Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887.

The Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887.

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Act ID:	188716
Act Number:	16
Enactment Date:	1887-09-23
Act Year:	1887
Short Title:	The Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887.
Long Title:	An Act to amend the Law relating to the Tenancy of Land in the Punjab.
Ministry:	Ministry of Rural Development
Department:	Department of Land Resources


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CHAPTER I

PRELIMINARY

CHAPTER II

RIGHT OF OCCUPANCY

CHAPTER III

RENT

CHAPTER IV

RELINQUISHMENT, ABANDONMENT AND EJECTMENT.
- Relinquishment.
LIABILITY TO EJECTMENT
PROCEDURE ON EJECTMENT.
GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING EJECTMENT.
RELIEF FOR WRONGFUL DESPOSSESSION
- Power to vary Dates prescribed by this Chapter

CHAPTER V

ALIENATION OF, AND SUCCESSION TO, RIGHT OF OCCUPANCY

CHAPTER VI

IMPROVEMENTS AND COMPENSATION

CHAPTER VII

JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURE

CHAPTER VIII

EFFECT OF THIS ACT ON RECORDS-OF-RIGHTS AND AGREEMENTS.


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 Repealed.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


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