Bare ActsThe Punjab Settlement of Agricultural Indebtedness Act, 2016.

Section 14

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(J) Ifacreditor or a debtor, as the case may be, challenges the Power of the genuineness or enforceability or the total amount of debt or principal or rate of F sutie ae : ; . . . adjudicate. interest or amount of interest or date of raising of any debt included in an application, the Forum shall adjudicate upon the issue. (2) The Forum shall determine in the case of each debt, shown in the application made by the debtor or his creditor under section 9 or in the statement furnished by the creditor under section 12, other than a debt, declared non- genuine or unenforceable, the principal amount originally advanced, the amount paid by the debtor towards the principal or interest or both and the amount of principal and interest payable as notified under this Act. (3) The Forum shall decide every application submitted under section 9 within a period of three months from the date of application. (4) Where the debtor is found to have repaid to the creditor an amount Powers of the Forum and Tribunal to summon, Re-opening of transaction. XT Y 4, 2016 UNJAB GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA), MA _ (VYSK 14, 1938 SAKA) . 4 — fouble the principal amount, or the debtor on being ‘ dc amount, Which makes the total repaymen al, the Forum shall declare the deby ts equal to, or excecding, sndi ays al apprised of such finding, pays y oa I louble the amount of princip ! fo at | squal to de - lane (bah sac . hull lischarged and thereupon the provisions of clause (b) tion 3, shal fully discharged é apply. - 5) The Forum shall keeping in view the outstanding amount o Principal (Od Wh ‘ 1 ‘a and interest as determined under sub-section (2), and the paying capacity of { fthe amount of debt, settled or determined the debtor, order the repayment o é in such installments as it may deem fit. (6) Ifthe Forum finds that the provisions of the Punjab Regulation of Accounts, Act, 1930, have not been complied with by the creditor, it may, for the reasons to be recorded in writing disallow the interest partly or wholly for the period of non-compliance. The creditor shall issue a duly authenticated passbook to the debtor, clearly giving the details of his loan account.

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