Kerala Compensation for Tenants Improvements Act, 1958
Kerala Compensation for Tenants Improvements Act, 1958
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This law protects tenants in Kerala by ensuring they are paid for any valuable improvements they make to the land they rent. It covers things like building houses, digging wells, or planting trees. If a tenant is evicted, the law presumes these improvements were made unless proven otherwise. The tenant is entitled to compensation for these improvements before losing possession. Courts will only evict a tenant if the landlord pays the compensation amount into the court first. This ensures that tenants are not unfairly deprived of the value they added to the property.
- 0. Preamble
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. What are presumed to be improvements
- 4. Tenant entitled to compensation for improvements
- 5. Decree in eviction to be conditional on payment of compensation
- 6. Tenant's right to remove buildings, works or trees deemed not improvements
- 7. Improvement producing an increase in the value of the annual net produce
- 8. Trees or plants spontaneously grown
- 9. Other kinds of improvements
- 10. Value of improvement to be ascertained in the way most favourable to the tenant.
- 11. Improvement consisting in protection and maintenance of trees and plants.
- 12. Power to frame tables of maximum and minimum rates of compensation.
- 13. Power to prepare tables of prices of produce, etc.
- 14. Values how ascertained when no table has been prepared or the presumption is rebutted.
- 15. Tables to be published.
- 16. Compensation when area is overplanted.
- 17. Contracts affecting tenant's right to make improvements.
- 18. Repeal.
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