1. Short title.—(1) This Act may be called the Panjab District Boards Act, 1883.
Extent.—(2) It shall extend only to the territories for the time being administered by
the Lieutenant-Governor of the Panjab; and
Commencement.—(3) It shall come into force in each district on such date as the Local
Government, by notification, directs.
2. Repeal of Act V of 1878.—From the date on which this Act comes into force in any district, the
Panjab Local Rates Act, 1878 (V of 1878), shall be repealed throughout that district. But all rates
imposed, sums credited to the Local Government, and notifications published under that Act, shall, so far
as may be, be deemed to have been respectively spectively imposed, credited and published under this Act.
3. Definitions.—In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or
context,—
(1) “Land” means land assessed to the land-revenue, and includes land whereof the land-revenue has
been wholly, or in part, released, compounded for, redeemed or assigned.
(2) “Land-revenue” includes trini or grazing-dues levied for grazing on Government lands under
section 48 of the Panjab Laws Act, 1872 (IV of 1872).
(3) “Landholder” means any person responsible for the payment of the land-revenue, if any,
assessed on land. It also includes the proprietor of land the land-revenue of which has been wholly, or in
part, released, compounded for, redeemed or assigned.
(4) “Annual value” means—
(a) double the land-revenue for the time being assessed on any land, whether the assessment is
leviable or not ; or
(b) where the land-revenue has been permanently assessed, or has been wholly or in part compounded for or redeemed, double the amount which, but for such permanent assessment,
composition or redemption, would have been leviable; or
(c) where no land-revenue has been assessed, double the amount which would have been
assessed if the average village-rate had been applied:
Provided that, in any tract in which, under the settlement for the time being in force, the
improvement of the land due to canal irrigation has been excluded from account in assessing the
land-revenue, and a rate has been imposed in respect of such improvement, that rate shall be
added to the land-revenue for the purpose of computing the annual value.
(5) “Financial year” means the year commencing on the first day of April.
(6) “Prescribed day “means such day as the Local Government may, from time to time, prescribe.
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[(6A) “Punjab” means the territories which, immediately before the Ist November, 1956, were
comprised in the State with the same name];
(7) “Notification “means a notification published in the official Gazette.
(8) “Notified” means notified in the official Gazette.
(9) “Deputy Commissioner” means the Deputy Commissioner of a district, and includes any
officer specially appointed by the Local Government to perform the functions of a Deputy
Commissioner under this Act.
4. Power exercisable from time to time.—All powers conferred by this Act may be exercised from
time to time as occasion requires.