3. Power to create, alter or abolish districts, sub-divisions, etc.—(1) The Administrator may, with
the previous concurrence of the Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, divide the territories
to which this Act extends into one or more districts, and may similarly divide any district into
sub-divisions and tehsils, and may alter the limits of, or abolish, any district, sub-division or tehsil.
(2) The districts, sub-divisions and tehsils exiting at the commencement of this Act shall continue
respectively to be the districts, sub-divisions and tehsils under this Act unless otherwise provided under
sub-section (1).
4. Appointment of revenue officers.—The Government or such officer as may be authorised by the
Government in this behalf, may appoint the following classes of revenue officers, namely:—
(a) deputy commissioner;
(b) additional deputy commissioner;
(c) director of settlement and land records;
(d) sub-divisional officers;
(e) extra-assistant commissioners;
(f) survey and settlement officers;
(g) assistant survey and settlement officers;
(h) sub-deputy collectors;
(i) revenue inspectors;
(j) amins;
(k) such other village officers and servants as may be appointed by rules made under this Act.
5. Deputy Commissioner and certain other revenue officers.—(1) Each district shall be placed
under the charge of a deputy commissioner who shall be in charge of the revenue administration of the
district and exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the deputy commissioner under this Act or
any other law for the time being in force and shall exercise so far as is consistent therewith such other
powers of superintendence and control within the district and over the officers subordinate to him as may
from time to time be prescribed.
(2) The additional deputy commissioner shall exercise all such powers and perform all such duties of
the deputy commissioner or other revenue officer as the Administrator may specify by notification in the
Official Gazette.
(3) Each sub-division shall be placed under the charge of a sub-divisional officer.
(4) The extra-assistant commissioners shall exercise all such powers and perform all such duties of
the deputy commissioner or other revenue officer as the Administrator may specify by notification in the
Official Gazette.
(5) Each tehsil shall be placed under the charge of a sub-deputy collector.
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(6) The duties and powers of the sub-divisional officers, the sub-deputy collectors and other revenue
officers shall be such as may be imposed or conferred on them by or under this Act or any other law in
force for the time being or any general or special order of the Administrator published in the Official
Gazette.
6. Settlement officers.—The officers specified in terms (c), (f) and (g) of section 4 shall have power
to take cognizance of all matters connected with the survey of land and the settlement of revenue rates
and the preparation and maintenance of land records and other registers and shall exercise all such powers
and perform all such powers and perform all such duties as may be prescribed by any general or special
order of the Administrator published in the Official Gazette.
7. Subordination of revenue officers.—All revenue officers shall be subordinate to the
Administrator and all revenue officers in the district or a sub-division shall be subordinate to the deputy
commissioner or the sub-divisional officer, as the case may be.
8. Combination of offices.—It shall be lawful for the Administrator to appoint one and the same
person to any two or more of the offices provided for in this Chapter, to make any appointment by virtue
of office and also to confer on any officer of the Government all or any of the powers and duties of any of
the revenue officers including the deputy commissioner.
9. Notification of appointments.—All appointments made under this Chapter except appointments
of revenue inspectors and village accountants and other village officers and servants shall be notified in
the Official Gazette.
10. Seals.—The Administrator shall, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify
the revenue officers who shall use a seal and also the size and description of the seal which each such
officer shall use.