Act Number: 12

Act Name: The Bengal Land Revenue Sales Act, 1841

Year: 1841

Enactment Date: 1841-07-19

Long Title: AN Act for amending the Bengal Code in regard to Sales of Land for Arrears of Revenue.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 8: Exceptions.
    Provided always, and it is hereby enacted, that no estate shall be sold for the recovery of arrears or demands of the description mentioned below, otherwise than after a notification in the language of the District, specifying the nature and amount of the arrear or demand, shall have been affixed, for a period of not less than fifteen clear days preceding the day of sale, in the Office of the Collector, or other Officer as aforesaid, by whom the sale is intended to be made, in the Court of the Judge within whose jurisdiction the land advertised lies, in the Courts of all the Principal Sudder Ameens, Sudder Ameens and Moonsiffs of the District, and at the Police Thannah of the Division in which the estate to which the notice related, or part of it is situated, the same to be certified by the receipt of the Officer at whose Office such publication may have been made; and also at the Cutcherry of the Malgoozar of the estate, or at some conspicuous place upon the estate, the same to be certified by the peon or other person employed for the purpose. And it shall be declared in the said notification that no payment or tender of payment of the arrear or demand due, which may be made after sunset of the day preceding the fixed day of sale, will bar or interfere with the sale either at or after the transaction.
     First.--Arrears due from or to be recovered by the sale of estates not permanently settled.
     Secondly.-- Arrears other than those of the current or of the preceding year.
     Thirdly.--Arrears due on account of estates other than that to be sold.
     Fourthly.---Arrears of estates under attachment by order of the Judicial Authorities.
     Fifthly.--Arrears due on account of Tuccavy, Poolbundee, or other demands not being Land Revenue, but recoverable by the same process as arrears of Land Revenue.
    
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