Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) No tenancy shall be terminated except in accordance with the provisions of this Act or except on any of the following grounds, namely :— [(a). * * * * LJ] * *1. (b) that the tenant has failed to pay rent within a period of six months after it falls due : *[Provided that no tenant shall be ejected under this clause unless he has been afforded an opportunity to pay the arrears of rent with- in a further period of six months from the date of the decree or order directing his ejectment and he has failed to pay such arrears during that period;] {(c) that the tenant, not being a widow, ‘[a minor, an unmarried woman, a member of the Armed Forces of the Union ar a person incapable of cultivating land by reason of physical or mental infirmity] has after commencement of the President’s Act, sublet without the consent in writing of 1Added by Pepsu Act No. 15 of 1956. 2Clause (a) of sub-section (1) omitted by Pepsu Act No. 15 of 1958. 3Proviso added to clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 7 by Pepsu Act No. 9 of 1956. “Substituted by Pepsu Act No, 15 of 1956, section 7(2), 1955 : Pepsu Act 13] TENANCY AND AGRICULTURAL 125 LANDS the landowner, the land comprising his tenancy or any part thereof; (d) that the tenant has, without sufficient cause, failed to cultivate personally such land, in the manner and to the extent customary in the locality in which such land is situated; (e) that the tenant has used such land or any part thereof in a manner which is likely to render the land unfit for the purpose for which it was leased to him ; (f) that the tenant, on demand, in writing by the landowner has refused to execute a kabuliyat agreeing to pay rent in respect of his tenancy in accordance with the provisions of sections 9 and 10. TR) + + * + x = A] dditional ’[7-A. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections Addit onal ter (2) and (3), a tenancy subsisting at the commencement of mination of ten- the Pepsu Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Second 31Y in certain Amendment) Act, 1956, may be terminated on the follow- ) ing grounds in addition to the grounds specified in section 7, namely :— (a) that the land comprising the tenancy has been reserved by the landowner for his personal cultivation in accordance with the provisions of Chapter IT; (b) that the landowner owns thirty standard acres or less of land and the land falls within his permissible limit : Provided that no tenant [other than a tenant of a landowner who is member of the Armed Forces of the Union] shall be ejected under this sub- section— (i) from any area of land if the area under the personal cultivation of the tenant does not exceed five standard acres, or 1Sub-section (2) omitted by Pepsu Act No. 15 of 1956 section 7(1). 8Section TA inserted by Pepsu Act No. 15 of 1956, section 8. 8niserted by Punjab Act No. 29 of 1969, section 2, 126 TENANCY AND AGRICULTURAL [1955 : Pepsu Act i5 LANDS (ii) from an area of five standard acres, if the area under the personal cultivation of the tenant exceeds five standard acres, until he is allotted by the State Government alternative land of equivalent value in standard acres. (2) No tenant, who immediately preceding the com- mencement of the President’s Act had held any land conti- nuously for a period of twelve years or more under the same landowner or his predecessor in title, shall be ejec- ted on the grounds specified in sub-section (1)— (a) from any area of land, if the area under the personal cultivation of the tenant does not exceed fifteen standard acres, or (b) from an area of fifteen standard acres, if the area under the personal cultivation of the tenant exceeds fifteen standard acres : Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to the tenant of a landowner who, both at the commencement of the tenancy and the commencement of the President’s Act, was a widow, a minor, an unmarried woman, a mem- ber of the Armed Forces of the Union or a person incapable of cultivating land by reason of physical or mental infirmity. Explanation.—In computing the period of twelve years, the period during which any land has been held under the same landowner or his predecessor in title by the father, brother or son of the tenant shall be included: i (3) For the purpose of computing under sub-sections (1) and (2) the area of land under the personal cultivation of a tenant, any area of land owned by the tehant and under his personal cultivation shall be included.] hey, kn ‘[8. Subject to the provisions of section 7, every tenants. tenant admitted after the commencement of the Pepsu Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Second Amendment) ISubs. by Pepsu Act No. 15 of 1956, s.