Act8
Enacted 2012

Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code-2006

In force 240 sections Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code-2006

Act 8 of 2012 Enacted 11 Feb 2016 Department Revenue

Preamble

An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to land tenures and land revenue in the State of Uttar Pradesh and to provide for matters connected therewith and incidental there to

IT IS HEREBY enacted in the 57th Year of Republic of India as follows:

Sections

Type to filter. 240 sections.

  1. 1Short title, extent and commencement
  2. 2Applicability of the Code
  3. 3Extension of the Code to new areas
  4. 4Definitions
  5. 5Division of State into revenue areas
  6. 6Constitution of revenue areas
  7. 7Board of Revenue
  8. 8Jurisdiction of the Board
  9. 9Power to distribute business
  10. 10Decisions of the Board
  11. 11Commissioners and Additional Commissioners
  12. 12Collectors and Additional Collectors
  13. 13Sub-Divisional Officers and Additional Sub-Divisional Officers
  14. 14Tahsildars and Tasildars Judicial
  15. 15Naib-Tahsildars
  16. 16Revenue Inspectors and Lekhpals
  17. 17Combination of Office
  18. 18Recovery of money, papers, and other Government property
  19. 19Other power of Revenue Officers
  20. 20Fixation and demarcation of boundaries
  21. 21Obligation regarding maintenance and repair of boundar
  22. 22Destruction etc. of boundary marks
  23. 23Power to require erection, repair of renewal of boundary marks
  24. 24Disputes regarding boundaries
  25. 25Rights of way and other easements
  26. 26Removal of obstacle
  27. 27Revisional powers of SubDivisional Officer
  28. 28Order not to debar from establishing any right of easement
  29. 29List of villages
  30. 30Maintenance of Map and Field Book
  31. 31Record of Rights
  32. 32Correction of records
  33. 33Mutation in cases of succession
  34. 34Duty to report in cases of transfer
  35. 35Mutation in cases of succession or transfer
  36. 36Intimation of transfer and deposit of land revenue
  37. 37Bar against certain suits
  38. 38Correction of errors and omission
  39. 39Certain orders of revenue officers not to debar a suit
  40. 40Presumption as to entries
  41. 41Kisan Bahi
  42. 42Duty to produce information or documents
  43. 43Notification of record and survey operations
  44. 44Record Officer and Assistant Record Officer
  45. 45Power of Record Officer during record or survey operation
  46. 46Revisions of records during record operation
  47. 47Revision of records during survey operation
  48. 48Powers of Record Officer as to erection of boundary marks
  49. 49Procedure of revision of map and records
  50. 50Finalization of record of rights
  51. 51Preparation of new record of rights
  52. 52Procedure for villages where no records are available
  53. 53Presumption as to the entries
  54. 54Title of State in all lands etc
  55. 55Mines and minerals
  56. 56Rights in trees
  57. 57Fruit bearing trees
  58. 58Disputes to be decided by Collector
  59. 59Entrustment of land etc. to 2Gram Panchayats and other local authorities
  60. 60Superintendence, management and control by Bhumi Prabandhak Samiti
  61. 61Management of village tanks
  62. 62Conduct of suits and legal proceedings
  63. 63Land which may be allotted for abadi sites, Act No. 1 of 1894
  64. 64Allotment of abadi sites
  65. 65Delivery of possession to allottee, Act No. 2 of 1974
  66. 66Inquiry into irregular allotment of abadi sites
  67. 67Power to prevent damage, misappropriation and wrongful occupation of 2Gram Panchayats property
  68. 67-ANA
  69. 68Gaon Fund
  70. 69Consolidated Gaon Fund
  71. 70Orders and direction of the State Government and the Collector
  72. 71Alternative arrangement
  73. 72Standing counsel and other lawyers
  74. 73Representation of 3Gram Panchayat
  75. 74Classes of tenures
  76. 75Bhumidhar with transferable rights
  77. 76Bhumidhar with nontransferable rights
  78. 77Bhumidhar rights not to accrue in certain lands
  79. 78Asami
  80. 79Right of bhumidhars to exclusive possession
  81. 80Use of holding for industrial, commercial or residential purposes
  82. 81Consequences of declaration
  83. 82Cancellation of declaration
  84. 83Recording of declaration or cancellation
  85. 84Right of an asami for exclusive possession of his holding
