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The Goa Mundkars (Protection from Eviction) Act, 1975

Civil197544 sections4 chapters

This law protects people called mundkars, who live in houses on land owned by bhatkars, from being evicted without proper reason. It gives them the right to buy their homes and the land around them at a fair price. The Act also aims to change the old system where mundkars had to work for free on the land and replace it with paid work. It applies to the district of Goa, ensuring that tenants have security of tenure and a path to ownership.

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Chapter I Chapter I →

  1. 1Short title, extent and commencement.
  2. 2Definitions.

Chapter II Chapter II →

  1. 3Rights of a mundkar to be heritable.
  2. 4Bar to eviction from a dwelling house and restoration of possession.
  3. 5Relief in certain cases of threatened wrongful dispossession.
  4. 6Right of mundkar to enjoy supply of power or water or any customary easement, etc
  5. 7Mundkar to have right to repair, maintain and improve his dwelling house.
  6. 7AMundkar to have right to reconstruct, rebuild his dwelling house.
  7. 8Mundkar to have right to use the dwelling house for business, etc.
  8. 8ADeclaration of right.
  9. 9Transfer of property by bhatkar.
  10. 10Lease holder of a mundkar how to be dealt.
  11. 11Free services by mundkars to be abolished.
  12. 12Grounds on which a mundkar can be evicted from his dwelling house.
  13. 13Transfer of pending suit or other proceedings for eviction.
  14. 14Surrender by mundkar.
  15. 15Right of mundkar to purchase the dwelling house.
  16. 16Procedure for purchase under section 15.
  17. 17Mundkar’s right to alienate.
  18. 18Grant of loan by Government to a mundkar regarding his dwelling house.
  19. 19Bar to attachment, seizure or sale by process of court.

Chapter III Chapter III →

  1. 20Commencement of proceedings.
  2. 21Execution of order for payment of money or restoring possession.
  3. 22Power to transfer proceedings.
  4. 23Appeal.
  5. 24Revision.
  6. 25Extent of powers in appeal or revision.
  7. 26Powers of Civil Courts to be exercised in conduct of inquiries and proceedings under this Act
  8. 27Limitation and court fees.
  9. 28Register of mundkars.
  10. 29Presumptive value of the record.

Chapter IV Chapter IV →

  1. 30Protection of action taken under the Act and bar of jurisdiction of Courts.
  2. 31Suits involving issues required to be decided under this Act.
  3. 32Bar on appearance by pleaders.
  4. 33Penalty.
  5. 34Offences by companies.
  6. 35Power to give directions.
  7. 36Delegation of powers.
  8. 37Act to over-ride other laws, etc.
  9. 37BDisposal of proceedings.
  10. 38Exemptions.
  11. 39Power to make rules.
  12. 40Repeal and saving.

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