24: Ejectment of other tenant

(1) A tenant who does not hold for a fixed term under a contract or a decree or order of any competent authority , may be ejected at the end of the third year from the commencement [ of this Act ] and not before and on any of the following grounds, before the expiration thereof, namely:— (a) that he has failed to pay the rent on the date when it falls due; (b) that he has removed the whole or part of the produce from the thrashing-floor before it is divided; (c) that he has used the land comprised in the tenancy in the manner which renders it unfit for the purposes for which he held it; (d) where the rent is payable in kind, that he has without sufficient cause, failed to cultivate that land in the manner or to the extent customary in which the land is situate. (2) No landlord, in the case of a tenant who does not hold for a fixed term under a contract or a decree or order of competent authority shall entrance the rent during the period that he is not entitled to eject the tenant under the last preceding sub-section.

Effective date: 1950-06-20

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