Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955

Bare Act · 1955

In the syllabus of: Rajasthan Higher Judiciary · Rajasthan JLO

Act number: 3 of 1955
Enacted: 21 March 1955
Contents: 288 sections · 17 chapters

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Contents

Chapter I — Preliminary

Chapter II — Khudkasht

Section 9 – Khudkasht right (preview)
Section 10 – Succession and transfer (preview)
Section 11 – Restriction on letting of Khudkasht (preview)
Section 12 – Extinction of Khudkasht right (preview)
Section 13 – Khatedari rights upon resumption or abolition (preview)

Chapter III — Classes of Tenants

Section 14 – Classes of tenants (preview)
Section 15 – Khatedar tenants (preview)
Section 15A – Khatedari rights not to accrue in Indira Gandhi Canal Area (preview)
Section 15AA – Non-accrual of Khatedari rights in Chambal Project Area in certain cases (preview)
Section 15AAA – Accrual of Khatedari Rights in the Indira Gandhi Canal area (preview)
Section 15B – Khatedar tenants in Abu, Ajmer & Sunel areas (preview)
Section 16 – Land in which Khatedari rights shall not accrue (preview)
Section 16A – Tenants of Khudkasht (preview)
Section 17 – Ghair Khatedari tenant (preview)
Section 17A – Maliks (preview)
Section 18 – Omitted (preview)
Section 19 – Conferment of rights on certain tenants of Khudkasht and sub tenants (preview)
Section 20 – Submission of claims for compensation (preview)
Section 21 – Omitted (preview)
Section 22 – Omitted (preview)
Section 23 – Compensation for Khatedari Rights (preview)
Section 24 – Compensation for Rights in improvements (preview)
Section 25 – Computation of share of compensation in lieu of Nalbat (preview)
Section 26 – Composition of Compensation (preview)
Section 27 – Mode of Payment of Compensation (preview)
Section 28 – Omitted (preview)
Section 29 – Omitted (preview)
Section 30 – Special provision for payment of compensation in certain specific case (preview)
Section 30A – Savings and disposal of pending applications (preview)

Chapter III-C — Primary Rights of Tenants

Section 31 – Rights to residential house (preview)
Section 32 – Right to written lease and counterparts (preview)
Section 33 – Attestation of leases in lieu of Registration (preview)
Section 34 – Prohibition of premium or Forced Labour (preview)
Section 35 – Prohibition of payment other than rent (preview)
Section 36 – Use of materials (preview)
Section 36A – Acquisition of right to Nalbat (preview)
Section 37 – Bar to seizure, attachment and sale by process of Court (preview)

Chapter IV — Devolution, Transfer, Exchange and Division

Section 38 – Interest of tenants (preview)
Section 39 – Bequest (preview)
Section 40 – Succession to tenants (preview)
Section 41 – Transferability of Khatedar's interest (preview)
Section 42 – General restrictions on sale, gift and bequest (preview)
Section 42A – Omitted (preview)
Section 42B – Declaration as valid of sale, gift and bequest (preview)
Section 43 – Mortgage (preview)
Section 43A – Provisions in relation to mortgages of agricultural holding effected before the commencement of the Act (preview)
Section 44 – Rights to let or sub-let (preview)
Section 45 – Restrictions on letting and subletting (preview)
Section 46 – Letting or sub-letting in exceptional cases (preview)
Section 46A – Special provision for letting or sub-letting by members of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes (preview)
Section 47 – Successor bound by sub-lease (preview)
Section 47A – Provision in relation to certain transfers in the Abu, Ajmer and Sunel areas (preview)
Section 48 – Exchange of land (preview)
Section 49 – Exchange for consolidation (preview)
Section 49A – Special provision for exchange by members of scheduled castes or scheduled tribes (preview)
Section 50 – Right of tenants on exchange (preview)
Section 51 – Right in lands allotted in exchange for other lands (preview)
Section 52 – Entry of exchange in record of rights (preview)
Section 53 – Division of Holding (preview)
Section 54 – Omitted (preview)
Section 54A – Omitted (preview)

Chapter V — Surrender, Abandonment and Extinction Surrender of Tenancies

Section 55 – Surrender (preview)
Section 56 – Notice to landholder (preview)
Section 57 – Surrender on enhancement (preview)
Section 58 – Suit to set aside surrender (preview)
Section 59 – Taking possession of surrendered holding (preview)
Section 60 – Abandonment (preview)
Section 61 – Procedure before taking possession of a holding treated as abandoned (preview)
Section 62 – Rights of tenants presumed to have abandoned their holding (preview)
Section 63 – Tenancy when extinguished (preview)
Section 64 – Vacation on extinction (preview)

