The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Tenancy Act, 1950
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Acts · Khyber Pakhtunkhwa · 1950 · Act No. XXV of 1950
Legal status
In force
Effective date
1950-06-20
Sections
88
- 1: Short title, Extent and Commencement
- 2: Definitions
- 3: Non-Acquisition of occupancy rights
- 3A: Prohibition of succession to non-occupancy tenancies
- 4: Compensation to be paid to the landlord
- 5: Respective rights of landlord and tenant to produce
- 6: Commutation and alteration of rent
- 7: Payments for land occupied without consent of land lord
- 8: Collection of rents of undivided property
- 9: Presumption with respect to produce removed before division
- 10: Finality to the decision of the officer conducting the division
- 11: Costs of divisions
- 12: Village cess or service to a land lord
- 13: Alteration of rent on alteration of area
- 14: Remission of rent by courts decreeing arrears
- 15: Remission and suspension of vent consequent on Like treatment of land revenue
- 16: Power to deposit rent in certain cases with revenue Officer
- 17: Effect of depositing rent
- 18: Recovery of rent from attached produce
- 19: Treatment of leases for Period exceeding or equal to term of assessment of land revenue
- 20: Relinquishment by tenant for a fixed term
- 21: Relinquishment by any other tenant
- 22: Relinquishment of Part only of a tenancy
- 23: Grounds of ejectment of tenant for a fixed term
- 24: Ejectment of other tenant
- 25: Restriction on ejectment
- 26: Application to Revenue Officer for ejectment
- 27: Ejectment for failure to satisfy decree for arrear of rent
- 28: Ejectment of certain tenants by notice
- 29: Power to make rules
- 30: Times for ejectment
- 31: Relief against for forfeiture
- 32: Rights of ejected tenants in respect of crops and land prepared for sowing
- 33: Relief for wrongful dispossession or ejectment
- 34: Bar to civil suits
- 35: Bar of relief by suit under section 9, Act I, 1877
- 36: Power of Provincial Government to fix dates for certain purposes
- 37: Title of tenants to make Improvements
- 38: Improvements begun in anticipation of ejectment
- 39: Tender of lease for 20 years to tenant to be a bar to right of compensation
- 40: Liability to pay compensation for Improvements to tenant on Ejectment or on Enhancement of his Rent
- 41: Compensation for disturbance of clearing tenants
- 42: Determination of compensation by revenue court
- 43: Determination of compensation by revenue officers
- 44: Matters to be regarded in Assessment of compensation for improvement
- 45: Form of compensation
- 46: Relief in case of ejectment before determination of compensation
- 47: Classes of Revenue Officers
- 48: Application and proceedings cognizable by Revenue Officers
- 49: Revenue courts and suits cognizable by them
- 50: Superintendence and control of Revenue Officers and Revenue Courts
- 51: Power to distribute business and withdraw and transfer cases
- 52: Appeals
- 53: Limitation for appeals
- 54: Review by Revenue Officers
- 55: Computation of period limited for appeals and applications for review
- 56: Powers to call for, examine and Review Proceedings of Revenue officers and Revenue Courts
- 57: Procedure of Revenue Officers
- 58: Persons by whom appearances may be made before Revenue Officers as such and not as Revenue Courts
- 59: Costs
- 60: Procedure of Revenue Courts
- 61: Powers of Revenue Officers or Revenue Court to summon persons
- 62: Mode of service of summons
- 63: Mode of service of notice, order or proclamation or copy thereof
- 64: Additional mode of publishing proclamation
- 65: Joinder of tenants as parties to proceedings relating to rent
- 66: Exception of suits under this Act from operations of certain Enactments
- 67: Payment into court of money admitted to be due to a third person
- 68: Execution of decrees for arrears of rent
- 69: Prohibition of imprisonment of tenants in execution of Decrees for arrears of rent
- 70: Power to refer party to civil court
- 71: Power to refer to the High Court questions as to jurisdiction
- 72: Power of High Court to validate proceedings made under mistake as to Jurisdiction
- 73: Place of Sitting
- 74: Holidays
- 75: Discharge of duties of collector dying or being disabled
- 76: Retention of powers by Revenue Officers on transfer
- 77: Conferment of powers of Revenue Officer or Revenue Court
- 78: Power of the Board of Revenue to make Rules
- 79: Rules to be made after Previous Publication
- 80: Powers Exerciseable by the Board of Revenue or the Commissioner from time to time
- 81: Nullity of certain entries in Records of Rights
- 82: Nullity of certain agreements contrary to the Act
- 83: Limitation for declaration of occupancy rights
- 84: Powers of the Provincial Government to make rules
- 85: Repeal and saving
- 86: Procedure for partition of lands acquired by the occupancy Tenants
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