DELHI LAND REFORMS ACT, 1954

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S.1 Short title, extent and commencement

S.2 Repeal

S.3 Definition

S.4 Classes of tenure and sub tenure

S.5 Bhumidhar

S.6 Assami

S.7 Rights of proprietor in waste lands of common utility etc. to vest in Gaon Sabha and compensation to be paid for the-

S.8 Private wells, trees in Abadi and buildings

S.9 Power to make rules

S.10 Tenant of Sir and Sub-tenant of occupancy tenants under Section 5 of the Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, and sub-tenants of tenants holding land with Patta Dawami or Istamrari and having right of transfer by sale

S.11 Declaration of Bhumidhari Rights in favour of proprietors and superior class of tenants, compensation and land revenue

S.12 Sub-tenants of occupancy or ex proprietory tenants, etc.

S.13 Bhumidhari rights in other cases

S.14 Compensation and land revenue payable by Bhumidhars declared as such under Section 13

S.15 Estate in possession of a mortgagee with possession

S.16 Consequences of acquisition of Bhumidhari rights by mortgages etc. Under Section 15

S.17 Variation in rent on or after July 1,1950. not to be recognized

S.18 Contract agreement or eviction to defeat provisions of this Act to be void

S.19 Cesses, local rate and sayar

S.20 Stay of Suits

S.21 Stay of proceeding

S.22 Right of Bhumidhar or Asami to the exclusive possession of land in his holding

S.23 Use of holding for industrial purposes

S.24 Reversion of agriculture

S.25 Registration of the sanction or declaration under Section 23 or 25

S.26 Restriction on improvements

S.27 Works benefiting other land

S.28 Right to compensation for improvement made by an Asami

S.29 Determination of the amount of compensation

S.30 Court to assess the compensation for improvements

S.31 Interest of a Bhumidhar to be transferable

S.32 Interest of an Asami not transferable

S.33 Restrictions on the Transfers by a Bhumidhar

S.34 Only simple mortgage of land by a Bhumidhar Allowed

S.35 Letting of land

S.36 Lease by a Disabled Person

S.37 Registration of a lease

S.38 Failure to register the lease under Section 37

S.39 Successor in interest bound by a lease

S.40 Exchange

S.41 Land revenue not affected by exchange

S.42 Transfer in contravention to Section 33

S.43 Transfer with possession by a Bhumidhar to be deemed a sale

S.44 Effect of lease in contravention of Section 36

S.45 Transfer made in Contravention of this Chapter to be void

S.46 .

S.47 Consequences of ejectment under Section 46

S.48 Bequest by a Bhumidhar

S.49 Bequest by an Asami

S.50 General order of succession from males

S.51 Succession in the case of a woman holding an interest inherited as widow, mother, daughter, etc

S.52 Succession in the case of a holding inherited as fathers father

S.53 Succession to a woman holding an interest otherwise

S.54 Passing of interest by survivorship

S.55 Holding of a Bhumidhar partable

S.56 One suit for partition of several holdings

S.57 Mode of partition of holding

S.58 Valuation of the holding to be sold

S.59 Preferential right of purchase

S.60 Sale in default of purchase under Section 59

S.61 Procedure in sale

S.62 Surrender of holding by Asami

S.63 Notice of surrender

S.64 Abandonment

S.65 Admission of Asami to the holding of a disabled Bhumidhar

S.65(A) Consequences where Bhumidhar Asami leaves land uncultivated

S.66 Entry upon an abandoned holding

S.67 Extinction of the Interest of a Bhumidhar

S.68 Extinction of the interest of an Asami

S.69 Extinction of the interest of an Asami on extinction of the interest of the Bhumidhar

S.70 Merger

S.71 Rights and liabilities of Bhumidhars or Asami on extinction of his interest

S.72 Gaon Sabha to take over land after extinction of interest therein

S.73 Admission to land

S.74 Admission to land mentioned in sub-clause (iii) of clause (a) of Section 6 or to waste land for reclamation

S.75 Order of preference in admitting persons to land under Sections 73 and 74

S.76 Bhumidar not liable to ejectment

S.77 Ejectment of Asami

S.78 Rights to crops and trees when Ejectment takes effect

S.79 Failure to institute a suit for ejectment under Section 77 or execute the decree obtained thereunder