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Agricultural Tenancy Act, 1964 and Rules, 1965

Agricultural Tenancy Act, 1964 and Rules, 1965

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The Goa, Daman and Diu Agricultural Tenancy Act, 1964 regulates land tenure, tenancy relationships, and agricultural land rights across the region. It primarily applies to tenant farmers, agricultural landowners, and local landholding institutions like Comunidades. The law protects agricultural tenants from arbitrary eviction, caps maximum payable rent, grants tillers statutory rights to purchase the land they cultivate, and sets rules for maintaining shared agricultural infrastructure like bunds and watercourses. By securing land rights for actual cultivators and preventing unlawful land conversion, this legislation matters because it fosters rural equity, improves agricultural productivity, and stabilizes farming livelihoods.

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  1. 1. Short title, extent and commencement
  2. 2. Definitions
  3. 3. Extent of application
  4. 4. Persons deemed to be tenants
  5. 5. Right of persons holding on the date of liberation
  6. 5-A. Manner of giving notice under section 13-A(1) and signing readiness to purchase under section 13-A(2)
  7. 5-B. Manner of applying to the Collector under section 13-A (3) and manner of determining price of land under section 13-A (3)
  8. 5-C. Terms on which a loan may be granted under section 13-A(7)
  9. 6. Explanations
  10. 7. Question of tenancy
  11. 7A. Question as to nature of land
  12. 8. Bar to eviction and restoration of possession
  13. 8A. Relief in certain cases of threatened wrongful dispossession
  14. 9. Modes of termination of tenancy
  15. 10. Surrender by tenant
  16. 11. Termination of tenancy by landlord
  17. 12. Special provisions regarding termination for non-payment of rent
  18. 12A. The conditions and the manner in which contributions towards the cost of repairs to bunds shall be made by Government
  19. 13. Tenancy during usufructory mortgage
  20. 13A. Tenant’s right of first purchase
  21. 14. Rights of tenants are heritable.
  22. 15. Sub-division, sub-letting and assignment prohibited.
  23. 15A. Lands mortgaged to Government and co-operative societies.
  24. 16. Bar to attachment, seizure or sale by process of Court.
  25. 17. Repealed
  26. 18. Procedure for taking possession.
  27. 18A. Tenants deemed to have purchased lands on tillers’ day.
  28. 18B. Right of tenant to purchase land where he is a minor, etc.
  29. 18C. Mamlatdar to issue notices and determine price of land to be paid by tenants.
  30. 18D. Purchase price payable to the landlords
  31. 18E. Mode of payment of purchase price by tenant
  32. 18F. Amount of purchase price to be applied towards satisfaction of debts
  33. 18G. Recovery of purchase price as arrears of land revenue
  34. 18H. Purchase to be ineffective on tenant-purchaser’s failure to pay purchase price
  35. 18I. Right of tenant whose tenancy has been created after tillers’ day
  36. 18J. Power of Mamlatdar to resume and dispose of land not purchased by the tenant
  37. 18K. Restrictions on transfers of land purchased under this Chapter
  38. 18L. Power to make rules
  39. 19. CHAPTER III
  40. 20. CHAPTER III
  41. 21. CHAPTER III
  42. 22. CHAPTER III
  43. 23. Maximum Rent
  44. 24. Maximum Rent after Survey & Settlement
  45. 25. Compensation and penalty for excess recovery of rent
  46. 26. Liability for cost cultivation, tax, works etc
  47. 27. Bar to recovery of any other sum from tenant
  48. 28. Benefit of any suspension or remission of rent
  49. 29. General
  50. 30. Presumption as to rent and duty to give receipt
  51. 31. Tenant's right to trees on the land
  52. 32. Compensation for improvements made by tenant
  53. 33. Right to erect farmhouse
  54. 34. Maintenance of boundary marks
  55. 35. Repairs to protective bunds
  56. 36. Power to assume management
  57. 37. Prescription of standards of cultivation and management
  58. 38. Tenant’s right to operate sluice gates
  59. 39. Construction of water course through land belonging to other person
  60. 40. Failure to pay rent to keep water course in good repair
  61. 41. Removal or discontinuance of water course
  62. 42. Neighbouring holder entitled to use surplus water on payment of rate
  63. 42A. Procedure for regulating the discharge of joint responsibility of tenants
  64. 43. Tribunal
  65. 44. Other functions of the Tribunal, etc.
  66. 45. Powers of Tribunal
  67. 46. Commencement of Proceedings
  68. 46A. Powers of the Mamlatdar to inquire into contraventions
  69. 47. Power to transfer proceedings
  70. 48. Execution of order for payment of money or restoring possession
  71. 49. Appeals
  72. 50. Revision
  73. 51. Extent of powers in appeal or revision
  74. 52. Limitation and Court Fees
  75. 53. Procedure
  76. 54. Power to make rules for survey, etc.
  77. 55. Lands held by Comunidades
  78. 56. Exemption
  79. 57. Delegation of powers
  80. 58. Bar to jurisdiction of Courts
  81. 58A. Bar on appearance by Pleaders
  82. 59. Power to give directions
  83. 60. Penalty
  84. 60A. Offences under the Act to be cognizable and compoundable
  85. 60B. Offences by Companies
  86. 61. Rules
  87. 62. Power to remove difficulties
  88. Rule. Provisions relating to section 26
  89. FORM I. Application for recovery of arrears of rent under section 12(2)
  90. FORM I-A. Notice under section 13-A(1)
  91. FORM I-B. Form of communication of readiness to purchase
  92. FORM I-C. Application to Collector under section 13-A(3)
  93. FORM II. Certificate of transfer under section 17(5)
  94. FORM III. Certificate of transfer under section 17(6)
  95. FORM IV. Application for possession under section 18
  96. FORM V. Application for apportionment of rent under section 29(9)
  97. FORM VI. (Rule 10) Notice to be issued to the opponent under Sub-Rule (7) of Rule 10 of the Goa, Daman and Diu Agricultural Tenancy Rules, 1965
  98. FORM VII. (Rule 10) Summons to be issued to a witness under Sub-Rule (8) of Rule 10 of the Goa, Daman and Diu Agricultural Tenancy Rules, 1965
  99. FORM VIII. (Rule 10) Warrant of arrest to be issued in respect of a witness under Sub-Rule (8) of Rule 10 of the Goa, Daman and Diu Agricultural Tenancy Rules, 1965
  100. FORM IX. (Rule 10) Notice to be issued under Sub-Rule (9) of Rule 10 of the Goa, Daman and Diu Agricultural Tenancy Rules, 1965
  101. FORM X. (See Rule 13) Form of receipt
  102. FORM X-A. [See Rule 12A(3)] Public Notice
  103. FORM XI. (See Rule 14) Application for determination of compensation under section 32(1) of the Goa, Daman and Diu Agricultural Tenancy Act, 1964
  104. FORM XII. (See Rule 17) Application to the Mamlatdar for construction of water course under section 30(1) of the Goa, Daman and Diu Agricultural Tenancy Act, 1964
  105. Forms. Forms prescribed under the Rules
  106. FORM XIII. Registering Officer’s monthly return
  107. FORM XIV. Register of Cultivator and Crops
  108. Directives. Directives to be followed by tenants in cultivating lands held by them
  109. Notification. The Goa, Daman and Diu Agricultural Tenancy (Special Rights and Privileges of Tenants) Rules, 1977
  110. Orders. Orders issued by Lieutenant Governor (1962)
  111. Schedule. Schedule of Officers for Revenue Survey

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