Maharashtra Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act

Act number: 67 of 1948
Enacted: 28 December 1948
Contents: 167 sections

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Section 1 – Short title and extent
Section 2 – Definitions
Section 3 – Application of Chapter V of Transfer of Property Act
Section 4 – Persons to be deemed tenants
Section 4A – Protected tenants
Section 4B – Tenancy not to be terminated by efflux of time (preview)
Section 5 – Ceiling area (preview)
Section 6 – Economic holding (preview)
Section 6A – Irrigated land (preview)
Section 7 – Power of Government to vary ceiling area and economic holding (preview)
Section 8 – Rent and its maximum and minimum (preview)
Section 9 – Rate of rent payable by tenant to his landlord (preview)
Section 9A – Quantum of rent payable by tenant to landlord (preview)
Section 9B – Landlord not liable to make contribution towards cost of cultivation (preview)
Section 9C – Liability of tenant to payment until rent is fixed under preceding sections (preview)
Section 10 – Refund of rent recovered in contravention of the provisions of the Act and other penalties (preview)
Section 10A – Liability of tenant to pay land revenue and certain other cesses (preview)
Section 11 – Abolition of all cesses, etc (preview)
Section 12 – Deleted (preview)
Section 13 – Suspension or remission of rent (preview)
Section 14 – Termination of tenancy for default of tenant (preview)
Section 15 – Termination of tenancy by surrender thereof (preview)
Section 16 – Bar to eviction from dwelling houses (preview)
Section 17 – Tenant to be given first option of purchasing site on which he has built a dwelling house (preview)
Section 17A – Tenant’s right to purchase sites referred to in section 16 (preview)
Section 17B – Tenant to be deemed to have purchased sites referred to in section 16 from specified date (preview)
Section 18 – Tenant to be deemed to have purchased sites referred to in section 16 from specified date (preview)
Section 19 – Tenant’s right to trees planted by him (preview)
Section 20 – Right to produce of naturally growing trees (preview)
Section 21 – Deleted (preview)
Section 22 – Tenants responsible for maintenance of boundary marks (preview)
Section 23 – Repairs of protective bunds (preview)
Section 24 – Relief against termination of tenancy in certain cases (preview)
Section 25 – Relief against termination of tenancy for non-payment of rent (preview)
Section 25A – Tenancy to be in abeyance during usufructuary mortgage in favour of tenant (preview)
Section 26 – Receipts for rent (preview)
Section 27 – Sub-division, sub-letting and assignment prohibited (preview)
Section 28 – Bar to attachment, seizure or sale by process of court (preview)
Section 29 – Procedure of taking possession (preview)
Section 29A – Provisions of section 29 to apply to sites used for allied pursuits (preview)
Section 30 – Rights and privileges of tenants not to be affected (preview)
Section 31 – Landlord’s right to terminate tenancy for personal cultivation and non- agricultural purpose (preview)
Section 31A – Conditions of termination of tenancy (preview)
Section 31B – No termination of tenancy in contravention of Bom. LXII of 1947 or if tenant is member of co-operative farming society (preview)
Section 31BB – Deleted (preview)
Section 31C – Landlord not entitled to terminate tenancy for personal cultivation of land left with tenant (preview)
Section 31D – Apportionment of rent after termination of tenancy for land left with tenant (preview)
Section 32 – Tenants deemed to have purchased land on tillers day (preview)
Section 32A – Tenants deemed to have purchased upto ceiling area (preview)
Section 32B – When tenants not deemed to have purchased lands (preview)
Section 32C – When tenants entitled to choose lands to be purchased (preview)
Section 32D – When tenants deemed to have purchased fragments (preview)
Section 32E – Disposal of balance of lands after purchase by tenants (preview)
Section 32F – Right of tenant to purchase where landlord is minor, etc (preview)
Section 32G – Tribunal to issue notices and determine price of land to be paid by tenants (preview)
Section 32H – Purchase price and its maxima (preview)
Section 32I – Sub-tenant of permanent tenant to be deemed to have purchased land (preview)
Section 32J – Deleted (preview)
Section 32K – Mode of payment of price by tenant-purchaser and the power of Tribunal to recover purchase price (preview)
Section 32L – Repealed (preview)
Section 32M – Purchase to be ineffective on tenant-purchaser’s failure to pay purchase price (preview)
Section 32MM – Certain purchases not to become ineffective (preview)
Section 32N – Landlord’s right to recover rent when purchase becomes ineffective (preview)
Section 32O – Right of tenant whose tenancy is created after tiller’s day to puchase land (preview)
Section 32P – Power of Tribunal to resume and dispose of land not purchased by tenants (preview)
Section 32Q – Amount of purchase price to be applied towards satisfaction of debts (preview)
Section 32R – Purchaser to be evicted if he fails to cultivate personally (preview)
Section 33 – Right of tenants to exchange land (preview)
Section 33A – Definitions (preview)
Section 33B – Special right of certificated landlord to terminate tenancy for personal cultivation (preview)
Section 33C – Tenants of lands mentioned in section 88C to be deemed to have purchased land and other incidental provisions (preview)
Section 34 – Deleted (preview)
Section 34A – Holders of land to furnish particulars of land to Mamlatdar (preview)
Section 35 – Deleted (preview)
Section 35A – Determination of excess land cases (preview)
Section 36 – Fragment in excess of economic holding or ceiling area may be permitted to remain with holder (preview)
Section 37 – Landlord to restore possession if he fails to cultivate within one year (preview)
Section 38 – Deleted (preview)
Section 39 – Application for recovery of possession by tenant (preview)
