Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887
Bare Act · 1887
An Act to amend the Law relating to the Tenancy of Land in the Punjab.
- Act number
- 16 of 1887
- Enacted
- 23 September 1887
- Contents
- 112 sections · 9 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
- Section 1 – Title, extent and commencement
- Section 2 – Power to make rules in anticipation of commencement
- Section 3 – Repealed
- Section 4 – Definitions
Chapter II — Right Of Occupancy
- Section 5 – Tenants having right of occupancy
- Section 6 – Right of occupancy of other tenants recorded as having the right before passing of Punjab Tenancy Act, 1868 (preview)
- Section 7 – Right of occupancy in land taken in exchange (preview)
- Section 8 – Establishment of right of occupancy on grounds other than those expressly stated in Act (preview)
- Section 10 – Right of occupancy not to be acquired by joint owner in land held in joint ownership (preview)
- Section 11 – Continuance of existing occupancy rights (preview)
Sections
Chapter III — Rent
- Section 12 – Respective rights of landlord and tenant to produce (preview)
- Section 13 – Commutation and alteration of rent (preview)
- Section 14 – Payments for land occupied without consent of landlord (preview)
- Section 15 – Collection of rents of undivided property (preview)
- Section 16 – Presumption with respect to produce removed before division or appraisement (preview)
- Section 17 – Appointment of referee for division or appraisement (preview)
- Section 18 – Appointment of assessors and procedure of referee (preview)
- Section 19 – Procedure after division or appraisement (preview)
- Section 20 – Enhancement of produce - rents of occupancy tenants (preview)
- Section 21 – Reduction of rents referred to in the last foregoing section (preview)
- Section 22 – Enhancement of cash rents of occupancy tenants (preview)
- Section 23 – Reduction of rent referred to in the last foregoing section (preview)
- Section 24 – Enhancement and reduction of rent by suit (preview)
- Section 25 – Discretion as to extent of enhancement or reduction (preview)
- Section 26 – Time for enhancement or reduction to take effect (preview)
- Section 27 – Adjustment of rents expressed in terms of the land revenue (preview)
- Section 28 – Alteration of rent on alteration of area (preview)
- Section 29 – Remission of rent by Courts decreeing arrears (preview)
- Section 30 – Remission and suspension of rent consequent on like treatment of land revenue (preview)
- Section 31 – Power to deposit rent in certain cases with Revenue officer (preview)
- Section 32 – Effect of depositing rent (preview)
- Section 33 – Recovery of rent from attached produce (preview)
- Section 34 – Treatment of leases for period exceeding or equal to term of assessment of land revenue (preview)
Chapter IV
- Section 35 – Relinquishment by tenant for a fixed term (preview)
- Section 36 – Relinquishment by any other tenant (preview)
- Section 37 – Relinquishment of part only of a tenancy (preview)
- Section 38 – Abandonment of tenancy by occupancy tenant (preview)
- Section 39 – Grounds of ejectment of occupancy tenant (preview)
- Section 40 – Grounds of ejectment of tenant for a fixed term (preview)
- Section 41 – Ejectment of tenant from year to year (preview)
- Section 42 – Restriction on ejectment (preview)
- Section 43 – Application to Revenue officer for ejectment (preview)
- Section 44 – Ejectment for failure to satisfy decree for arrear of rent (preview)
- Section 45 – Ejectment of tenant from year to year by notice (preview)
- Section 46 – Power to make rules (preview)
- Section 47 – Time for ejectment (preview)
- Section 48 – Relief against forfeiture (preview)
- Section 49 – Rights of ejected tenants in respect of crops and land prepared for sowing (preview)
- Section 50 – Relief of wrongful dispossession or ejectment (preview)
- Section 51 – Bar of relief by suit under section 9, Act I of 1877 (preview)
- Section 52 – Power for local Government to fix dates for certain purposes (preview)
Chapter V
- Section 53 – Private transfer of right of occupancy under section 5 by tenant (preview)
- Section 54 – Procedure on foreclosure of mortgage of right of occupancy under section 5 (preview)
- Section 55 – Sale of right of occupancy under section 5 in execution of decree (preview)
