record or to display a report made to him under sub-section (l) or sub section (2), the person making the report may make the report, in writing, to the Revenue Officer concerned and the Chairman of the Union Committee, Town Committee or Union Council in which the estate is situated, by registered post acknowledgement due and the Revenue Officer shall there upon cause such report to be entered in the register of mutations.

(6)A Revenue Officer shall, from time to time, inquire into the correctness of all entries in the register of mutations and into all such acquisitions as aforesaid coming to his knowledge of which, under the foregoing sub-sections, report should have been made to the Patwari and entries made in that register, and shall in each case make such order as he thinks fit with respect to any entry in the periodical record of the right acquired.

(7)Except in cases of inheritance or where the acquisition of the right is by a registered deed or by or under an order or decree of a Court, the Revenue Officer shall make the order under sub section (6) in the presence of the person whose right has been acquired, after such person has been identified by two respectable persons, perferably from Lambardars or members of the Union Committee, Town Committee or Union Council concerned, whose signatures or thumb-impressions shall be obtained by the Revenue Officer on the register of mutations.

(8)An inquiry or an order under sub-section (6) shall be made in the common assembly in the estate to which the mutation, which is the subject matter of the inquiry, relates.

(9)Where a Revenue Officer makes an order under sub-section (6) in regard to the acquisition of any right, an entry shall be made in the periodical record by the insertion therein of a description of the right acquired and by the omission from such record of any entry in any record previously prepared, which, by reason of the acquisition, has ceased to be correct.

(10)If within three months of the making of a report of the acquisition of a right under sub section (1) or sub-section (2), or the recording by the Patwari of an entry in the Roznamcha under sub section (3) respecting the acquisition of any right, no order is made by the Revenue Officer under sub section (6), he shall report the cause of delay to the Collector in the prescribed manner.

(11)The Revenue Officer shall, in the prescribed manner, send or cause to be sent, the gist of an order made by him under sub-section (6), to the person whose right is acquired, and also to the Union Committee, Town Committee or Union Council in which the estate is situated.