Distress and sale of movable property and crops

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(1) At any time after an arrear of land revenue has accrued, the movable property and uncut or ungathered crops of the defaulter may be distrained and sold by order of a Revenue officer, not below the rank of Tehsildar.
(2) The distress and sale shall be conducted, as nearly as may be, in accordance with the law for the time being in force for the attachment and sale of movable property under the decree of a Civil Court : Provided that, in addition to the particulars exempted by that law from liability to sale, so much of the produce of the land of the defaulter as the Tehsildar thinks necessary for seed grain and for the subsistence, until the harvest next following, of the defaulter and his family, and of any cattle exempted by that law, shall be exempted from sale under this section.

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