Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) When a landlord refuses to accept any mone^rent r e n t w l ,e n tendered to him by a tenant or when the tenant is in bonajide doubt as to who is entitled to receive the rent, the tenant may make an application to the Revenue Officer in the prescrib ed manner seeking permission to deposit the cash rent or money rent as the case may be along with the cost of transmission, and fee for notice. (2) The Revenue Officer, if satisfied after enquiry in the prescribed manner, as to the bonajide of the circumstances preventing the tenant from paying the rent to his land-lord, shall accept the amount tendered and issue a receipt thereof. The receipt shall be deemed to be a valid discharge of the rent actually deposited by the ten ant. (3) In cases of refusal to accept the ren t the Revenue Officer shall rem it the rent deposited by the ten ant by Money Order to the last known address of the laivddord. (4) In other cases the Revenue Officer shall cause a notice about the fact of deposit of rent in his office fixed in a conspicuous place and also to be served on any person whom he has reason to believe, is entitled to deposit. He shall thereafter proceed to hear the person or persons interested in the manner prescribed and if there is no dispute, the Revenue Officer shall cause imm ediate prym ent. 137 In cases of dispute as to the person or persons who are entitled to receive the ren t, the amount shall be kept tn deposit in a Government Treasury and the dispute shall be referred to a Civil Court having jurisdiction and the amount shall then be paid in terms of the final decision of the Court. CH APTER VIII J* Sa le fo r ar re ar un der dec re e Attachment and procla mation of sale. h ldiii for ^9. Where the unsatisfied rent-decree relates arr ea?of° t o arrear rent in respect of a holding of any occu- rent in cer- pancy ten ant, he shall not be liable to eject- tain cases, ment for such arrear. But his holding shall be liable to sale in execution of the unsatisfied rent-decree and the land-lord shall, instead of filing a suit for ejectment, submit an application, accompanied with the rent-decree to the com petent Civil Court for attach ing and putting the holding of the defaulting ten ant to sale, and the decree for rent shall be satisfied out of the proceeds of the sale. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Civil Procedure Code, 1908, or any other law for the time being in force, the procedure for attach ing and selling the holding of the defaulting tenant shall be according to the provisions hereinafter following.