Maharashtra Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Vidarbha Region) Act

Act number: 99 of 1958
Enacted: 26 December 1958
Contents: 152 sections

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Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
Section 2 – Definitions
Section 3 – Delimitation of local areas
Section 4 – Determination of family holding
Section 5 – Application of Chapter V of Transfer of Property Act
Section 6 – Persons deemed to be tenants (preview)
Section 7 – Certain persons deemed to be tenants for purposes of this Act (preview)
Section 8 – Record of rights of ordinary tenants (preview)
Section 9 – Tenancy not to be terminated by efflux of time (preview)
Section 10 – Restoration of possession to tenants dispossessed after 1st January 1953 in certain circumstances (preview)
Section 11 – Maximum rent (preview)
Section 12 – Rent (preview)
Section 13 – Commutation of rent in crop share into cash rent (preview)
Section 14 – Prohibition for receiving rent in terms of service of labour (preview)
Section 15 – Refund of rent recovered in contravention of provisions of the Act and other penalties (preview)
Section 16 – Abolition of all cesses, etc (preview)
Section 17 – Liability of tenants to pay land and canal revenue and cesses (preview)
Section 18 – Suspensions or remissions of rent (preview)
Section 19 – Termination of tenancy (preview)
Section 20 – Termination of tenancy by surrender thereof (preview)
Section 21 – Land or portion thereof which landlord is not entitled to retain on surrender to be declared as surplus (preview)
Section 22 – Bar to eviction from dwelling house (preview)
Section 23 – Tenant to give first option of purchasing site on which he has built a dwelling house (preview)
Section 24 – Power to apply sections 22 and 23 to dwelling houses occupied by agricultural labourers, etc (preview)
Section 25 – Tenant's right to trees planted by him (preview)
Section 26 – Right to produce of naturally growing trees (preview)
Section 27 – Responsibility of tenant to maintain boundary marks, etc (preview)
Section 28 – Repairs of protective bunds (preview)
Section 29 – Relief against termination of tenancy in certain cases (preview)
Section 30 – Relief against Termination of tenancy for non-payment of rent (preview)
Section 31 – Tenancy to be in abeyance during usufructuary mortgage in favour of tenant (preview)
Section 32 – Receipts for rent (preview)
Section 33 – Sub-division, sub-letting and assignment prohibited (preview)
Section 34 – Bar to attachment, seizure or sale by process of court (preview)
Section 35 – Where land is sold for recovery of loan advanced under any law the right of tenant to stand extinguished (preview)
Section 36 – Procedure of taking possession (preview)
Section 37 – Rights and privileges of tenants not to be affected (preview)
Section 38 – Termination of tenancy by landlord for cultivating land personally (preview)
Section 39 – Right of certain landlords to terminate tenancy for cultivating personally (preview)
Section 39A – Special right of certain landlords to terminate tenancy for personal cultivation (preview)
Section 40 – Provisions of section 38 not to affect right of tenant to purchase land (preview)
Section 41 – Right of tenant to purchase land (preview)
Section 42 – Extent of land which tenant may purchase under section 41 (preview)
Section 43 – Tenant to make an offer, determination of purchase price, mode of payment, etc (preview)
Section 44 – Amount of purchase price to be applied towards satisfaction of debts (preview)
Section 45 – Power to declare occupancy tenants as tenure holder (preview)
Section 46 – Transfer of ownership of land to tenants from specified date (preview)
Section 47 – Purchase price (preview)
Section 48 – Tribunal to determine the extent of land transferred to tenant and purchase price thereof (preview)
Section 49 – Provisions of sections 43, 44 and 45 to apply to transfer of ownership under section 46 (preview)
Section 49A – Ownership of certain lands to stand transferred to tenants on 1st day of April 1963 (preview)
Section 49B – Transfer of possession and ownership of lands to certain dispossessed tenants (preview)
Section 50 – Right of tenants holding land under tenancy restored or created after specified date to purchase land (preview)
Section 51 – Right of tenants to exchange land (preview)
Section 52 – Landlord to restore possession if he fails to cultivate within one year (preview)
Section 53 – Circumstances in which landlord shall be deemed to cultivate personally (preview)
Section 54 – Rights of tenants to be heritable (preview)
Section 55 – Compensation for improvement made by tenant (preview)
Section 56 – Tenant's right to erect farm house (preview)
Section 57 – Restriction on transfers of land purchased or sold under this Act (preview)
Section 57A – Definition (preview)
Section 57B – Right of landlord to terminate tenancy (preview)
Section 57C – Transfer of pending proceeding to Collector and State Government (preview)
Section 57D – Right of tenant to purchase land from landlord (preview)
Section 57E – Saving (preview)
Section 58 – Some of the provisions not to apply to leases of land obtained by industrial or commercial undertakings, certain co-operative societies or for cultivation of sugarcane, fruits, flowers, etc (preview)
Section 59 – Reasonable rent of land to which section 58 applies (preview)
