Act 11 of 1898

The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898

An Act to consolidate and amend the Law relating to Agricultural Tenancies in the Central Provinces.

  • Ministry of Home Affairs
  • Department of States
  • Enacted 1898-10-21
  • 100 sections
SectionTitle
1 Short title, extent and commencement.Read
2 Definitions.Read
3 Classes of tenants.Read
4 Presumption as to amount of rent payable.Read
5 Date from which order fixing rent operates.Read
6 Time for payment of rents.Read
7 Rents payable to a number of landlords.Read
8 Power to deposit rent in certain cases with Revenue officer.Read
9 Effect of depositing rent.Read
10 Penalty for levy of anything in excess of rent by landlord.Read
11 Presumption as to payments by tenant to landlord.Read
12 Penalty for refusing receipt or giving defective receipt.Read
13 Enhancement of rent when productive power of holding increased by landlord.Read
14 Reduction of rent when effect of improvement ceases.Read
15 Power to alter rent when holding is increased, diminished or deteriorated.Read
16 Power to alter rent in case of new assessment.Read
17 Commutation of rent payable in kind.Read
18 Remission and suspension of rent consequent on like treatment of land-revenue.Read
19 Commission for dividing or estimating crops.Read
20 Appointment of assessors, etc.Read
21 Remedy for error in division.Read
22 Procedure when crop has been estimated or appraised.Read
23 Definition of “produce of a holding.Read
24 Power of landlord, by notice, to prohibit removal of produce.Read
25 Effect of instituting suit for rent while notice is in force.Read
26 Right to reap, etc., produce not affected.Read
27 Content and service of notice; time for which it remains in force.Read
28 Procedure when produce is under attachment.Read
29 Conflict between rights of superior and inferior landlord.Read
30 Penalty for illegal distraint by landlord, and for illegal removal of produce.Read
31 Right to make improvements.Read
32 Liability to pay to tenant on ejectment compensation for improvements.Read
33 Assessment of compensation.Read
34 Avoidance of provisions barring right to make, or be compensated for, improvements.Read
35 Surrender of holdings.Read
36 Surrender of occupancy-tenant’s holding.Read
37 Tenant taking thika or farm.Read
38 Provisions regarding tenant-right not applicable to tenant of land in reserved forests.Read
39 Definition of absolute occupancy-tenant.Read
40 Rents fixed for period of settlement.Read
41 Right heritable and transferable after notice to landlord, who may claim to purchase.Read
42 Absolute occupancy-tenant not liable to ejectement.Read
43 Rent first charge on holding and holding saleable in execution of decree for arrears of rent.Read
44 Definition of Occupancy-tenant.Read
45 Accrual of occupancy-tenant-right in sir-land on transfer of right to occupy as proprietor.Read
46 Devolution of occupancy-right.Read
47 Rights of certain persons to apply to set aside transfers.Read
48 Procedure on application.Read
49 Rent of occupancy-tenant to be fixed at settlement.Read
50 Fixation of rents during currency of settlement in Chanda, Nimar and Sambalpur.Read
51 Enhancement during settlement in other districts.Read
52 Grounds for ejectment.Read
53 Tenant changing land in accordance with village-custom.Read
54 Tenant changing land in other cases.Read
55 Definition of “village-service-tenant”.Read
56 Devolution and transfer of village-service-tenant’s right.Read
57 Obligation of village-service-tenant to provide substitute.Read
58 Grounds on which a village-service tenant may be ejected.Read
59 Definition of sub-tenant.Read
60 Tenure according to agreement.Read
61 Power to declare sub-tenants in certain cases to have rights of ordinary tenants.Read
62 Definition of “ordinary tenant”.Read
63 Landlord’s right to recover rents determined at settlement as payable by ordinary tenants.Read
64 Notice of enhancement to be served through Revenue-officer.Read
65 Liability of tenant to ejectment in default of his agreeing to enhancement.Read
66 Procedure in ejectment suit.Read
67 Rent of ordinary tenant regulated by agreement.Read
68 Fresh proceedings not to be taken for seven years.Read
69 Grounds on which an ordinary tenant may be ejected.Read
70 Devolution of ordinary tenancy.Read
71 Right of certain persons to apply to set aside transfers.Read
72 Procedure on application.Read
73 Obligation of landlord to confer occupancy-rights on ordinary tenant.Read
74 Power to direct that suits between landlords and tenants be entered in separate registers.Read
75 Plaint in such suits.Read
76 Legal Practitioners’ fees not allowed unless for special reasons.Read
77 Set-off when allowed in suits for arrears.Read
78 Procedure when ordinary tenant in suit pleads excessive rent.Read
79 Tenants’ improvements how to be treated in fixing rents.Read
80 Interest on arrears.Read
81 No appeal in certain suits for arrears.Read
82 Application for execution by sale of holding or by ejectment.Read
83 Arrears decreed not to be on current year’s account.Read
84 Procedure in execution by sale of holding.Read
85 Procedure in execution by ejectment.Read
86 Power of Court to deal with cases of drought or other calamity in suits for arrears.Read
87 Relief against forfeitures.Read
88 Rights of ejected tenants in respect of crops and land prepared for sowing.Read
89 Payment by tenant for occupation of land under section 88.Read
90 In suits for arrears all claims between landlord and tenant to be determined.Read
91 Procedure when, on sale or ejectment, money is due by the land-lord to the tenant.Read
92 Reinstatement of tenant illegally ejected.Read
93 Applications to measure or ascertain condition of holdings.Read
94 Limitation is suits under the Act.Read
95 Jurisdiction of Civil Courts barred in certain cases.Read
96 Procedure on applications to Revenue and Settlement Officers, and appeals from their orders.Read
97 Jurisdiction of Civil Courts in suits between landlords and tenants.Read
98 Recovery of fines and penalties.Read
99 Power to Local Government to make rules.Read
100 Repeals.Read
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