GUJARAT TENANCY AND AGRICULTURAL LANDS ACT, 1948

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S.1 Short title and extent

S.2 Definitions

S.3 Application of chapter V of Transfer of Property Act

S.4 Persons to be deemed tenants

S.4(A) Protected tenants

S.4(B) Tenancy not to be terminated by efflux of time

S.5 Celling area

S.6 Econmic-holding

S.6(A) Irrigated land

S.7 Power of Government to vary ceiling area and economic holding

S.8 Rent and its maximum and minimum

S.9 Rate of rent payable by tenant to his landlord

S.9(A) Quantum of rent payable by tenant to landload

S.9(B) landload not liable to make contribution towards cost of cultivation

S.9(C) Liability of tenant to payment until rent is fixed under preceding sections

S.10 Refund of rent recovered in contravention of the provisions of the Act and other penalties

S.10(A) Liability of tenant to pay land revenue and certain other cesses

S.11 Abolition of all cesses, etc.

S.12 Deleted

S.13 Suspension or remission of rent

S.14 Termination of tenancy for default of tenant

S.15 Surrender by tenant

S.16 Bar to eviction from dwelling house

S.17 Tenant to be given first option of purchasing site on which he has built dwelling house

S.17(A) Tenant's right to purchase site referred to in section 16

S.17(B) Tenant to be deemed to have purchased to in section 16 from specified date

S.18 Dwelling houses of agricultural labourers, etc.

S.19 Tenant's right to trees planted by him

S.20 Right to produce of naturally growing trees

S.21 Deleted

S.22 Tenants responsible for maintenance of boundary marks

S.23 Repairs of protective bunds

S.24 Relief against termination of tenancy in certain cases

S.25 Relief against termination of tenancy for non-payment of rent

S.25(a) Tenancy to be in abeyance during usufructuary mortgage in favour of tenant mortgage in favour of tenant

S.26 Receipts for rent

S.27 Sub-division, sub-letting and assignment prohibited

S.28 Bar to attachment, seizure or sale by process of Court

S.29 Procedure of taking possession

S.29(A) Provisions of section 29 to apply to sites used for allied pursuits

S.30 Rights and privileges of tenants not to be affected

S.31 Landlord's right to terminate tenancy for personal cultivation and non-agricultural purpose

S.31(A) Conditions of termination of tenancy

S.31(b) No termination of tenancy in contravention of Bom. LXII of 1947 or if tenant is member of co-operative farming society

S.31(c) Landlord not entitled to terminate tenancy for personal cultivation of land left with tenant

S.31(d) Approtionment of rent after termination of tenancy for land left with tenant

S.32 Tenants deemed to have purposed land on tillers day

S.32(a) Tenants deemed to have purchased up to celling area

S.32(b) When tenants not deemed to have purchased lands

S.32(c) When tenants entitled to choose lands to be purchased

S.32(d) When tenants deemed to have purchased fragments

S.32(e) Disposal of balance of lands after purchase by tenant

S.32(f) Right of tenant to purchase where landlord is minor, etc.

S.32(f)(f) Tenant in possession who has surrendered tenancy to be deemed to have purchased land on specified

S.32(g) Tribunal to issue notices and determine price of land to be paid by tenants

S.32(h) Purchase price and its maxima

S.32(i) Sub-tenant of permanent to be deemed to have purchased land

S.32(j) Deleted

S.32(k) Mode of payment of price by tenant

S.32(l) Purchase price recoverable as arrear of land revenue

S.32(m) Purchase to be ineffective on tenant's failure to pay purchase price in lump sum or instalments within given period

S.32(n) Landlord's right to recover rent when purchase becomes ineffective

S.32(o) Right of tenant whose tenancy is created after tiller's day to purchase land

S.32(p) Power of Collector to resume and dispose of land not purchased by tenants and appeal against Collector's order

S.32(p)(p) Further opportunity to tenant to purchase land

S.323(p)(p)(p) Further opportunity to purchase land to tenants whose purchase became ineffective after commencement of Guj. 36 of 1965

S.32(q) Amount of purchase price to be applied towards satisfaction of debts

S.32(q)(q) Deposit or payment of purchase price by State Government on behalf of specified tenant

S.32(r) Purchaser to be evicted if he fails to cultivate personally

S.32(s) Definitions

S.32(t) Special right of certified landlord to terminate tenancy for personal cultivation

S.32(u) Tenants of lands mentioned in section 88C to be deemed to have purchased land and other incidental provisions

S.33 Right of * * * tenants to exchange land

S.34 Deleted

S.34(a) Holders of land to furnish particulars of land to Mamlatdar

S.35 Deleted

S.36 Fragment in excess of economic holding or ceiling area may be permitted to remain with holder

S.37 Landlord to restore possession if he fails to cultivate within one year

S.38 Deleted

S.39 Application for recover of possession by tenant