Chapter VI — Improvements

Section 65 – Right of Government to make improvements (preview)
Section 66 – Right of Khatedar Tenants to make improvements (preview)
Section 67 – Right of landholders to make improvements (preview)
Section 68 – When permission may be granted or refused by Tehsildar (preview)
Section 69 – Provision when both landholder and tenant want to make the same improvement (preview)
Section 70 – Right of other tenants to make improvements (preview)
Section 71 – Restriction on making an improvement (preview)
Section 72 – Liability for full rent (preview)
Section 73 – Compensation for loss (preview)
Section 74 – Compensation for improvement (preview)
Section 75 – Amount of compensation (preview)
Section 76 – Work benefiting other lands (preview)
Section 77 – Registration of outlay or improvement (preview)
Section 78 – Disputes as regards improvements (preview)

Chapter VII — Trees

Section 79 – Tenant's rights to plant trees (preview)
Section 79A – Tenant's right to plant trees on Government land along side public roads (preview)
Section 80 – Tenant's right in trees existing at the commencement of this Act (preview)
Section 81 – Trees on unoccupied land (preview)
Section 82 – Trees not transferable independently of land (preview)
Section 83 – Trees not removable except as provided (preview)
Section 84 – When and by whom trees may be removed (preview)
Section 85 – Disputes regarding trees (preview)
Section 86 – Penalties for unlawful removal (preview)
Section 87 – Omitted (preview)

Chapter VIII — Declaratory Suits

Section 88 – Suits for declaration of right (preview)
Section 89 – Suit as to class of tenancy etc (preview)
Section 90 – Suit for declaration of land as Khudkasht (preview)
Section 91 – Suit for declaration of other rights (preview)
Section 92 – Single suit in respect of several holdings (preview)
Section 92A – Suit for injunction (preview)

Chapter IX — Determination and Modification of Rent

Section 93 – Liability for payment of rent (preview)
Section 94 – Initial rent (preview)
Section 95 – Presumption as to rent (preview)
Section 96 – Maximum cash rent recoverable by Government (preview)
Section 97 – Authority to prescribe maximum cash rents (preview)
Section 98 – Maximum rent where land revenue is settled (preview)
Section 99 – Maximum rent in areas where rent has been settled (preview)
Section 100 – Higher maximum in certain cases (preview)
Section 101 – Maximum not to operate for increase over present rate of rent (preview)
Section 101A – Provisions as to the maximum not to apply to lands under fruit trees on unsettled lands (preview)
Section 102 – Recovery of amount realised in excess (preview)
Section 103 – Conversion of kind rents into cash rents in certain cases (preview)
Section 104 – Maximum rate of rent in kind (preview)
Section 105 – Higher rate of kind rate where landholder contributes to production (preview)
Section 106 – Rent how calculated (preview)
Section 107 – Determination of rent-rates in certain circumstances (preview)
Section 108 – Duration of rent-rates (preview)
Section 109 – Additional Powers of Rent-Rate Officer (preview)
Section 110 – Formation of circles and soil classification (preview)
Section 111 – Basis of rates (preview)
Section 112 – Applicability of proposed rates with or without modification (preview)
Section 113 – Provisions for rates in special cases (preview)
Section 114 – Procedure in publishing and sanctioning rent-rates (preview)
Section 115 – Fixation of tent (preview)
Section 116 – Determination of rent' on partial ejectment or surrender (preview)
Section 117 – Disputes as to rent in certain cases (preview)
Section 118 – Commutation of rent (preview)
Section 119 – Period of currency and rent (preview)
Section 120 – Method of varying rent (preview)
Section 121 – Grounds for enhancement of rent (preview)
Section 122 – Limits of enhancement (preview)
Section 123 – Tenant's plea in enhancement suit or application (preview)
Section 124 – Grounds for abatement of rent (preview)
Section 125 – Enhancement or abatement when to take effect (preview)
Section 126 – Remission or suspension of rent in agricultural calamities (preview)
Section 127 – Period of suspension to be excluded in computing period of limitation (preview)
Section 128 – Non-recovery of rent remitted or suspended (preview)
Section 129 – Revision of rent in emergencies (preview)

