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The Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887

The Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887

Civil1887112 sections8 chapters

The Punjab Tenancy Act of 1887 comprehensively regulates the legal and financial relationship between agricultural landlords and their tenants across the Punjab region. It applies specifically to landowners and the working farmers who rent or occupy land for agricultural purposes. This legislation matters immensely because it brings vital stability to the local farming economy by strictly protecting tenants, especially long-term occupancy tenants, from arbitrary eviction and unfair rent hikes. Furthermore, it strongly guarantees that tenants receive fair financial compensation for their agricultural improvements upon eviction. Finally, it establishes specialized Revenue Courts to peacefully and fairly resolve complex rural land disputes.

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Chapter I PRELIMINARY →

    Chapter II RIGHT OF OCCUPANCY →

    1. 5Tenants having right of occupancy
    2. 6Right of occupancy of other tenants recorded as having the right before passing of Punjab Tenancy Act, 1868
    3. 7Right of occupancy in land taken in exchange
    4. 8Establishment of right of occupancy on grounds other than those expressly stated in Act
    5. 9Right of occupancy not to be acquired by mere lapse of time
    6. 10Right of occupancy not to be acquired by joint owner in land held in joint ownership
    7. 11Continuance of exciting occupancy rights

    Chapter III CHAPTER III →

    1. 12Respective rights of landlord and tenant to produce
    2. 13Commutation and alteration of rent
    3. 14Payments for land occupied without consent of landlord
    4. 15Collection of rents of undivided property
    5. 16Presumption with respect to produce remove before division of appraisement
    6. 17Appointment of referee for division or appraisement
    7. 18Appointment of assessors and procedure of referee
    8. 19Procedure after division or appraisement
    9. 20Enhancement of produce-rents of occupancy tenants
    10. 21Reduction of rents refereed to in the last foregoing section
    11. 22Enhancement of cash rents of occupancy tenants
    12. 23Reduction of rents referred to in the last foregoing section
    13. 24Enhancement and reduction of rent by suit
    14. 25Discretion as to extent of enhancement or reduction
    15. 26Time for enhancement or reduction to take effect
    16. 27Adjustment of rents expressed in terms of the land-revenue
    17. 28Alteration of rent on alteration of area
    18. 29Remission of rent by Courts decreeing arrears
    19. 30Remission and suspension of rent consequent on like treatment of land revenue
    20. 31Power to deposit rent in certain cases with Revenue-officer
    21. 32Effect of depositing rent
    22. 33Recovery of Rent from attached produce
    23. 34Treatment of leases for period exceeding or equal to term of assessment of land-revenue
    24. 35Relinquishment by tenant for a fixed term
    25. 36Relinquishment by any other tenant
    26. 37Relinquishment of part only of tenancy
    27. 38Abandonment of tenancy be occupancy tenant
    28. 39Grounds of ejectment of occupancy tenant
    29. 40Grounds of ejectment of tenant for a fixed term
    30. 41Ejectment of tenant from year to year
    31. 42Restriction on ejectment
    32. 43Application to Revenue-officer for ejectment
    33. 44Ejectment for failure to satisfy decree for arrear of rent
    34. 45Ejectment of tenant from year to year by notice
    35. 46Power to make rules

    Chapter IV CHAPTER IV →

    1. 47Time for ejectment
    2. 48Relief against forfeiture
    3. 49Rights of ejected tenants in respect of crops and land prepared for sowing
    4. 50Relief for wrongful dispossession or ejectment
    5. 51Bar of relief by under section 9, Act I, 1877
    6. 52Power for Local Government to fix dates for certain purposes

    Chapter V CHAPTER V →

    1. 53Private transfer of right of occupancy under section 5 by tenant
    2. 54Procedure on foreclosure of mortgage of right of occupancy under section 5
    3. 55Sale of right of occupancy under section 5 in execution of decree
    4. 56Transfer of right of occupancy under any other section than section 5
    5. 57Rights and liabilities of transferee of right of occupancy
    6. 58Subletting
    7. 59Succession to right of occupancy
    8. 60Irregular transfer of right of occupancy
    9. 61Improvements by landlords on tenancies of occupancy-tenants

    Chapter VI CHAPTER VI →

    1. 62Enhancement of rent in consideration of an improvement made by a landlord on the tenancy of an occupancy-tenant
    2. 68Liability to pay compensation for improvements to tenant on ejectment or on enhancement of his rent.
    3. 69Compensation for disturbance of clearing tenants.
    4. 70Determination of compensation by Revenue Courts.
    5. 71Determination of compensation by Revenue-officers.
    6. 72Matters to be regarded in assessment of compensation for improvements.
    7. 73Form of compensation.
    8. 63Title of occupancy-tenant to make improvements.
    9. 64Title of tenants not having right of occupancy to make improvements.
    10. 65Improvements made before commencement of this Act.
    11. 66Improvements begun in anticipation of ejectment.
    12. 67Tender of lease for twenty years to tenant to be a bar to right to compensation.
    13. 74Relief in case of ejectment before determination of compensation.

    Chapter VII CHAPTER VII →

    1. 75Revenue-officers.
    2. 76Applications and proceedings cognizable by Revenue-officers.
    3. 77Revenue Court an suit cognizable by them
    4. 78Superintendence and control of Revenue-officers and Revenue Courts
    5. 79Power to distribute business and withdraw and transfer cases
    6. 80Appeals
    7. 81Limitation for appeals
    8. 82Review by Revenue-officers
    9. 83Computation of periods limited for appeals and applications for review
    10. 84Power to call for examine and revise proceedings of Revenue-officers and Revenue Courts
    11. 85Procedure of Revenue-officers
    12. 86Persons by whom appearance, may be made before Revenue-officers as such and not as Revenue Courts
    13. 101Place of sitting
    14. 102Holidays
    15. 103Discharge of duties of Collector dying or being disabled
    16. 104Retention of powers by Revenue-officer on transfer
    17. 105Conferment of power of Revenue-officer or Revenue Court
    18. 106Power for Financial Commissioner to make rules
    19. 107Rules to be made after previous publication
    20. 108Powers exercisable by Financial Commissioner from time to time
    21. 87Costs
    22. 88Procedure of Revenue-Courts
    23. 89Power of Revenue, officer or Revenue Court to summon persons
    24. 90Mode of service of summons
    25. 91Mode of service of notice, order or proclamation or copy thereof
    26. 92mode of making proclamation
    27. 93Joinder of tenants as parties to proceedings relating to rent
    28. 94Exception of suits under this Act from operation of certain enactments
    29. 95Payment into Court of money admitted to be due to third person
    30. 96Execution of decrees for arrears of rent
    31. 97Prohibition of imprisonment of tenants in execution of decrees for arrear of rent
    32. 98Power to refer party to Civil Court
    33. 99Power to refer to Chief Court questions as to jurisdiction
    34. 100Power of Chief Court to validate proceedings held under mistake as to jurisdiction

    Chapter VIII EFFECT OF THIS ACT ON RECORDS-OF-RIGHTS AND AGREEMENTS. →

    1. 109Nullity of certain entries in records-of-rights
    2. 110Nullity of certain agreements contrary to the Act
    3. 111Saving of other agreements when in writing
    4. 112Effect of certain entries made in records-of-rights before November 1871

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