Section 40 – Continuance of tenancy on death of tenant (preview)
Section 41 – Compensation for improvement made by tenant (preview)
Section 42 – Tenants right to erect farm-house (preview)
Section 43 – Restriction on transfer of land purchased or sold under this Act (preview)
Section 43-1A – Definition (preview)
Section 43-1B – Right of landlord to terminate the tenancy (preview)
Section 43-1C – Transfer of pending proceedings to Collector and State Government (preview)
Section 43-1D – Right of tenant to purchase land from landlord (preview)
Section 43-1E – Saving (preview)
Section 43-A – Some of the provisions not to apply to leases of land obtained by industrial or commercial undertakings, certain co-operative societies or for cultivations of sugarcane or fruits or flowers (preview)
Section 43-B – Reasonable rent of land to which section 43-A applies (preview)
Section 43-C – Certain provisions not to apply to municipal or cantonment areas (preview)
Section 43-D – Deleted (preview)
Section 44 – Powers to assume management of land-holders estate (preview)
Section 45 – Vesting of estate in management (preview)
Section 46 – Effect of declaration of management (preview)
Section 47 – Managers powers (preview)
Section 48 – Manager to pay costs of management, etc (preview)
Section 49 – Notice to claimants (preview)
Section 50 – Claim to contain full particulars (preview)
Section 51 – Claim not duly notified to be barred (preview)
Section 52 – Determination of debts and liabilities (preview)
Section 53 – Power to rank debts and fix interest (preview)
Section 54 – Scheme for liquidation (preview)
Section 55 – Provisions of scheme (preview)
Section 56 – Effects of sanctioning scheme (preview)
Section 57 – Power to remove mortgagee in possession (preview)
Section 58 – Power to sell or lease (preview)
Section 59 – Managers receipt a discharge (preview)
Section 60 – Holder of estate dying (preview)
Section 61 – Termination of management (preview)
Section 62 – Manager deemed to be public servant (preview)
Section 63 – Transfer to non-agriculturists barred (preview)
Section 63-A – Reasonable price of land for the purpose of its sale and purchase (preview)
Section 63-IA – Transfer to non-agriculturist for bona fide industrial use (preview)
Section 64 – Sale of agricultural land to particular person (preview)
Section 64-A – Exemption to sales by or in favour of co-operative societies (preview)
Section 65 – Assumption of management of lands which remained uncultivated (preview)
Section 66 – Acquisition of estate or land under management or interest therein (preview)
Section 67 – Tribunal (preview)
Section 68 – Duties of the Tribunal (preview)
Section 69 – Powers of the Tribunal (preview)
Section 70 – Duties of the Mamlatdar (preview)
Section 71 – Commencement of proceedings (preview)
Section 72 – Procedure (preview)
Section 72-A – Power of Collector to transfer proceedings (preview)
Section 72-B – Application for possession of land made to different Mamlatdars to be heard by designated Mamlatdar (preview)
Section 72-C – Designated Tribunal to conduct proceedings in respect of land held by the same tenant in different areas (preview)
Section 72AA – Distribution of business amongst Mamlatdars (preview)
Section 73 – Execution of order for payment of money or for restoring possession (preview)
Section 73-A – Powers to Collector in inquiries under sub-section (3-A) of section 29; provision as respects revision and execution of orders (preview)
Section 74 – Appeals (preview)
Section 74-A – Powers of Collector to transfer and withdraw appeals (preview)
Section 75 – Appeal against award of Collector (preview)
Section 76 – Revision (preview)
Section 76A – Revisional powers of Collector (preview)
Section 77 – Court-fees (preview)
Section 78 – Orders in appeal or revision (preview)
Section 79 – Limitation (preview)
Section 80 – Inquiries and proceedings to be judicial proceedings (preview)
Section 80-A – Deleted (preview)
Section 81 – Offences and penalties (preview)
Section 82 – Rules (preview)
Section 83 – Delegation of powers and duties (preview)
Section 83A – Restriction on acquiring land by transfer which is invalid (preview)
Section 84 – Summary eviction (preview)
Section 84A – Validation of transfers made before appointed day (preview)
Section 84B – Certain transfers made between appointed date and commencement of Amending Act, 1955, invalid (preview)
Section 84C – Disposal of land, transfers or acquisition of which is invalid (preview)
Section 84CC – Disposal of land, transfer or acquisitions of which is invalid for breach of conditions (preview)
Section 84D – Temporary leases of land liable to be disposed of under section 32P or 84C (preview)
Section 85 – Bar of jurisdiction (preview)
Section 85A – Suits involving issues required to be decided under this Act (preview)
Section 86 – Control (preview)
Section 87 – Indemnity (preview)
Section 87A – Saving in respect of Provisions of Land Tenures Abolition Act (preview)
Section 88 – Exemption to Government lands and certain other lands (preview)
Section 88A – Provisions of Act not to apply to land transferred to or by Bhoodan Samiti (preview)
Section 88AI – Special provisions in respect of tenants of certain lands in villages specified in Schedule IV (preview)
Section 88B – Exemption from certain provisions to land of local authorities, universities and trusts (preview)
Section 88C – Exemption from certain provisions of lands leased by persons with the annual income not exceeding Rs. 1,500 (preview)
Section 88CA – Sections 32 to 32R not to apply to certain service lands (preview)
Section 88CB – Sections 32 to 32R not to apply to saranjam (preview)
Section 88CC – Provisions of Act not to apply in relation to certain leases (preview)
Section 88D – Power of Government to withdraw exemption (preview)
Section 89 – Repeal (preview)
Section 89A – Removal of doubt (preview)
Section 90 – Enactments amended (preview)

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