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Section 3: Tenant having right of occupancy

The Himachal Pradesh Tenancy and Land Reforms Act, 1972State Act of Himachal Pradesh · Act 8 of 1974

A tenant-

(a) who at the commencement of this Act has for a period of not less than twelve years been occupying land paying no rent therefor beyond the amount of land revenue thereof and the rates and cesses for the time being chargeable thereon; or

(b) who having owned land, and having ceased to be landowner thereof otherwise than by forfeiture to the Government or than by any voluntary act, has, since he ceased to be landowner, continuously occupied the land; or

(c) who has broken upland for cultivation ;

has a right of occupancy in the land so occupied or in the land so

1. Added by ibid.

2 Clause (c) reading “a person who takes from the State Government a lease of unoccupied land for the purpose of sub-letting it” del. by H.P. No. 15 of 1976.

3 Clause (18-A) ins vide Act No. 34 of 2012.

11 H.P. TENANCY AND LAND REFORMS ACT, 1972 broken up for cultivation.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Himachal Pradesh Tenancy and Land Reforms Act, 1972
Section3
Marginal noteTenant having right of occupancy
JurisdictionState of Himachal Pradesh
StatusIn force as published by the source

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