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1THE AZAD KASHMIR LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT, 1948 1THE AZAD KASHMIR LEGAL PRACTITIONERS ACT, 1948. (The Legal Practitioners Act, 1879) 2[ACT NO. XVIII OF 1879] [Dated October 29, 1879] AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO LEGAL PRACTITIONERS CHAPTER-IV OF REVENUE-AGENTS 23. Procedure when revenue‑agent is so charged in subordinate office.‑-- If any revenue‑agent holding certificate issued under this Act is charged with any such conduct in any office subordinate to the Chief Controlling Revenue‑authority, or in the Court of any Munsif, the officer at the head of such office, or such Munsif, as the case may be, shall send him a copy of the charge, and also a notice that on a day to be therein appointed, such charge will be taken into consideration. Such copy and notice shall be served upon the person charged at least fifteen days before the day so appointed. On such day or on any other day to which the inquiry may be adjourned, the officer or Munsif shall receive all evidence properly produced in support of the charge, or by the person charged, and shall proceed to adjudicate on the charge. If the officer or Munsif finds the charge established, and considers that the person charged should be suspended or dismissed in consequence, he shall record his finding and grounds thereof, and report the same to the Chief Controlling Revenue‑authority; and such Authority shall proceed to acquit, suspend or dismiss him. Any Revenue‑officer not inferior to a Collector, and, with Collector's sanction, any Revenue‑officer subordinate to him, or any Munsif in his district, may, pending the investigation and the orders of the Chief Controlling Revenue authority, suspend from practice any revenue‑agent charged before him under this section. When any officer acting under this section is subordinate to the Commissioner of a Division, he shall transmit the report through such Commissioner, who shall forward with the same an expression of his own opinion on the case.