27A: Adjustment of rents paid by occupancy tenants in Attock District Alteration of rent on alteration of area

Adjustment of rents paid by occupancy tenants in Attock District.– (1) Where a tenant having a right of occupancy in land in the Attock District pays wholly or partly in cash a rent not falling within the scope of section 27 and the land revenue of the holding in which the tenancy is situate is altered– a Revenue Officer having authority under section [67] of the Punjab Land Revenue Act, [1967], to determine the land revenue payable in respect of the several holdings comprised in the estate in which the tenancy is situate may, by written order, and whether the rent was fixed by agreement or otherwise; and either upon the application of such tenant, or his land-lord, or of his own motion increase or diminish such rent if wholly payable in cash, or such portion thereof as is payable in cash, to such extent as appears to the Revenue Officer to be proper having regard to the matters specified in sub-section (2). 16 The Punjab Laws (2) In increasing or diminishing the rent of a tenancy under the provisions of sub-section (1) the Revenue Officer shall, for the purpose of deciding the extent of such increase or diminution, take into consideration only– (i) the land revenue of, and the rates and cesses chargeable on, the tenancy before the land revenue of the holding in which it is situated was altered; (ii) the land revenue of, and the rates and cesses chargeable on, the tenancy after such alteration; and (iii) the methods by which the assessments of the land revenue in force before and after such alteration were calculated and distributed over the several holdings comprised in the estate in which the tenancy is situated. (3) The rent determined as aforesaid shall be the rent payable in respect of the tenancy until there is again an alteration of the land revenue thereof or of the rates or cesses chargeable thereon, or until the rent is enhanced or reduced by a suit under this Act. (4) For the purposes of this section a muqarraridar shall be deemed to be a tenant having a right of occupancy. (5) An alteration of rent under this section shall not be deemed as an enhancement or reduction of rent within the meaning of this Act]. Alteration of rent on alteration of area

Effective date: 1887-11-01

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