section 29
Recovery of land revenue, etc., from tenants and their rights to set off same against rent
The Pepsu Tenancy and Agricultural Land Act, 1955Civil195547 sections
Statutory text
- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in any other law for the time being in force, the amount of land revenue (including surcharge, special charge, additional surcharge or special assessment), or of acreage rates, or of betterment charges, or of any other tax (including rates and cesses), payable under any law for the time being in force in respect of any land, the proprietary rights of which a person under this Chapter is entitled to acquire, may be recovered from such person.
- (2) Where any amount has been recovered from a person under sub-section (1), such person shall be entitled to set off such amount against the rent payable in respect of such land. 29-A. Rights of landowners in certain cases to enforce acquisition of proprietary rights by tenants
- (1) Where a person entitled under this Chapter to acquire proprietary rights in respect of the land comprising his tenancy fails to make an application under sub-section
- (2) of section 22, within a period of one year from the commencement of the Pepsu Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Second Amendment) Act, 1962, an application containing the particulars specified therein may be made in writing to the prescribed authority in the prescribed manner by the landowner requiring such person to acquire proprietary rights in such land in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.
- (2) The application under sub-section
- (1) shall be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter as if it were an application made by a person under sub-section
- (2) of section 22 and the provisions of section 25 shall apply to the order made under sub-section
- (2) of section 23 in respect of such application.
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