GLRC 84A — Order granting suspensions or remission to inferior holders.

Gujarat Land Revenue Code, 1879

Statutory text

(1) Whenever from any cause the payment of the whole or any part of the land revenue payable to '][the '[State] Government] by a superior holder in respect of any land is suspended or remitted, the Collector, acting under general or special orders of '][the '[State] Government], may suspend or remit as the case may be, the payment to such superior holder of the rent of land revenue of such land by the inferior holder or holders to an amount which—

'(a) in the case of land in respect of which full assessment is payable to '][the '[State] Government], shall not exceed double the amount of the land revenue of which the payment by such superior holder has been suspended or remitted by '][the '][State] Government], and

(b) in the case of land in respect of which land revenue less than the full assessment is payable to '][the '][State] Government], shall not exceed double the amount which, in the opinion of the Collector, would have been suspended or remitted by '][the '][State] Government], in favour of the superior holder if the full assessment had been payable to '][the '[State] Government], in respect of such land.

(2) In the case of land in respect of which no land revenue is payable to '][the '][State] Government], by a superior holder, whenever from any cause the payment of the whole or any part of the land revenue payable to '][the '][State] Government], in respect of any other land in the same neighbourhood has been suspended or remitted the collector acting under the general or special orders of '][the '[State] Government], may suspend or remit, as the case may be, payment, to such superior holder of the rent or land revenue of the first-mentioned land by the inferior holder or holders to an amount which shall not exceed double the amount which, in the opinion of the Collector, would have been suspended or remitted by '][the '[State] Government] in favour of the superior holder if the full assessment had been payable to '][the '[State] Government] in respect of such land.

(3) An order passed under sub-section (1) or under sub-section (2) shall not be questioned in any court.

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