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Section 61
The Jammu and Kashmir Land Revenue Act, 1996 (1939 A.d.)Jammu and Kashmir

Section 61. Process for recovery of arrears

Subject to the other provisions of this Act 1[any sum recoverable as an arrear of land revenue under any law for the time being in force] may he recovered by any one or more of the following processes, namely:—

(a) by service of a writ of demand on the defaulter ;

(b) by arrest and detention of his person ;

(c) by distress and sale of his movable property and uncut or ungathered crops ;

(d) by transfer of the holding in respect of which the arrear is due ;

(e) by attachment of the estate or holding in respect of which the arrear is due ;

(f) by annulment of assessment of that estate or holding ;

(g) by sale of that estate or holding ;

(h) by proceeding against other immovable property of the defaulter.

1Superscript markers show text inserted or substituted by a later amendment. The Act carries the markers without the footnotes they refer to, so they are shown without a target.