(XVII OF
1967)
[7th
December, 1967]
An Act to
consolidate and amend the law relating to Land Revenue in the
Word
'Punjab' substituted for `
CHAPTER X
Surveys and
Boundaries
Sindh. For the heading below Chapter XIII, the heading "APPEAL AND
REVISION" shall be substituted. h Ord. XI of 1980, S. 11
163. Review. (1) A Commissioner, Collector or an Assistant Collector, may, at any
time, on his own motion, review any order passed by himself
or any of his predecessors‑in‑office, and on so reviewing modify,
reverse or confirm the same.
(2) Any person
considering himself aggrieved by an order passed by a Commissioner, Collector
or an Assistant Collector, and who, from the discovery of new and important
matter or evidence which, after the exercise of due diligence was not within
his knowledge or could not be produced by him at the time when the order was
passed, or on account of some mistake or error apparent on the face of the
record of for any other sufficient reason, desires to obtain a review of the
order passed against him, may apply for a review of the order to the Commissioner,
Collector or Assistant Collector, as the case may be, and such officer may
modify reverse or confirm any order passed by himself or by an of his
predecessors‑in‑office:
Provided that:‑‑
(a) an other passed by his predecessor‑in‑office
shall not be reviewed under sub‑section (1) or sub‑section (2) by
the:‑‑
(i) Commissioner, without first obtaining the sanction of
the Board of Revenue;
(ii) Collector,
without first obtaining the sanction of the Commissioner, and no order shall be
reviewed by any other Revenue Officer, without first obtaining the sanction of
the Revenue Officer to whose control he is immediately subject;
(b) an
application for review of an order shall not be entertained unless it is made
within ninety days from .the passing of the order, or unless the applicant
satisfies the Revenue Officer that he had sufficient cause for not making the
application within that period;
(c) an order shall not be modified or reversed unless reasonable
notice, has been given to the parties affected thereby to appear and be heard
in support of the order;
(d) an order against which an appeal has been preferred shall
not be reviewed.
(3) For the
purposes of this section, the Collector shall be deemed to be successor‑in‑office
of any Revenue Officer of a lower class who has left the district or has ceased
to exercise powers as a Revenue Officer, and to whom where is no successor‑in‑office.
(4) An appeal
shall not lie from an order refusing to review or confirming on review a
previous order.