  86. 85Consequences of using the land in contravenetion of the provisions of this Code
  87. 86Extinction of interest of bhumidhar with nontransferable rights or asami
  88. 87Improvement not to be removed
  89. 88Transferability of a bhumidhars interest
  90. 89Restriction on transfer by bhumidhar
  91. 90Persons other than Indian nationals not to acquire land
  92. 91Restrictions on transfer by mortgage
  93. 92Mortgage and land by bhumidhar with nontransferable rights
  94. 93Transfer of possession for securing money shall be deemed to be a sale
  95. 94Lease by a Bhumidhar
  96. 95Lease-how made, its termination and any dispute arising thereto
  97. 96 to 97Omitted by 1. Omit. by sec. 13 of U. P. Act no. 07 of 2019
  98. 98Restrictions on transfer by Bhumidhars belonging to a scheduled caste
  99. 99Restrictions on transfer by bhumidhars of scheduled tribes
  100. 100Mortgage by members of scheduled caste and scheduled tribes
  101. 101Exchange
  102. 102Consequences of exchange
  103. 103Omitted by 1. Subs. by sec. 14 of U. P. Act no. 07 of 2019
  104. 104Transfer in contravention of this code to be void
  105. 105Consequences of transfer by Bhumidhar in contravenetion of the Code
  106. 106Consequences of transfer made by asami in contravenetion of this Code
  107. 107Bequest by Bhumidhar or Asami
  108. 108General order of succession to male bhumidhar, asami or government lessee
  109. 109Succession to woman inheriting interest as a female heir
  110. 110Succession to women holding otherwise than as the female heir
  111. 111Savings as to religious endowments, etc
  112. 112Interest of co-tenure holders to pass by survivorship, Devolution of interest among surviving co—tenure holders
  113. 113Persons other than Indian citizens and persons of Indian origin not to inherit
  114. 114Other conditions regarding devolution
  115. 115Escheat
  116. 116Suit for division of holding
  117. 117Duty of Court in suits for division of holding
  118. 118Surrender by bhumidhar
  119. 119Surrender by asami
  120. 120Effect of surrender
  121. 121Liability for rent-revenue in case of surrender
  122. 122Abandonment by bhumidhar
  123. 123Consequence of abandonment
  124. 124Delivery of possession to 1Gram Panchayat
  125. 125Admission by Bhumi Prabandhak Samiti to land entrusted to 1Gram Panchayat
  126. 126Order of preferences in admission to land by Bhumi Prabandhak Samiti
  127. 127Consequences of allotment
  128. 128Cancellation of allotment and lease
  129. 129Restoration of possession to allottee or the Government lessee
  130. 130Bhumidhar not to be ejected
  131. 131Suit for ejectment etc. against asami
  132. 132Right to crops and trees
  133. 133Suit for injunction, compensation etc
  134. 134Ejectment of persons occupying land without title
  135. 135Deleted by 2. Del. by sec. 108 of U. P. Act no. 04 of 2016
  136. 136Ejectment of trespassers of 2Gram Panchayat land
  137. 137Remedies for wrongful ejectment
  138. 138Rent payable by an asami
  139. 139Application for fixation of rent
  140. 140Remission for calamity by court decreeing claim for arrears
  141. 141Commutation of rent
  142. 142Recovery of arrears of rent from asami of Gram Panchayat, etc
  143. 143Power to write off arrears
  144. 144Declaratory suits by tenure holders
  145. 145Declaratory suit by 1Gram Panchayat
  146. 146Provision for injunction
  147. 147Definition of Government lessee
  148. 148Government lessees right to hold land
  149. 149Ejectment of Government lessee
  150. 150Provisions of U. P. Act no. 22 of 1972 to apply
  151. 151Trespass on land held by a Government lessee
  152. 152Dues recoverable as arrear of land
  153. 153Land held by bhumidhar liable to payment of land revenue
  154. 154Land revenue payable by bhumidhar
  155. 155Variation of land revenue
  156. 156Exemption of land revenue in certain cases
  157. 157Remission or suspension of land revenue on the occurrence of agricultural calamity
  158. 158Power of state Government to remit rent in certain cases
  159. 159Consequences of suspension of rent
  160. 160Annual enquiry of revenue free land
  161. 161Rounding off the amount of land revenue
  162. 162Finality of orders
  163. 163Land Revenue to be the first charge
  164. 164Bhumidhars to be jointly and severally liable
  165. 165Land Revenue when becomes due and payable
