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Section 64: Distress and sale of moveable property and crops.

The Jammu and Kashmir Land Revenue Act, 1996 (1939 A.d.)Union territory Act of Jammu and Kashmir · Act 12 of 1966

(1) At any time after [any sum has become recoverable as an arrear of land revenue] the movable property and uncut or un-gathered crops of the defaulter may be distrained and sold by order of a Revenue Officer, not below the rank of [Tehsildar].

(2) The distress and sale shall be conducted, as nearly as may be, in accordance with the law for the time in force for the attachment and sale of movable property under the decree of a Civil Court:

Provided, that, in addition to the particulars exempted by that law from liability to sale, so much of the produce of the land of the defaulter as the [Tehsildar] thinks necessary for seed grain and for the subsistence, until the harvest next following, of the defaulter and his family, and of any cattle exempted by that law, shall be exempted from sale under this section.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Jammu and Kashmir Land Revenue Act, 1996 (1939 A.d.)
Section64
Marginal noteDistress and sale of moveable property and crops.
JurisdictionUnion territory of Jammu and Kashmir
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, Act X of 2005. . Substituted by Act X of 2005, s. 8.
  • substituted. . Substituted ibid for “Collector”.

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