Updated: Sunday May 31, 2015/AlAhad Sha'ban 13, 1436/Ravivara Jyaistha 10, 1937, at 07:50:30 PM

The Government Tenants (North-West Frontier) Act, 1893

lACT No. III OF 1893

 

[3rd February, 1893]

 

An Act to provide for the grant of Special Tenancies in 2* Government lands in the 3[North-West Frontier 4*].

 

WHEREAS it  is  expedient to  provide  for  the  grant  by  the  Government of  special tenancies in 2* lands in the 3[North-West Frontier 4* ] which are the property of the Government5*   *   *;

 

It is hereby enacted as follows:---

 

1. Short title and extent. 6[(1) This Act may be called the Government Tenants (North- West Frontier 4*) Act, 1893.

 

 

(2)  It extends to 7*    *    * the North-West Frontier 4*.]

 

 

2. Definition. In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context, Deputy Commissioner” includes also any officer appointed by the 8[ Provincial Government] to perform all or any of the functions of the Deputy Commissioner under this Act.

 

3. Application of Act. The 8[ Provincial Government] may, by notification in the official

Gazette, apply the provisions of this Act to any tract of land which is the property of the

9[Government] 10*   *   *.

 

4.    Issue of statements of conditions of tenancies. When this Act has been so applied to any tract, the 8[Provincial Government] may issue a statement or statements of the conditions on which it is willing to grant to tenants lands situate in such tract.

 

 

1For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gaz. of India, 1893, Pt. V, p. 14; for Proceedings in Council, see ibid., Pt. VI, pp. 12 and 35.

2The word certain rep. by Act 14 of 1896, s. 1(1).

3Subs. by the Second Repealing and Amending Act, 1914 (17 of 1914), s. 2 and Sch. I, for Punjab.

4The word Province omitted by the Central Laws (Statute Refrom) Ordinance, 1960 (21 of 1960), s. 3 and 2nd Sch., (with effect from the 14th

October, 1955),

5The words and are wholly or partly irrigable from Government canals” rep. by Act 14 of 1896, s, 1 (2).

6Subs. by Act 17 of 1914, s. 2 and Sch. I, for the original section 1.

7The words the territories for the time being administered by the Chief Commissioner of rep. by A.O., 1937,

8Subs. ibid., for L. G.”.

9Subs. by A. O., 1961, Art. 2 (with effect from the 23rd March, 1956), for Crown which had been subs. by A. O., 1937, for Govt.”.

10The words and is wholly or partly irrigable from a canal the property of the Government rep. by Act 14 of 1896, s. 1(3).

5. Maintenance of registers of tenancies.-(1) When any such statement has been issued for any tract, the Deputy Commissioner shall, in manner hereinafter provided, open and maintain for such tract a register or registers of tenancies granted on the conditions prescribed in such statement.

(2) Every such register shall have prefixed thereto a copy of the statement of conditions to which it relates, and shall be in such form and shall contain such particulars as to the tenancies registered therein as the l[Provincial Government] may prescribe.

6. Entry in register and signature thereof on grant of tenancy. Before a tenancy is granted to any person in any such tract, the prescribed particulars regarding the proposed grant shall be duly entered in the appropriate register, and the entry shall be signed by the proposed tenant and by the Deputy Commissioner.

7. Effect of signature of entry. When any entry in any such register has been so signed as directed in the last foreging section, the person signing the same as proposed tenant and his successors in interest shall, notwithstanding any previous agreement or anything contained in the Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, (XVI of 1887) or the Hazara Tenancy Regulation, 1887 (Reg. XIII of 1887), or any other enactment now in force, be deemed to have accepted and to hold the lands described in such entry as a tenant from the 2[Government] on the conditions prescribed in the statement prefixed to such register.

8. Transfer of rights of tenants. The rights or interests vested in a tenant by or under this Act shall Dot be capable of being attached or sold in execution of a decree or order of any Court or in any insolvency proceedings, nor shall they or any of them, without the previous consent in writing of the Financial Commissioner, be transferred or charged by any sale, gift, mortgage or other private contract.

9. Sums due in respect to tenancy recoverable as arrears of land revenue. All sums due to the 2[Government] in respect of a tenancy granted in pursuance of this Act shall be recoverable as if they were arrears of land revenue due from the tenant in respect of such tenancy.

 

1Subs. by A.O., 1937, for L. G.”.

2Subs. by A.O.,1961, Art. 2 (with effect from the 23rd March,1956),for Crown”, which had been subs. by A.O., 1937, for Govt.”.

 

Go to Index | LL. B. – I | LL. B. – II | LL. B. – III | LL. B. Directory | Home