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