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11/1898 - The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898 ▶

Act Number: 11

Act Name: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898

Year: 1898

Enactment Date: 1898-10-21

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

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

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