Bare ActsThe Assam (Temporarily Settled Districts) Tenancy Act, 1935

Section 53

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Where rent is due to the pro prietor, land- receip t of bolder, manager or mortgagee of an estate, the r c g i s tr ed receipt of the person whose name has been registered pro pricto r , in the general registers maintained under Chapter IV landholder., of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation as pro- i of 1886, mcrt^gee°r Pr le t o r> landholder, manager or mortgagee of th at estate, or of his agent authorised in th at behalf, shal( be a sufficient discharge for the rent due to such pro prietor, landholder, manager or mortgagee, and the person liable tor the ren t shall not be entitled to plead in defence to a claim by the person so registered that the rent is due to any third person ; but nothing in this section shall affect any remedy which any such third person may h >ve against the registered proprie­ tor, landholder, manager or mortgagee. D eposit of R en t to'dcposiV'o" ^4. 1° a n Y °f following cases, namely— re nt in court (c) When the landlord refuses to accept any instalm ent of rent payable in cash when tendered to him by a tenant, or when the tena nt entertains a bona fide doub as to who is entitled to receive the rent payable in cash, the tenant may apply, in the manner prescribed, to the Revenue C ourt for permission to deposit in the Court a sum not less than the amount then due and »» the Court shall receive the deposit if it appears after examning the applican t that the application is made in goiod faith and on reasonable grounds and if the applicant pays in case (a)—the prescribed cost of trans­ mission of the money deposited to the landlord and in case (&)—th e fee chargeable for the issue of the notice referred to in section 56 in addition to the prescribed cost of transmission of the rent deposited. 31

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