M.P.

Land Revenue
A revision shall not Code, 1959 | 8.17
operate as a stay of proceeding before the Revenue Officer,
where such proceeding is stayed by the Board or the Commissioner or the except
District Survey Officer. [Section 50(4)] Collector or the
An order shall not be varied or reversed in revision unless
notice has been served on the
parties interested and opportunity given to them of being heard.
(Section 50(5)]
Here, all Revenue Officers shall be deemed to be
subordinate to the Board. [Explanation)
The jurisdiction of Board of Revenue is not restricted to order
extends to order
passed by Revenue Officers under
passed under the Code but
any enactment. [State v. M/s. Triyug
Talkies, Khandwa, I.L.R. (2000) M.P. 786]
(b) Review

Section 5l of the Code provides for review of orders. It states that the Board
Officer may, either suo motu or on an
or any Revenue
application any such interested,
of
passed by it or him, or by any predecessor-in-office and passparty
review
order in reference any
order
thereto as
it or he may think fit.
Provided that -

) If the Commissioner, Collector or District Survey Officer thinks it necessary to review

any order which he has not himself passed, he shall first obtain the sanction of the
Board, and if an officer subordinate to the Collector or District Survey Officer
to review an order, whether
proposes
passed by himself or his predecessor, he shall first obtain
the sanction in writing of the Collector or District
Survey Officer to whom he is
immediate subordinate.
(i) An order shall not be varied or reversed unless notice has been
given to the parties
interested to appear and be heard in support of such order.
(iii) An order from which an appeal has been made, or which is the subject of any revision
proceedings shall not, so long as such appeal or proceedings are pending, be reviewed.

iv) An order affecting any question of right between private persons shall not be reviewed
except on the application of a party to the proceedings, and no application for the review
of such order shall be entertained unless it is made within 45 days from the passing of
the order.
Grounds for Review
Section 51(2) ofthe Code provides that an order shall not be reviewed except on the following
grounds, namely -

a. Discovery of new and important matter or evidence, which after the exercise of due
diligence was not within the knowledge of the applicant or could not be produced by him
at the time when the order was made;
b. Some mistake or error apparent on the face of the record; or
C. Any other sufficient reason.