Rules Regarding Service of Revenue Process

Rules Regarding Service of Revenue Process

Published vide Punjab Government, Revenue Department, Notification No. 54A, dated the 15th January, 1946

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(1) Notwithstanding the separation of revenue from the Civil Courts; Revenue Courts and Revenue Officers shall send the processes issued by them for which process fee is charged, to the civil process serving agency for service and execution.

(2) The control over income derived from process fees in all Revenue courts and Revenue Offices and the expenditure on establishment. etc, from this source, shall be retained by the High Court. The Commissioners and the Subordinate Revenue Courts and Officers shall maintain the registers and accounts prescribed by the Rules and Orders of the High Court and submit the annual returns in the prescribed form.

(3) The Revenue Courts and Officers of the Punjab are for the purpose of levying process-fees divided into three grades as shown in the annexed table

Grade	Revenue Courts
First	Financial Commissioners
Second	Commissioners
Third	Collectors and Assistant Collectors

The process fee shall be levied in accordance with the rules framed by the High Court of Judicature at Lahore, under section 20(i)(iii) of the Court Fees Act, 1870, as contained in Chapter 5B of the High Court Rules and Orders, Volume IV.