Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887
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1. When did the Punjab Tenancy Act come into force?
Answer: 23rd September 1887
2. What is the main purpose of Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887?
Answer: To amend the law relating to the land tenancy in Punjab
3. What is included in the definition of improvement under Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887?
Answer: All of these (Temporary wells, Drainage works, Ordinary operations of husbandry)
4. Muqarraridar refers to under Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887?
Answer: Person holding land in Attock & Rawalpindi District
5. What is the definition of “land” under Tenancy Act, 1887?
Answer: Land not occupied as the site of any building, used for agriculture or related purpose
6. What does the term “Arrear of Rent” refer to in Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887?
Answer: Rent remaining unpaid after the due date
7. What is the meaning of Land Revenue under Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887?
Answer: Any sum payable in respect of land to the Government
8. Who is excluded from the definition of Tenant under Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887?
Answer: A mortgagee of the rights of a landowner
9. Who has the authority to decide whether a cess is or is not a village cess?
Answer: Board of Revenue
10. Who has the authority to make rules under section 4 of the Act?
Answer: Provincial Government
11. When does a tenant have rights of occupancy (Section 5)?
Answer: Settling in a village along with founder and continuously occupying land since 1868
12. What must the landlord prove to deny occupancy rights (Section 5)?
Answer: That the tenant does not hold land for more than 20 years
13. When is it presumed that a tenant has fulfilled section 5(1)?
Answer: Continuous occupation for 30 years without paying rent beyond specified charges
14. What happens to occupancy rights in land taken in exchange (Section 7)?
Answer: It is subject to the same rights as the land given in exchange
15. Can a tenant acquire occupancy rights by mere lapse of time (Section 9)?
Answer: No, it is explicitly prohibited
16. In joint ownership can one joint owner acquire occupancy rights?
Answer: No, unless there is a custom allowing it
17. What is the status of existing occupancy rights (Section 11)?
Answer: They are considered valid for all purposes of the land
18. What can a tenant do with produce of his tenancy (Section 12(2))?
Answer: Tend, cut and harvest without interference
19. When can tenant’s rent be changed without mutual consent?
Answer: On direction of a Revenue Officer
20. A person occupying land without landlord’s consent is ______ (Section 14).
Answer: Liable for rent at the rate of preceding agricultural year
21. When there are multiple landlords (Section 15)?
Answer: Tenant shall not be bound to pay part of the rent to different landlords
22. Section 15-A specifies rights and liabilities as per what?
Answer: Share of produce as per the 1971 ratio
23. If a tenant removes produce to prevent division (Section 16)?
Answer: It is treated as the fullest crop on similar land in the neighborhood
24. Who may appoint referee for division or appraisement (Section 17)?
Answer: Revenue Officer
25. When can rent of occupancy tenant be enhanced (Section 20)?
Answer: If the land becomes irrigated or flooded
26. What is the minimum rent court cannot fix below (Section 25)?
Answer: One-half of land revenue
27. What discretion does court have under Section 25?
Answer: Fair and equitable within limits but not less than the land revenue amount
28. Rent cannot be fixed ______ under Section 25.
Answer: At a sum less than the amount of the land revenue
29. Enhancement takes effect from when (Section 26)?
Answer: From next agricultural year
30. How is rent adjusted when land revenue changes (Section 27)?
Answer: Revenue Officer determines the amount of land revenue of the tenancy
31. When is a tenant liable to pay additional rent (Section 28)?
Answer: For any land proved to be in excess of previously paid area
32. In determining previously paid area (Section 28(2)), court regards?
Answer: Origin and conditions of tenant’s occupancy, among other matters
33. When can court allow remission of rent (Section 29)?
Answer: If the area of a tenancy is diminished by calamities
34. What calamities allow remission of rent (Section 29)?
Answer: Diluvion, drought, hail, deposit of sand, or other like calamity
35. When can a tenant deposit rent with Revenue Officer (Section 30)?
Answer: When landlord refuses to accept rent or tenant is uncertain about recipient
36. When court attaches produce of tenancy (Section 33), who may apply to sell it?
Answer: The landlord
37. What rent can landlord claim from sale proceeds (Section 33)?
Answer: Rent within the year preceding the application
38. When is a lease voidable at landowner’s option (Section 34)?
Answer: If land revenue has been enhanced and tenant refuses to pay fair amount
39. When can a fixed-term tenant relinquish tenancy (Section 35)?
Answer: Without notice at the end of that term
40. When can any other tenant relinquish tenancy (Section 36)?
Answer: On or before the fifteenth day of May
41. Can a tenant relinquish part only of tenancy (Section 37)?
Answer: Not without consent of his landlord
42. If occupancy tenant fails to cultivate for how long (Section 38)?
Answer: Three years
43. Ground for ejectment of occupancy tenant (Section 39)?
Answer: After a decree for rent arrears has been passed and remains unsatisfied
44. When can fixed-term tenant be ejected (Section 40)?
Answer: At expiration of that term
45. When can tenant without fixed term be ejected (Section 41)?
Answer: At the end of any agricultural year
46. Timeframe to pay specified amount after notice (Section 44)?
Answer: Thirty days
47. Latest date to serve notice (Section 45)?
Answer: Fifteenth day of May
48. Tenant must vacate land before which date (Section 45(3))?
Answer: Before the first day of May
49. Tenant must file suit to contest ejectment within (Section 45(3))?
Answer: Within one month
50. Who may make rules for applications and notices (Section 46)?
Answer: The Board of Revenue
51. When can decree of ejectment be executed (Section 47)?
Answer: Between fifteenth day of May and fifteenth day of June
52. Time to file suit for recovery after ejectment (Section 50)?
Answer: Within one year from date of dispossession
53. Section 50-A deals with what?
Answer: Relief against forfeiture
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