The Balochistan Tenancy Ordinance
Balochistan Acts · Balochistan · 1978 · Balochistan Ordinance XXIV of 1978
Legal status
In force
Effective date
1978-12-27
Sections
104
Preliminary
- 1: Short title, extent and commencement
- 2: Definition CHAPTER – II CLASSES OF TENANTS
- 3: Tenants having rights of occupancy
- 4: Right of occupancy in land taken in exchange
- 5: Establishment of right of occupancy on grounds other than expressly stated in Ordinance
- 6: Right of occupancy not to be acquired by more lapse of time
- 7: Right of occupancy not to be acquired by joint owner in land held in joint ownership
- 8: Lathband tenants
- 9: Tenants at will CHAPTER – III RENT RENTS GENERALLY
- 10: Rights and liabilities regarding rent and Government dues
- 11: Commutation and alteration of rent
- 12: Payments for land occupied without consent of landlord
- 13: Collection of rent of undivided property
- 14: Presumption with respect to produce removed before division
- 15: Finality of the decision of the officer conducting the division
- 16: Cost of Division
- 17: Enhancement of produce rents of occupancy tenants and lathband tenants
- 18: Reduction of rents referred to in the last foregoing section
- 19: Enhancement and reduction of rent by suit
- 20: Discretion as to extent of enhancement or reduction
- 21: Time for enhancement or reduction to take effect
- 22: Alteration of rent or alteration of area
- 23: Remission of rent by Courts decreeing arrears
- 24: Power to deposit rent in certain cases with Revenue Officer
- 25: Effect of depositing rent
- 26: Recovery of rent from attached produce CHAPTER – IV RELINQUISHMENT, ABANDONMENT AND EJECTMENT RELINQUISHMENT
- 27: Relinquishment by tenant for a fixed term
- 28: Relinquishment by any other tenant
- 29: Relinquishment of part only of a tenancy
- 30: Abandonment of tenancy by occupancy tenant
- 31: Grounds of ejectment of occupancy tenant
- 32: Grounds of ejectment of lathband tenant PROCEDURE ON EJECTMENT
- 33: Cognizance of ejectment suit
- 34: Application for ejectment of tenant
- 35: Rule of Procedure
- 36: Contents of order of the court
- 37: Execution of order of ejectment
- 38: Time for ejectment
- 39: Notice of ejectment
- 40: Relief against for foreiture
- 41: Relief for wrongful dispossession or ejectment
- 42: Bar of relief by suit under section 9 Act I 1877
- 43: Power for Local Government to fix dates for certain purposes
- 44: Grounds of ejectment of tenaney at will CHAPTER – V ALIENATION, AND SUCCESSION TO RIGHT OF OCCUPANCY
- 45: Private transfer of tight of occupancy under section 3 by tenant
- 46: Procedure on foreclosure of mortgagee of night of occupancy under section 3
- 47: Sale of right of occupancy under section 3 in execution of decree
- 48: Right and liabilities of transferee of light of occupancy
- 49: Sub-letting
- 50: Succession to right of occupancy
- 51: Irregular transfer of right of occupancy by tenants CHAPTER – V-A
- 52: Transfer of a succession to the rights of lathband tenants CHAPTER – VI IMPROVEMENTS AND COMPENSATION
- 53: Improvements by landlords in tenancies of occupancy and lathband tenants
- 54: Enhancement of rent in consideration of an improvement made by a landlord on the tenancy of an occupancy tenant and lathband tenant
- 55: Title of occupancy tenant to make improvements
- 56: Title of lathband tenants to make improvements
- 57: Title of tenants at will to make improvements
- 58: Improvements made before commencement of the Ordinance
- 59: Improvement begun in anticipation of ejectment
- 60: Tender of lease for twenty years to tenant to be a bar to right to compensation
- 61: Liability to pay compensation for improvements to tenant on ejectment or on enhancement of his rent CHAPTER – VII JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURE JURISDICTION
- 62: Revenue Officers
- 63: Applications and proceedings cognizable by Revenue Officers
- 64: Revenue Courts and suits cognizable by them: Procedure where revenue matter is raised in a Civil Court
- 65: Superintendence and control of Revenue Officers and Revenue Courts
- 66: Power to distribute business & withdraw & transfer Case APPEAL, REVIEW AND REVISION
- 67: Appeals
- 68: Limitation for appeals
- 69: Review by Revenue Officers
- 70: Computation of period limited for appeal and application for review
- 71: Power to call for, examine and revise proceedings of Revenue Officers and Revenue Courts
- 72: Procedure of Revenue Officers
- 73: Persons by whom appearances may be made before Revenue Officers as such and not as Revenue Courts
- 74: Costs
- 75: Procedure of Revenue Courts
- 76: Power of Revenue Officer or Revenue Court to summon persons
- 77: Mode of service of summons
- 78: Mode of service of notice, order or proclamation or copy thereof
- 79: Additional mode of publishing proclamation
- 80: Joinder of tenants as parties to proceedings relating to rent
- 81: Exception of suits under this Ordinance from operations of certain enactments
- 82: Payment of money into court admitted to be due to a third Person
- 83: Execution of decrees for arrears of rent
- 84: Prohibition of imprisonment of tenants in execution of decrees for arrears of rent
- 85: Power to refer party to Civil Court
- 86: Power to refer to High Court question as to jurisdiction
- 87: Power of High Court to validate proceedings held under mistake as to jurisdiction MISCELLANEOUS
- 88: Place of setting
- 89: Holidays
- 90: Discharge of duties of Collector dying or being disabled
- 91: Retention of powers by Revenue Officers on transfer
- 92: Conferment of powers of Revenue Officers of Revenue Court
- 93: Power of Board of Revenue to make rules
- 94: Rules to be made after previous publications
- 95: Powers exercisable by Board of Revenue from time to time CHAPTER – VIII EFFECT OF THIS ORDINANCE ON RECORDS-OF-RIGHTS & AGREEMENTS
- 96: Nullity of certain entries in Record-of-Rights
- 97: Nullity of certain agreements contrary to the Act
- 98: Saving of other agreements when in writing
- 99: Effect of certain entries made in record-of-rights before the coming into force of this Ordinance
- 100: Nothing but rent or seed supplied recoverable
- 101: Extinction of occupancy tenancies
- 102: Limits of holding for personal cultivation
- 103: Offences
- Preamble: Preamble
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