- Section 56 – Transfer of right of occupancy under any other section than section 5 (preview)
- Section 57 – Rights and liabilities of transferee of right of occupancy (preview)
- Section 58 – Subletting (preview)
- Section 59 – Succession to right of occupancy (preview)
- Section 60 – Irregular transfer of right of occupancy (preview)
Chapter VI
- Section 61 – Improvements by landlords on tenancies of occupancy-tenants (preview)
- Section 62 – Enhancement of rent in consideration of an improvement made by a landlord on the tenancy of an occupancy-tenant (preview)
- Section 63 – Title of occupancy-tenant to make improvements (preview)
- Section 64 – Title of tenants not having right of occupancy to make improvements (preview)
- Section 65 – Improvements made before commencement of this Act (preview)
- Section 66 – Improvements begun in anticipation of ejectment (preview)
- Section 67 – Tender of lease for twenty years to tenant to be a bar to right to compensation (preview)
- Section 68 – Liability to pay compensation for improvements to tenants on ejectment or on enhancement of his rent (preview)
- Section 69 – Compensation for disturbance of clearing tenants (preview)
- Section 70 – Determination of compensation by Revenue Court (preview)
- Section 71 – Determination of compensation by Revenue-officers (preview)
- Section 72 – Matters to be regarded in assessment of compensation for improvements (preview)
- Section 73 – Form of compensation (preview)
- Section 74 – Relief in case of ejectment before determination of compensation (preview)
Chapter VII
- Section 75 – Revenue-officers (preview)
- Section 76 – Applications and proceedings cognizable by Revenue-officers (preview)
- Section 77 – Revenue Courts and suits cognizable by them (preview)
- Section 78 – Superintendence and control of Revenue-officers and Revenue Courts (preview)
- Section 79 – Power to distribute business and withdraw and transfer cases (preview)
- Section 80 – Appeals (preview)
- Section 81 – Limitation for appeals (preview)
- Section 82 – Review by Revenue officers (preview)
- Section 83 – Computation of periods limited for appeals and applications for review (preview)
- Section 84 – Power to call for, examine and revise proceedings of Revenue officers and Revenue Courts (preview)
- Section 85 – Procedure of Revenue officers (preview)
- Section 86 – Persons by whom appearances may be made before Revenue officers as such and not as Revenue Courts (preview)
- Section 87 – Costs (preview)
- Section 88 – Procedure of Revenue Courts (preview)
- Section 89 – Power of Revenue-officer or Revenue Court to summon persons (preview)
- Section 90 – Mode of service of summons (preview)
- Section 91 – Mode of service of notice, order or proclamation or copy thereof (preview)
- Section 92 – Mode of making proclamation (preview)
- Section 93 – Joinder of tenants as parties to proceedings relating to rent (preview)
- Section 94 – Exception of suits under this Act from operation of certain enactments (preview)
- Section 95 – Payment into Court of money admitted to be due to a third person (preview)
- Section 96 – Execution of decrees for arrears of rent (preview)
- Section 97 – Prohibition of imprisonment of tenants in execution of decrees for arrears of rent (preview)
- Section 98 – Power to refer party to Civil Court (preview)
- Section 99 – Power to refer to Chief Court questions as to jurisdiction (preview)
- Section 100 – Power of Chief Court to validate proceedings had under mistake as to jurisdiction (preview)
- Section 101 – Place of sitting (preview)
- Section 102 – Holidays (preview)
- Section 103 – Discharge of duties of Collector dying or being disabled (preview)
- Section 104 – Retention of powers by Revenue officer on transfer (preview)
- Section 105 – Conferment of powers of Revenue officer or Revenue Court (preview)
- Section 106 – Power for Financial Commissioner to make rules (preview)
- Section 107 – Rules to be made after previous publication (preview)
- Section 108 – Powers exercisable by Financial Commissioner from time to time (preview)
Chapter VIII
- Section 109 – Nullity of certain entries in records-of-rights (preview)
- Section 110 – Nullity of certain agreements contrary to the Act (preview)
- Section 111 – Saving of other agreements when in writing (preview)
- Section 112 – Effect of certain entries made in records-of-rights before November, 1871 (preview)