Section 21. Record-of-rights and documents included therein

(1) Save as otherwise provided by this Chapter, there shall he a record-of-rights for each estate.

(2) The record-of-rights for an estate shall include the following documents, namely: —

(a) statements showing, so far as may be practicable—

(i) the persons who are land-holders, ¹[occupants] of land revenue in the estate, or who are entitled to receive any of the rents, profits or produce of the estate or to occupy land therein ;

(ii) the nature and extent of the interests of those persons; and the conditions and liabilities attaching thereto ; and

(iii) the rent, land revenue, rates, cesses or other payments due from and to each of those persons and to the ²[Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir] ;

³[(iv) survey number or plot number held within its area ;

(v) type and characteristics of soil ;]

(b) a statement of customs respecting rights and liabilities in the estate ;

(d) such other documents as the ⁴[Financial Commissioner with the previous sanction of the Government] may prescribe.

⁵[EXPLANATION. –– Record-of-rights mentioned above includes record-ofrights and the map prepared and transferred under the provisions of the Jammu and Kashmir Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1962.]

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