HIMACHAL PRADESH TENANCY AND LAND REFORMS ACT, 1972

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Preliminary (ACT NO. 8 OF 1974)

S.1 Short title, extent and commencement.

S.2 Definitions.

S.3 Tenant having right of occupancy.

S.4 Right of occupancy in land taken in exchange.

S.5 Establishment of right of occupancy on grounds other than those expressly stated in the Act.

S.6 Right of occupancy not to be acquired by joint owner in land held in joint ownership.

S.7 Continuance of the existing occupancy rights.

S.8 Right of occupancy not to be acquired by mere lapse of time.

S.9 Respective rights of landowner and tenant to produce.

S.10 Commutation of rent payable in kind.

S.11 Disposal of application.

S.13 Collection of rents of undivided property.

S.14 Presumption with respect to produce removed before division or appraisement.

S.15 Appointment of referee for division or appraisement.

S.16 Appointment of assessors and procedure of referee.

S.17 Procedure after division or appraisement.

S.18 Reduction of rents.

S.19 Time for reduction to take effect.

S.20 Maximum limit for rent.

S.21 Adjustment of rents expressed in terms of the land revenue.

S.22 Alteration of rent on alteration of area.

S.23 Remission of rent by Court decreeing arrears.

S.24 Remission and suspension of rent consequent on like treatment of land revenue.

S.25 Duty of landowner to furnish receipt for rent received from tenant.

S.26 Power to deposit rent in certain cases with the Revenue Officer.

S.27 Effect of depositing rent.

S.28 Recovery of rent from attached produce.

S.29 Treatment of leases for period exceeding or equal to term of assessment of land revenue.

S.30 Leases.

S.31 Relinquishment.

S.32 .

S.33 .

S.34 Grounds of ejectment of tenants.

S.35 Certain mortgagees to be deemed as tenants under the Act.

S.36 Tenant's right to water.

S.37 Restriction on ejectment.

S.38 Application to Revenue Officer for ejectment.

S.39 Ejectment for failure to satisfy decree for arrear of rent.

S.40 Time for ejectment.

S.41 Relief against forfeiture.

S.42 Rights of ejected tenants in respect of crops and land prepared for sowing.

S.43 Relief for wrongful dispossession or ejectment.

S.44 Penalty for wrongful dispossession.

S.45 Succession to right of tenancy.

S.46 Right of tenants to make improvement on land.

S.47 Improvements made before the commencement of this Act.

S.48 Improvements begun in anticipation of ejectment.

S.49 Liability to pay compensation for improvements to tenant on ejectment or enhancement of his rent.

S.50 Compensation for disturbance of clearing tenants.

S.51 Determination of compensation by Revenue Courts.

S.52 Determination of compensation by Revenue Officer.

S.53 Matter to be regarded in assessment for improvements.

S.54 Form of compensation.

S.55 Relief in case of ejectment before determination of compensation.

S.56 Revenue Officers.

S.57 Applications and proceedings cognizable by Revenue Officer.

S.58 Revenue Courts and suits cognizable by them.

S.59 Superintendence and control of Revenue Officers and Revenue Courts.

S.60 Power to distribute business and withdraw and transfer cases.

S.61 Appeals

S.62 Limitation for appeals.

S.63 Review by Revenue Officers.

S.64 Computation of period limited for appeals and applications for review.

S.65 Power to call for, examine and revise proceedings of Revenue Officers and Revenue Courts.

S.66 Procedure of Revenue Officer.

S.67 Persons by whom appearances may be made before Revenue Officers as such and not as Revenue Courts.

S.68 Costs.

S.69 Procedure of Revenue Courts.

S.70 Power of Revenue Officer or Revenue Courts to summon persons.

S.71 Mode of service of summons.

S.72 Mode of service of notice, order or proclamation, or copy thereof.

S.73 Additional mode of publishing proclamation.

S.74 Joinder of tenants as parties to proceedings relating to rent.

S.75 Exception of suits under this Act from operation of certain enactments.

S.76 Payment into court of money admitted to be due to a third person.

S.77 Execution of decrees for arrears of rent.

S.78 Prohibition of imprisonment of tenants in execution of decrees for arrears of rent.

S.79 Power to refer party to Civil Court.

S.80 Power to, refer to High Court questions as to jurisdiction.