West Pakistan Land Revenue Act, 1967 — section 82

82. Arrest and detention of defaulter. (1) If after lapse of fifteen days of the service of notice of demand under section 81 on a defaulter, the arrears of land-revenue due from him, or any part thereof, remain unpaid, a Revenue Officer may issue a further notice to the defaulter requiring him to pay such amount, and if after laps of thirty days of the service of such further notice, such amount or any part thereof still remains unpaid, the Revenue Officer may issue a warrant directing an officer named therein to arrest the defaulter and bring him before the Revenue Officer.

(2)The further notice referred to in sub-section (1) shall be served in the manner provided in sub-sections (1), (2) and (3) of section 24, and a copy thereof shall, wherever practicable, be also forwarded by registered post to the defaulter.

(3)When the defaulter is brought before the Revenue Officer, the Revenue Officer may cause him to be taken before the Collector, or make keep him under personal restraint for a period not exceeding ten days, and then, if the arrear is still unpaid, cause him to be taken before the Collector.

(4)Where the Revenue Officer keeping a defaulter under personal restraint is an Assistant Collector of the second grade, he shall without delay report his action to the Collector, if the period of such restraint exceed twenty-four hours.

(5)When the defaulter is brought before the Collector, the Collector may issue an order to the officer-in-charge of the Civil Jail of the District, directing him to confine the defaulter in jail for such period, not exceeding one month from the date of the order, as the Collector thinks fit.

(6)The process of arrest and detention shall not be executed against a defaulter who is a female, a minor, a lunatic or an idiot.

(7)A warrant of arrest issued against a defaulter under sub-section (1) shall not be executed, if the arrears due from him are paid or the defaulter furnishes security in the manner provided in clause

(b)of sub-section (8).

(8)Any defaulter, who, under sub-section (3) is being kept under personal restraint, or under sub-section (5) is being confined in the Civil Jail, shall forthwith be set at liberty

(a)on the arrears due from such defaulter being paid; or

(b)on the defaulter furnishing to the Revenue Officer ordering his arrest or the Collector, security to the satisfaction of the Revenue Officer or the Collector, as the case may be, for the payment of the arrears due from him.