The Government of Kerala on January 24, 2026, issued the Kerala Revenue Recovery (Amendment) Rules, 2026 to further amend the Kerala Revenue Recovery Rules, 1968.
The following amendments have been stated:
• After rule 5, the following rules shall be inserted, namely :-
"6. Where a property purchased as bought-in-land, the intimation to the defaulter and the subregistry office concerned, in respect of changes made in the revenue records as per sub-section (5) of section 50 of the Act, shall be made as in Form 16 A.
7. Where the value of property calculated exceeds the dues payable by the defaulter, the balance amount payable to the defaulter as per sub-section (6) of section 50 of the Act, shall be paid over to the bank account of the defaulter by the Collector, through an online payment system, within ninety days from the date of confirmation of the sale.
8. After the initiation of revenue recovery proceedings, if a defaulter applies for postponement of further proceedings and to remit such arrear in installments, the Government may by an order, stay further proceedings for a period up to one year and allow the defaulter to remit the arrears in installment.
9. The District Collector or Tahsildar concerned, upon an application received from the defaulter, may also allow the defaulter by an order to remit the arrear amount in such number of installments as the Government may by an order allowed them from time to time.
Note 1: Nothing in this rule shall apply to revenue recovery proceedings initiated based on orders of Courts or Tribunals.
Note 2: If the defaulter after availing any of the installment payment option as above, fails to pay two consecutive installments, the order allowing payment in installments as the case may be will cease to operate and the regular revenue recovery proceedings without installments will be resumed."
• In the Appendix to the said rules,- after "Form 16", the following form shall be inserted, namely: -
"FORM 16 A [See sub-section (5) of Section 50 and Rule 6] FORM OF INTIMATION OF CHANGE IN REVENUE RECORDS AS BOUGHT – IN-LAND”
They shall come in to force at once.
[Notification No. S. R. O. No. 90/2026]