Chapter X — Payment and Recovery of Rent

Section 130 – Hypothecation of produce towards payment of Rent (preview)
Section 131 – Presumption as to payment by, tenant (preview)
Section 132 – Application of rent payment (preview)
Section 133 – Rent how payable (preview)
Section 134 – Presumption as to money order acknowledgement (preview)
Section 135 – Right of tenant to receipt (preview)
Section 136 – Particular of receipts (preview)
Section 137 – Obligation of Government to print and supply book of receipts (preview)
Section 138 – Right of tenant to statement of account (preview)
Section 139 – Deposit of rent in the Court of Tehsildar (preview)
Section 140 – Disposal of deposit by Tehsildar (preview)
Section 141 – Deposit of rent in court during pendency of suit (preview)
Section 142 – Bars of Suits (preview)
Section 143 – Section 139 to 142 when inapplicable (preview)
Section 144 – Right and liabilities in respect of produce (preview)
Section 145 – Rent in kind to be recoverable by actual division of the produce (preview)
Section 146 – No cartage allowed (preview)
Section 147 – Collector to publish return of current prices (preview)
Section 148 – Application for officer to make division, estimate or (preview)
Section 149 – Procedure on such application (preview)
Section 150 – Suit for appears of produce rent (preview)
Section 151 – Instalments ;low fixed (preview)
Section 152 – Rent when in arrear (preview)
Section 153 – Prohibition of arrest or detention for arrears (preview)
Section 154 – Method of recovering arrears (preview)
Section 155 – Suit against co-tenant (preview)
Section 156 – Joinder for arrears (preview)
Section 157 – Remission for calamity by court decreeing claim for arrears (preview)
Section 158 – Recovery for arrears of irrigation dues (preview)
Section 159 – Suit of certain arrears as arrears of land revenue (preview)
Section 160 – Recovery of arrears in the case of general refusal to pay (preview)

Chapter XI — Ejectment

Section 161 – Ejectment to be in accordance with the Act (preview)
Section 162 – Arrear demand satisfied upon ejectment (preview)
Section 163 – Omitted (preview)
Section 164 – Compensation for improvement on ejectment (preview)
Section 165 – Payment of compensation (preview)
Section 166 – Right to crops and trees when ejectment takes effect (preview)
Section 167 – Contents and service of notice (preview)
Section 168 – Immunity from ejectment from residential houses (preview)
Section 169 – Issue of notice' for payment of arrears and for ejectment in default (preview)
Section 170 – Procedure after issue of notice (preview)
Section 171 – Consequences and cancellation of order passed under section 170 (preview)
Section 172 – Tenants claim for Compensation on appearance (preview)
Section 173 – Bar to suits and applications in certain cases (preview)
Section 174 – Ejectment in execution of decree for arrears of rent (preview)
Section 175 – Ejectment for illegal transfer or sub-letting (preview)
Section 176 – Decree or order under section 175 (preview)
Section 177 – Ejectment for detrimental act or breach of condition (preview)
Section 178 – Decree or Order under section 177 (preview)
Section 179 – Suit for compensation, etc (preview)
Section 180 – Additional provisions for ejectment of Khudkasht or Gair Khatedar tenants or sub-tenants (preview)
Section 181 – Application and notice (preview)
Section 182 – Procedure subsequent to the issue of notice (preview)
Section 182A – Limit of the time for certain application under Section 180 (preview)
Section 182B – Restoration of land not brought under personal cultivation (preview)
Section 183 – Ejectment of certain trespasser (preview)
Section 183A – Summary eviction of mortgagee on non-delivery of possession of land after the expiry of the period of mortgage (preview)
Section 183B – Summary ejectment of trespasser of the land held by a member of a scheduled caste or a scheduled tribe (preview)
Section 183C – Punishment for trespass in certain cases (preview)
Section 184 – Time of execution (preview)
Section 185 – Mode of Execution of decree or order (preview)
Section 186 – Omitted (preview)
Section 187 – Remedies for wrongful ejectment (preview)
Section 187A – Availability of the provisions of section 187 to certain aggrieved tenants (preview)
Section 187B – Summary suit for reinstatement based on possession (preview)
Section 188 – Injunction against wrongful ejectment (preview)

