45: Ejectment of tenant from year to year by notice

Ejectment of tenant from year to year by notice.– (1) On receiving the application of the land-lord in any such case as is mentioned in clause (b) of section 42, the Revenue Officer The Punjab Tenancy Act 1887 (XVI of 1887) 21 shall, if the application is in order and not open to objection on the face of it, cause a notice of ejectment to be served on the tenant. (2) A notice under sub-section (1) shall not be served after the fifteenth day of November in any [agricultural] year. (3) The notice shall specify the name of the land-lord on whose application it is issued, and describe the land to which it relates, and shall inform the tenant that he must vacate the land before the first day of May next following, or that, if he intends to contest his liability to ejectment, he must institute a suit for this purpose in a Revenue Court within two months from the date of the service of the notice. (4) The notice shall also inform the tenant that if he does not intend to contest his liability to be ejected and he has any claim for compensation on ejectment, he should within two months from the date of the service of the notice prefer his claim to the Revenue Officer having authority under the next following sub-section to order his ejectment in the circumstances described in that sub-section. (5) If within two months from the date of the service of the notice the tenant does not institute a suit to contest his liability to be ejected, a Revenue Officer, on the application of the land-lord, shall, subject to the provisions of this Act with respect to the payment of compensation, order the ejectment of the tenant: Provided that the Revenue Officer shall not make the order until he is satisfied that the notice was duly served on the tenant. (6) If within those two months the tenant institutes a suit to contest his liability to be ejected and fails in the suit, the Court by which the suit is determined shall by its decree direct the ejectment of the tenant.

Effective date: 1887-11-01

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