Maharashtra Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Vidarbha Region) Act.

The Maharashtra Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Vidarbha Region) Act.

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Act ID:	195899
Act Number:	99
Enactment Date:	1958-12-26
Act Year:	1958
Short Title:	The Maharashtra Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Vidarbha Region) Act.
Ministry:	Ministry of Govt of Maharashtra
Department:	Revenue & Forest Department
Type:	STATE
Location:	Maharashtra

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The Maharashtra Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Vidarbha Region) Act.

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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.
Section 7. Certain persons deemed to be tenants for purposes of this Act.
Section 8. Record of rights of ordinary tenants.
Section 9. Tenancy not to be terminated by efflux of time.
Section 10. Restoration of possession to tenants dispossessed after 1st January 1953 in certain circumstances.
Section 11. Maximum rent.
Section 12. Rent.
Section 13. Commutation of rent in crop share into cash rent.
Section 14. Prohibition for receiving rent in terms of service of labour.
Section 15. Refund of rent recovered in contravention of provisions of the Act and other penalties.
Section 16. Abolition of all cesses, etc.
Section 17. Liability of tenants to pay land and canal revenue and cesses.
Section 18. Suspensions or remissions of rent.
Section 19. Termination of tenancy.
Section 20. Termination of tenancy by surrender thereof.
Section 21. Land or portion thereof which landlord is not entitled to retain on surrender to be declared as surplus.
Section 22. Bar to eviction from dwelling house.
Section 23. Tenant to give first option of purchasing site on which he has built a dwelling house.
Section 24. Power to apply sections 22 and 23 to dwelling houses occupied by agricultural labourers, etc.
Section 25. Tenant's right to trees planted by him.
Section 26. Right to produce of naturally growing trees.
Section 27. Responsibility of tenant to maintain boundary marks, etc.
Section 28. Repairs of protective bunds.
Section 29. Relief against termination of tenancy in certain cases.
Section 30. Relief against Termination of tenancy for non-payment of rent.
Section 31. Tenancy to be in abeyance during usufructuary mortgage in favour of tenant.
Section 32. Receipts for rent.
Section 33. Sub-division, sub-letting and assignment prohibited.
Section 34. Bar to attachment, seizure or sale by process of court.
Section 35. Where land is sold for recovery of loan advanced under any law the right of tenant to stand extinguished.
Section 36. Procedure of taking possession.
Section 37. Rights and privileges of tenants not to be affected.
Section 38. Termination of tenancy by landlord for cultivating land personally.
Section 39. Right of certain landlords to terminate tenancy for cultivating personally.
Section 39A. Special right of certain landlords to terminate tenancy for personal cultivation.
Section 40. Provisions of section 38 not to affect right of tenant to purchase land.
Section 41. Right of tenant to purchase land.
Section 42. Extent of land which tenant may purchase under section 41.
Section 43. Tenant to make an offer, determination of purchase price, mode of payment, etc.
Section 44. Amount of purchase price to be applied towards satisfaction of debts.
Section 45. Power to declare occupancy tenants as tenure holder.
Section 46. Transfer of ownership of land to tenants from specified date.
Section 47. Purchase price.
Section 48. Tribunal to determine the extent of land transferred to tenant and purchase price thereof.
Section 49. Provisions of sections 43, 44 and 45 to apply to transfer of ownership under section 46.
Section 49A. Ownership of certain lands to stand transferred to tenants on 1st day of April 1963.
Section 49B. Transfer of possession and ownership of lands to certain dispossessed tenants.
Section 50. Right of tenants holding land under tenancy restored or created after specified date to purchase land.
Section 51. Right of tenants to exchange land.
Section 52. Landlord to restore possession if he fails to cultivate within one year.
Section 53. Circumstances in which landlord shall be deemed to cultivate personally.
Section 54. Rights of tenants to be heritable.
Section 55. Compensation for improvement made by tenant.
Section 56. Tenant's right to erect farm house.
Section 57. Restriction on transfers of land purchased or sold under this Act.
Section 57A. Definition.
Section 57B. Right of landlord to terminate tenancy.
Section 57C. Transfer of pending proceeding to Collector and State Government.
Section 57D. Right of tenant to purchase land from landlord.