Chapter XII — Grant of Land

Chapter XIII — Grove Holders

Section 194 – Rights and liabilities of grove-holders (preview)
Section 195 – Rights to make improvement (preview)
Section 196 – Devolution and transfer of interest (preview)
Section 197 – Provisions as to rent (preview)
Section 198 – Ejectment (preview)

Chapter XIV — Daradars or Thekadars

Section 199 – Rights exercisable by an Ijaradar or Thekadar (preview)
Section 200 – Restrictions on the transfer or succession of Ijara or Theka (preview)
Section 201 – Grounds of ejectment (preview)
Section 202 – How to proceeds for ejectment (preview)
Section 203 – Remedy for wrongful ejectment (preview)
Section 204 – Surrender (preview)
Section 205 – Provision for holding over (preview)

Chapter XV — Procedure and Jurisdiction or Revenue Courts

Section 206 – Provision for pending cases, etc (preview)
Section 207 – Suits and applications cognizable by revenue court only (preview)
Section 208 – Application of Civil Procedure Code (preview)
Section 209 – Granting any relief to which plaintiff is entitled (preview)
Section 210 – Procedure when plea of payment in good faith to a third person is taken (preview)
Section 211 – Suits etc. by co-sharers (preview)
Section 212 – Provision for injunction and appointment of a receiver (preview)
Section 213 – Sale of Khatedar tenant's interest in execution of decree of arrears of rent (preview)
Section 214 – Limitation in cases under this Act (preview)
Section 215 – Court fee payable (preview)
Section 216 – Place of sitting of revenue courts (preview)
Section 217 – Ordinary powers of different grades of revenue courts (preview)
Section 218 – Inherent powers of revenue courts (preview)
Section 219 – Additional Powers of revenue courts (preview)
Section 220 – Courts in which proceedings to be instituted (preview)
Section 221 – Subordination of revenue courts (preview)
Section 222 – Appeal not to lie unless allowed by this Act (preview)
Section 223 – Appeals from original decrees (preview)
Section 224 – Appeals from appellate decrees (preview)
Section 225 – Appeal from orders (preview)
Section 226 – Power of Board to reject an appeal summarily (preview)
Section 227 – No decree or order to be reversed or modified for error or irregularity (preview)
Section 228 – Limitation for appeals (preview)
Section 229 – Power of review by Board and other revenue courts (preview)
Section 230 – Power of the Board to call for cases (preview)
Section 231 – Powers to High Court to call for cases (preview)
Section 232 – Power to call for record and refer to the Board (preview)
Section 233 – Transfer of Cases by Revenue Board (preview)
Section 234 – Omitted (preview)
Section 235 – Transfer and withdrawal of Cases by Collector and Sub- Divisional Officer (preview)
Section 236 – Omitted (preview)
Section 237 – Transfer of cases by Collector or Sub-Divisional Officer (preview)
Section 238 – Transfer of revenue appeals by High Court (preview)
Section 239 – Procedure when plea of proprietary right raised (preview)
Section 240 – Limitation and court fee for appeal under section 239 (preview)
Section 241 – Procedure in appeals when material for determining question of proprietary right not on record (preview)
Section 242 – Procedure when plea of tenancy rights raised in Civil Courts (preview)
Section 243 – Power to refer question of jurisdiction to High Court (preview)
Section 244 – Plea in appeal that suit was instituted in wrong Court (preview)
Section 245 – Procedure when objection was taken in the court of first instance (preview)

Chapter XVI — Miscellaneous

Section 246 – Arrears of revenue, profit etc (preview)
Section 247 – Suit for arrears of revenue paid (preview)
Section 248 – Suit by or against Ijaredars or Thekadars (preview)
Section 249 – Suit for settlement of accounts (preview)
Section 250 – Joinder of parties in certain cases (preview)
Section 251 – Rights of way and other private easement (preview)
Section 251A – Laying of underground pipeline or opening a new way through another khatedar's holding or enlarging the existing way (preview)
Section 252 – Tenant entitled to compensation for illegal exactions (preview)
Section 253 – Failure to give receipt (preview)
Section 254 – Protection of action taken under Act (preview)
Section 255 – Recovery of costs, etc (preview)
Section 256 – Bar to jurisdiction of Civil courts (preview)
Section 257 – Power of Government to make rules (preview)
Section 258 – Power of Board to make rules (preview)
Section 259 – Rule subject to the condition of previous publication (preview)
Section 260 – Saving (preview)