PUBLIC DEMANDS

1. Any arrear of revenue which remains due in the following circumstances, namely: (i) When under the provisions of the Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms Act, 1960 (No. 33 of 1960), or any other law for the time being in force, an estate or tenure, or any share of an estate or tenure has been sold for the recovery of arrears of revenue due thereupon and after deducting the expenses of such sale, the balance of the sale-proceeds remaining is insufficient to liquidate the arrears of revenue in discharge of which such sale proceeds may, under the said provisions, be applied. 2. Any arrear of revenue which is due from a farmer on account of an estate held by him in farm and is not paid on the latest day of payment fixed under the said Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms Act, 1960 (No. 33 of 1960). 3. Any money which is declared by any law for the time being in force to be recoverable or realizable as an arrear of revenue or land-revenue or by any process authorized for the recovery of arrears of revenue or of the public revenue or of Government revenue. 4. Any money which is declared by any enactment for the time being in force to be a demand or a public demand or to be recoverable as arrears of a demand or public demand, or to be recoverable under the Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms Act, 1960. 5. Any money due from the sureties of a farmer in respect of the revenue estate farmed by him. 6. Any money awarded as fees or costs by a Revenue authority under any law or any rule having the force of law. 7. Any demand payable to the Deputy Commissioner by a person holding any interest in land, pasturage, forest, rights, fisheries or the like, whether such interest is or is not transferable, when such demand is a condition of the use and enjoyment of such land, pasturage, forest, rights, fisheries or the like. 8. In the case of property which, under the provision of any law for the time being in force, is under the management of, or is situated by the Court of Wards or the Revenue authorities on behalf of a private individual, any arrear of rent or of any demand which is recoverable as rent, whether such arrear became due before or after the management devolved upon such court or such authorities. 9. Any money payable to Government or to an officer of Government in repayment of a loan in cash or in kind, in respect of which money, the person to whom the loan in cash or in kind was advanced, as agreed by a written instrument that such money shall be recoverable as a public demand. 10. Any money payable to a society registered or deemed to have been registered under the Manipur Societies Registration Act, 1989, when such money is furnished jointly by the State Government and the Central Government and is granted by such society as subsidy or loan to a person who agrees by a written instrument, registered or unregistered, that such money shall be recoverable as a public demand. 11. Any sum due to a land mortgage bank registered under the Manipur Co-operative Societies Act, 1976 or any sum due to an assignee of such bank in respect of any principal sum or any interest thereon under a mortgage made to the bank. 12. Any money due from a purchaser at a sale held in execution of a certificate under this Act, whether the sale is subsisting or not. 13. Any money payable to a local authority. 14. Any money awarded as costs by the High Court at Guwahati/Imphal Bench in proceedings under article 226 of Constitution of India relating to matters arising outside its ordinary original civil jurisdiction. 15. Any sum payable to the Government by a person on account of use or occupation by such person of any house, tenement or room belonging to the Government. 16. Any money payable to a Government company wholly owned either by the State Government or by the Central Government or jointly by the State Government and the Central Government. 17. Any money fixed as water rate, electricity tariff, motor vehicles taxes, professional tax, sales tax etc. by the Government under any statutory Act or Rule in force in the State. 18. Any amount due to a bank or a financial institution from any person in respect of any amount advanced or granted under any scheme in the form of financial assistance shall, apart from any other mode of recovery, be recoverable under provisions of this Act. Provided that no proceeding under this Act shall be proceeded with simultaneously before any other forum for recovering the amount that is the subject matter of the certificate. Explanation-The dues referred to above shall also apply to any amount advanced or granted by way of any such loan before the date on which this Act comes into force and remaining unpaid on such day.