The Puducherry Cultivating Tenants Protection Act, 1970
The Puducherry Cultivating Tenants Protection Act, 1970
This Act protects cultivating tenants in the Union territories of Puducherry, Karaikal, and Yanam by preventing landlords from evicting them despite other laws or contracts, except for specific reasons like unpaid rent or land misuse. It establishes a legal mechanism where tenants can deposit rent into court to resolve arrears and determine their rightful tenancy, preventing arbitrary displacement. The law matters because it secures the livelihoods of agricultural workers by providing a fair legal recourse, ensuring that tenancy relies on tangible compliance rather than arbitrary dispossession, while still allowing landlords to recover dues through proper judicial channels.
- 0. Preamble
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 3. Landlords not to evict cultivating tenants
- 4. Right to restoration of possession
- 6. Special privileges for members of the Armed Forces
- 7. Execution of lease
- 8. Bar of jurisdiction of Civil Courts
- 9. Transfer of certain suits to the Revenue Courts by Civil Courts
- 10. Revision by the High Court
- 11. Transfer of application or other proceeding by High Court
- 12. Surrenders
- 13. Abandonment by cultivating tenant
- 14. landlord to take possession in specified cases
- 15. Penalty
- 16. Power to make rules
- 17. Repeal and savings
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