The Tamil Nadu Cultivating Tenants (Payment of Fair Rent) Act, 1956
The Tamil Nadu Cultivating Tenants (Payment of Fair Rent) Act, 1956
The Tamil Nadu Cultivating Tenants (Payment of Fair Rent) Act, 1956, is a piece of agrarian legislation designed to regulate the relationship between landowners and tenant farmers in Tamil Nadu. Its primary objective is to protect cultivating tenants from exploitation by capping the "fair rent" payable for agricultural land at 25% of the normal gross produce. The Act establishes a specialized dispute resolution mechanism through Rent Courts and Rent Tribunals, ensuring that rent disputes are handled outside the standard civil court system. It provides clear rules for rent payment, adjustments during poor harvests, and the rights of both parties, thereby promoting stability in the agricultural sector.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Interpretation
- 3. Rights and liabilities of cultivating tenant and land - owner
- 4. What is fair rent
- 5. Fair rent may be in cash or in kind
- 6. Alteration or revision of fair rent
- 7. Sharing of produce
- 8. Construction of Rent Courts and Rent Tribunal
- 9. Application to Rent Courts and appeals to Rent Tribunals
- 10. Costs
- 11. Revision by High Court
- 12. Collector to publish list of prices
- 13. Act to override contract and other laws, etc
- 14. Surrender of land in excess of certain extent
- 15. Exemption
- 16. Act to over-ride Madras Act XIV of 1952
- 17. Power to make rules
- 18. Power to remove difficulties
- 19. Act not to apply to lands owned by Central Government, State Governments, etc
- 4.A. Kaiaeruvaramdar or a mattuvaramdar deemed to be a cultivating tenant
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