  166. 166Arrangements for collection of land revenue
  167. 167Defaulters
  168. 168Certified account to be evidence of arrears
  169. 169Writ of demand
  170. 170Process for recovery of arrears
  171. 171Arrest and detention
  172. 172Attachment and sale of movable property
  173. 173Attachment of bank account and locker of the defaulter
  174. 174Attachment of holding
  175. 175Lease of holding
  176. 176Sale of holding
  177. 177Attachment and sale of other immovable property
  178. 178Appointment of receiver
  179. 179Procedure of recovery
  180. 180Recovery of costs and collection charges
  181. 181Recovery proceedings against legal representatives etc
  182. 182Attachment of immovable property
  183. 183Objection against attachment
  184. 184Proclamation of sale
  185. 185Affixation of proclamation
  186. 186Sale when and by whom made
  187. 187Stoppage of the sale
  188. 188Prohibition to bid
  189. 189Deposit by purchaser and re-sale on default
  190. 190Deposit of purchase money
  191. 191Auction sale of land held by Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe
  192. 192Application to set aside sale on deposit of arrears
  193. 193Application to set aside sale for irregularity
  194. 194Confirmation of sale
  195. 195Setting aside of sale by Collector or Commissioner
  196. 196Bar of claims against certain cases
  197. 197Refund of purchase money
  198. 198Certificate of sale
  199. 199Certified purchaser to be put in possession
  200. 200Application of sale proceeds
  201. 201Summary ejectment of unauthorized occupants
  202. 202Bar of suits
  203. 203Payment before suit
  204. 204Other payments not to be a valid discharge
  205. 205Applicability of the Chapter
  206. 206Jurisdiction of civil court and revenue courts
  207. 207First appeal
  208. 208Second appeal
  209. 209Bar against certain appeals
  210. 210Power to call for the records
  211. 211Board’s power of review
  212. 212Power to transfer cases
  213. 213State Government to be necessary party in certain cases
  214. 214Applicability of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 and Limitation Act, 1963
  215. 215Orders not to be invalid on account of irregularity in procedure
  216. 216Service of notice
  217. 217Revenue Courts to have no power to adjudicate upon the validity of enactment
  218. 218Power to exempt from the provisions of the Code
  219. 219Delegation
  220. 220Power to enter upon land
  221. 221Right to inspect and obtain copies
  222. 222Computation of areas in certain districtsComputation of areas in certain districts
  223. 223Mode of recovery of fines etc
  224. 224Power to call for statement
  225. 225Protection of action taken in good faith
  226. 225-ADetermination of questions in summary proceeding
  227. 225-BLodging of Caveat
  228. 225-CConstitution of Committee
  229. 225-DPower of an Assistant Collector of First Cass not in charge of a sub division
  230. 225-EPowers of Assistant Collector of second class
  231. 225-FConsolidation of cases
  232. 226Penalty for encroachment ect
  233. 2273Damages for destruction etc. of boundary
  234. 228Penalty for cutting or removing tress illegally
  235. 229Penalty for not furnishing required statement or information etc
  236. 230Repeal
  237. 231Applicability of the Code to pending proceedings
  238. 232Power to remove difficulties
  239. 233Rules
  240. 234Regulations

Schedules

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Rules made under this Act

10 sets of Rules. India Code publishes Rules as a record and a document rather than as text, so these are indexed here and not reproduced. All Rules.

  • Notification no.22/1510/Ek-1-2020-R-1, Dated 29 December, 20202020
  • The Uttar Pradesh Abadi Survey and Record Operations regulations, 2020.2020
  • Regarding to Gram Sabha Consolidated fund (Dt 09.04.2018)2018
  • Constitution of Revenue Areas (Dt 27.05.2016)2016
  • Power Deligate to DM or Comm for Resumption (Dt 03.06.2016)2016
  • Resumption Power of DM for Service Department (Dt 03.06.2016)2016
  • The Uttar Pradesh Revenue Code Rule, 2016 (Dt 10-02-2016)2016
  • Enforcement of UP Revenue Code Act, 2006 (Dt 18.12.2015)2015
  • The Uttar Pradesh Record of the Rights (Computerization) Rules, 20052005
  • Uttar Pradesh Land Revenue (Survey and Record Operations) Rules,19781978

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