PUNJAB TENANCY ACT, 1887

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Preliminary .

S.1 Title, extent and commencement

S.2 Power to make rules in anticipation of Commencement

S.3 Repeal

S.4 Definitions

S.5 Tenants having right of occupancy

S.6 Right of occupancy of other tenants recorded as having the right before passing of Punjab Tenancy Act, 1868

S.7 Right of occupancy in land taken in exchange

S.8 Establishment of right of occupancy on ground other than those expressly stated in Act

S.9 Right of occupancy not to be acquired by mere lapse of time

S.10 Right of occupancy not to be acquired by joint owner in land held in joint ownership

S.11 Continuance of existing occupancy rights

S.12 Respective rights of landlord and tenant to produce

S.13 Commutation and alteration of rent

S.14 Payments for land occupied without consent of landlord

S.15 Collection of rents of undivided property

S.16 Presumption with respect to produce removed before division or appraisement

S.17 Appointment of referee for division or appraisement

S.18 Appointment of assessors and procedure of referee

S.19 Procedure after division or appraisement

S.20 Enhancement of produce rents of occupancy tenants

S.21 Reduction of rents referred to in the last foregoing Section

S.22 Enhancement of cash rents of occupancy tenants

S.23 Reduction of rents referred to in the last foregoing section

S.24 Enhancement and reduction of rent by suits

S.25 Discretion as to extent of enhancement or reduction

S.26 Time for enhancement or reduction to take effect

S.27 Adjustment of rents expressed in terms of the land revenue

S.27(a) .

S.28 Alteration of rent on alteration of area

S.29 Remission of rent by Courts decreeing arrears

S.30 Remission and suspension of rent consequent on like treatment of land revenue

S.31 Power to deposit rent in certain cases with Revenue Officer

S.32 Effect of depositing rent

S.33 Recovery of rent from attached produce

S.34 Treatment of leases for period exceeding or equal to term of assessment of land revenue

S.35 Relinquishment by tenant for a fixed term

S.36 Relinquishment by any other tenant

S.37 Relinquishment of part only of tenancy

S.38 Abandonment of tenancy by occupancy tenant

S.39 Grounds of ejectment of occupancy tenant

S.40 Grounds of ejectment of tenant for a fixed term

S.41 Ejectment of tenant form year to year

S.42 Restriction on ejectment

S.43 Application to Revenue Officer for ejectment

S.44 Ejectment for failure to satisfy decree for arrear of rent

S.45 Ejectment of tenant from year to year by notice

S.46 Power to make rules

S.47 Time for ejectment

S.48 Relief against forfeiture

S.49 Rights of ejected tenants in respect of crops and land prepared for sowing

S.50 Relief for wrongful dispossession or ejectment

S.50(a) Bar to civil suits

S.51 Bar of relief by suit under Section 9, Act 1 of 1877

S.52 Power of State Government to fix date for certain purposes

S.52(a) .

S.53 Private transfer of right of occupancy under Section 5 by tenant

S.54 Procedure on foreclosure of mortgage of right of occupancy under section 5

S.55 Sale of right of occupancy under section 5 in execution of decree

S.56 Transfer of right of occupancy under any other section than section 5

S.57 Right and liabilities of transferee of right of occupancy

S.58 Subletting

S.58(a) Transfer of right of occupancy under any section of the Act by exchange

S.59 Succession to right of occupancy

S.60 Irregular transfers of right of occupancy

S.61 Improvements by landlords on tenancies of occupancy tenants

S.62 Enhancement of rent in consideration of an improvement made by a landlord on the tenancy of an occupancy tenant

S.63 Title of occupancy tenant to make improvements

S.64 Title of tenants not having the right of occupancy to make improvements

S.65 Improvements made before commencement of this Act

S.66 Improvements begun in anticipation of ejectment

S.67 Tender of lease for twenty years to tenant to be a bar to right to compensation

S.68 Liability to pay compensation for improvements to tenants on ejectment or on enhancement of his rent

S.69 Compensation for disturbance of clearing tenants

S.70 Determination of compensation by Revenue Courts

S.71 Determination of compensation of Revenue Officer

S.72 Matters to be regarded in assessment of compensation for improvements

S.73 Forum of compensation

S.74 Relief in case of ejectment before determination of compensation

S.75 Revenue Officers