The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898
Central Act · Act 11 of 1898100 provisions
The enactment
| Long title | An Act to consolidate and amend the Law relating to Agricultural Tenancies in the Central Provinces. |
|---|---|
| Type | Act |
| Citation | Act 11 of 1898 |
| Year | 1898 |
| Jurisdiction | Central |
| Ministry | Ministry of Home Affairs |
| Status | In force as published by the source |
| Provisions published | 100 |
| Subjects | property |
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- Section 1 Short title, extent and commencement.
- Section 2 Definitions.
- Section 3 Classes of tenants.
- Section 4 Presumption as to amount of rent payable.
- Section 5 Date from which order fixing rent operates.
- Section 6 Time for payment of rents.
- Section 7 Rents payable to a number of landlords.
- Section 8 Power to deposit rent in certain cases with Revenue officer.
- Section 9 Effect of depositing rent.
- Section 10 Penalty for levy of anything in excess of rent by landlord.
- Section 11 Presumption as to payments by tenant to landlord.
- Section 12 Penalty for refusing receipt or giving defective receipt.
- Section 13 Enhancement of rent when productive power of holding increased by landlord.
- Section 14 Reduction of rent when effect of improvement ceases.
- Section 15 Power to alter rent when holding is increased, diminished or deteriorated.
- Section 16 Power to alter rent in case of new assessment.
- Section 17 Commutation of rent payable in kind.
- Section 18 Remission and suspension of rent consequent on like treatment of land-revenue.
- Section 19 Commission for dividing or estimating crops.
- Section 20 Appointment of assessors, etc.
- Section 21 Remedy for error in division.
- Section 22 Procedure when crop has been estimated or appraised.
- Section 23 Definition of “produce of a holding.
- Section 24 Power of landlord, by notice, to prohibit removal of produce.
- Section 25 Effect of instituting suit for rent while notice is in force.
- Section 26 Right to reap, etc., produce not affected.
- Section 27 Content and service of notice; time for which it remains in force.
- Section 28 Procedure when produce is under attachment.
- Section 29 Conflict between rights of superior and inferior landlord.
- Section 30 Penalty for illegal distraint by landlord, and for illegal removal of produce.
- Section 31 Right to make improvements.
- Section 32 Liability to pay to tenant on ejectment compensation for improvements.
- Section 33 Assessment of compensation.
- Section 34 Avoidance of provisions barring right to make, or be compensated for, improvements.
- Section 35 Surrender of holdings.
- Section 36 Surrender of occupancy-tenant’s holding.
- Section 37 Tenant taking thika or farm.
- Section 38 Provisions regarding tenant-right not applicable to tenant of land in reserved forests.
- Section 39 Definition of absolute occupancy-tenant.
- Section 40 Rents fixed for period of settlement.
- Section 41 Right heritable and transferable after notice to landlord, who may claim to purchase.
- Section 42 Absolute occupancy-tenant not liable to ejectement.
- Section 43 Rent first charge on holding and holding saleable in execution of decree for arrears of rent.
- Section 44 Definition of Occupancy-tenant.
- Section 45 Accrual of occupancy-tenant-right in sir-land on transfer of right to occupy as proprietor.
- Section 46 Devolution of occupancy-right.
- Section 47 Rights of certain persons to apply to set aside transfers.
- Section 48 Procedure on application.
- Section 49 Rent of occupancy-tenant to be fixed at settlement.
- Section 50 Fixation of rents during currency of settlement in Chanda, Nimar and Sambalpur.
- Section 51 Enhancement during settlement in other districts.
- Section 52 Grounds for ejectment.
- Section 53 Tenant changing land in accordance with village-custom.
- Section 54 Tenant changing land in other cases.
- Section 55 Definition of “village-service-tenant”.
- Section 56 Devolution and transfer of village-service-tenant’s right.
- Section 57 Obligation of village-service-tenant to provide substitute.
- Section 58 Grounds on which a village-service tenant may be ejected.
- Section 59 Definition of sub-tenant.
- Section 60 Tenure according to agreement.
- Section 61 Power to declare sub-tenants in certain cases to have rights of ordinary tenants.
- Section 62 Definition of “ordinary tenant”.
- Section 63 Landlord’s right to recover rents determined at settlement as payable by ordinary tenants.
- Section 64 Notice of enhancement to be served through Revenue-officer.
- Section 65 Liability of tenant to ejectment in default of his agreeing to enhancement.
- Section 66 Procedure in ejectment suit.
- Section 67 Rent of ordinary tenant regulated by agreement.
- Section 68 Fresh proceedings not to be taken for seven years.
- Section 69 Grounds on which an ordinary tenant may be ejected.
- Section 70 Devolution of ordinary tenancy.
- Section 71 Right of certain persons to apply to set aside transfers.
- Section 72 Procedure on application.
- Section 73 Obligation of landlord to confer occupancy-rights on ordinary tenant.
- Section 74 Power to direct that suits between landlords and tenants be entered in separate registers.
- Section 75 Plaint in such suits.
- Section 76 Legal Practitioners’ fees not allowed unless for special reasons.
- Section 77 Set-off when allowed in suits for arrears.
- Section 78 Procedure when ordinary tenant in suit pleads excessive rent.
- Section 79 Tenants’ improvements how to be treated in fixing rents.
- Section 80 Interest on arrears.
- Section 81 No appeal in certain suits for arrears.
- Section 82 Application for execution by sale of holding or by ejectment.
- Section 83 Arrears decreed not to be on current year’s account.
- Section 84 Procedure in execution by sale of holding.
- Section 85 Procedure in execution by ejectment.
- Section 86 Power of Court to deal with cases of drought or other calamity in suits for arrears.
- Section 87 Relief against forfeitures.
- Section 88 Rights of ejected tenants in respect of crops and land prepared for sowing.
- Section 89 Payment by tenant for occupation of land under section 88.
- Section 90 In suits for arrears all claims between landlord and tenant to be determined.
- Section 91 Procedure when, on sale or ejectment, money is due by the land-lord to the tenant.
- Section 92 Reinstatement of tenant illegally ejected.
- Section 93 Applications to measure or ascertain condition of holdings.
- Section 94 Limitation is suits under the Act.
- Section 95 Jurisdiction of Civil Courts barred in certain cases.
- Section 96 Procedure on applications to Revenue and Settlement Officers, and appeals from their orders.
- Section 97 Jurisdiction of Civil Courts in suits between landlords and tenants.
- Section 98 Recovery of fines and penalties.
- Section 99 Power to Local Government to make rules.
- Section 100 Repeals.
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