42. Preparation of record of rights.—It shall be the duty of the survey officer to prepare a record of
rights for each village showing the area of each survey number and other particulars and any other record
or register, in accordance with the rules made under this Act.
43. Publication of the record of rights.—(1) When a record of rights has been prepared, the survey
officer shall publish a draft of the record in such manner and for such period as may be prescribed and
shall receive and consider any objections which may be made to any entry therein or to any omission
therefrom during the period of such publication.
(2) When all objections have been considered and disposed of in accordance with the rules made in
this behalf, the survey officer shall cause the record to be finally published in the prescribed manner.
(3) Every entry in the record of rights as finally published shall, until the contrary is proved, be
presumed to be correct.
44. Jurisdiction of civil courts.—The civil courts shall have jurisdiction to decide any dispute to
which the Government is not a party relating to any right or entry which is recorded in the record of
rights.
45. Correction of bona fide mistake in register.—The survey officer may, on application made to
him in this behalf or on his own motion, within one year from the date of final publication of the record of
rights, correct any entry in such record which he is satisfied has been made owing to a bona fide mistake.
46. Register of mutations.—(1) There shall be maintained for every village a register of mutations in
such form and in such manner as may be prescribed.
(2) Any person acquiring by succession, survivorship, inheritance, partition, purchase, mortgage, gift
or otherwise any right in land or, where such person acquiring the right is a minor or otherwise
disqualified, his guardian or other person having charge of his property, shall report his acquisition of
such right to the competent authority within three months from the date of such acquisition and such
authority shall give at once a written acknowledgement in the prescribed form for such report to the
person making it.
(3) The competent authority shall enter the substance of every report made to it under sub-section (2)
in the register of mutations and also make an entry therein respecting the acquisition of any right of the
kind mentioned in sub-section (2) which it has reason to believe to have taken place and of which a report
has not been made under the said sub-section and, at the same time, shall post up a complete copy of the
entry in a conspicuous place in the village and shall give written intimation to all persons appearing from
the record of rights or the register of mutations to be interested in the mutations and to any other person
whom it has reason to believe to be interested therein.
(4) Should any objection to any entry made under sub-section (3) in the register of mutations be made
either orally or in writing to the competent authority, the particulars shall be entered in the register of
disputed cases and the competent authority shall at once give a written acknowledgement in the
prescribed form for the objection to the person making it.
(5) The objections made under sub-section (4) shall be decided on the basis of possession by the
competent authority and orders disposing of objections entered in the register of disputed cases shall be
recorded in the register of mutations by the competent authority.
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(6) After the entries in the register of mutations have been tested and found correct, the entries shall
be transferred to the record of rights and shall be certified by such officer as may be prescribed in this
behalf.
47. Penalty for neglect to furnish information.—The deputy commissioner may, if he is of opinion
that any person has wilfully neglected to make the report required by section 46 within the prescribed
period, impose on such person a penalty not exceeding twenty-five rupees.
48. Assistance in preparation of maps.—Subject to the rules made under this Act,—
(a) any revenue officer may, for the purpose of preparing or revising any map or plan required for
or in connection with any record or register under this Chapter, exercise any of the powers of the
survey officer under section 27 except the power of assessing the cost of hired labour; and
(b) any revenue officer not below the rank of sub-divisional officer may assess the cost of the
preparation or revision of such maps or plans and all expenses incidental thereto and such of costs and
expenses shall be recoverable in the same manner as an arrear of land revenue.
49. Certified copies.—Certified copies of entries in the record of rights may be granted by such
officers and on payment of such fees as may prescribed.
50. Maps and other records open to inspection.—Subject to such rules and on payment of such
fees, if any, as may be prescribed, all maps and land records shall be open to inspection by the public
during office hours, and certified extracts therefrom or certified copies thereof may be given to all persons
applying for the same.
51. Power to transfer duty of maintaining maps and records to settlement officer.—When a local
area is under settlement, duty of maintaining the maps and records may, under the orders of the
Administrator, be transferred from the deputy commissioner to the settlement officer.