Section 60 – Certain provisions not to apply to municipal areas (preview)
Section 61 – Deleted (preview)
Section 62 – Power to assume management of landholder's holding (preview)
Section 63 – Vesting of holding in management (preview)
Section 64 – Effect of declaration of management (preview)
Section 65 – Manager's powers (preview)
Section 66 – Manager to pay costs of management, etc (preview)
Section 67 – Notice to claimants (preview)
Section 68 – Claim to contain full particulars (preview)
Section 69 – Claim not duly notified to be barred (preview)
Section 70 – Determination of debts and liabilities (preview)
Section 71 – Power to rank debts and fix interest (preview)
Section 72 – Scheme for liquidation (preview)
Section 73 – Provisions of scheme (preview)
Section 74 – Effects of sanctioning scheme (preview)
Section 75 – Power to remove mortgage in possession (preview)
Section 76 – Power to sell or lease (preview)
Section 77 – Manager's receipt for a discharge (preview)
Section 78 – Death of landholder not to affect management (preview)
Section 79 – Termination of management (preview)
Section 80 – Manager deemed to be public servant (preview)
Section 80A – Assumption of management of land which remained uncultivated (preview)
Section 81 – Assumption of management of surplus land and payment of compensation therefor (preview)
Section 82 – Appointment of Manager (preview)
Section 83 – Provisions which shall have effect during management (preview)
Section 84 – Order of priority for leasing out surplus lands (preview)
Section 85 – Termination of management and the consequences (preview)
Section 86 – Period of management to be excluded in computing period of limitation (preview)
Section 87 – Manager to be public servant (preview)
Section 88 – Deleted (preview)
Section 89 – Transfer to non-agriculturists barred (preview)
Section 89A – Transfer to non-agriculturist for bona-fide Industrial use (preview)
Section 90 – Reasonable price of land for the purpose of its sale or purchase (preview)
Section 91 – Sale of agricultural land to particular person (preview)
Section 91A – Exemption to sales by or in favour of co-operative societies (preview)
Section 92 – Acquisition of holding or land under management or interest therein (preview)
Section 93 – Deleted (preview)
Section 94 – Deleted (preview)
Section 95 – Deleted (preview)
Section 96 – Deleted (preview)
Section 97 – Tribunal (preview)
Section 98 – Duties of Tribunal (preview)
Section 99 – Powers of Tribunal (preview)
Section 100 – Duties of Tahsildar (preview)
Section 101 – Commencement of proceedings (preview)
Section 102 – Procedure (preview)
Section 103 – Power of Collector to transfer proceedings (preview)
Section 104 – Application for possession of land made to different Tahsildars to be heard by designated Tahsildar (preview)
Section 104A – Designated Tribunal to conduct proceedings in respect of land held by the same tenant in different areas (preview)
Section 105 – Distribution of business amongst Tahsildars (preview)
Section 106 – Execution of order for payment of money or for restoring possession (preview)
Section 106A – Powers of Collector of inquiries under sub-section (3A) of section 36. Provision as respect revision and execution of orders (preview)
Section 107 – Appeals (preview)
Section 108 – Powers of Collector to transfer and withdraw appeals (preview)
Section 109 – Appeal against award of Collector (preview)
Section 110 – Revisional powers of Collector (preview)
Section 111 – Revision (preview)
Section 112 – Court-fees (preview)
Section 113 – Orders in appeal or revision (preview)
Section 114 – Limitation (preview)
Section 115 – Inquiries and proceedings to be judicial proceedings (preview)
Section 116 – Deleted (preview)
Section 117 – Offences and penalties (preview)
Section 118 – Rules (preview)
Section 119 – Delegation of powers and duties (preview)
Section 119A – Holders of land to furnish particulars of land to Tahsildars (preview)
Section 119B – Acquisition of land under invalid transfer or partition to be invalid (preview)
Section 120 – Summary eviction (preview)
Section 120A – Validation of certain transfers and acquisitions (preview)
Section 121 – Invalidation of certain transfers or acquisitions of land (preview)
Section 122 – Disposal of land, transfer or acquisition of which is invalid (preview)
Section 122A – Disposal of land, transfer or acquisition of which is invalid for breach of condition (preview)
Section 123 – Leases of land liable to be disposed of under section 122 (preview)
Section 124 – Bar of jurisdiction (preview)
Section 125 – Suits involving issues required to be decided under this Act (preview)
Section 126 – Control (preview)
Section 127 – Indemnity (preview)
Section 128 – Act not to apply to certain lands and areas (preview)
Section 128A – Special provision for land taken under management by Courts, etc (preview)
Section 129 – Exemption from certain provisions to lands held by local authorities, Universities, trusts, etc (preview)
Section 130 – Certain provision of the Act not to apply to holdings and lands assumed under managements under Chapter VI or VII (preview)
Section 130A – Provisions of Act not to apply in relation to certain leases (preview)
Section 131 – Power of Government to withdraw exemption (preview)
Section 132 – Repeals and savings (preview)
Section 133 – Enactments amended (preview)

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