Bare ActsThe west bengal non agricultural tenancy act, 1949

Section 51

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( 1 1 In any or lhe following cases, namcly- (3) :vhcn a non-agricultural tenant tcnders tnoncy on account of rcn( and the landlord rcfuses lo rcucive it or rcru'uscs to grant a receipr Tor it; (b) whcn a non-agricultural tennnl bound to pay money on account OT rent has reason ro believe, qwing to a tendcr having bcen refused of a receipl withheld on a previous occasion, that the person lo whom his rent is payable will no1 be willing to receivc it and ro granl him arcccipr [or it; {c) when thc rent is pnyoble ro co-sharers jointly and the non- agricultural tenan1 is unable ro ob~ain the join1 receipt of thc co-sharcrs for the muney and no person has been cinpowered lo rcceive !he rcnt on their bchalf; or (d) when the non-agriculwral tcnanr e~cnains a botrufide doubl as to who is cnlitlcd to rcccive tl~c rcnt, rhc non-agricuI~ural rennnt may prescnl to he Caun having jurisdiction to cnlertain a suil for the rcnt of his rcnancy an application in writing for permission to dcposil in thc Court a sum not less lhan rhe mounr of rhe money then duc. (a) canlain a statement ol the grounds on which it is niade: 'See hot-noic 5 on p y c 12 I. nrrre. Act V DT 190s. (h) slate- (i) in rhc cases rcferrcd lo in clauscs (a) and (b) or sub- sccrion (1) [he namc of the person to whosc crctlil the dcposit is to be entered, (ji) in ihc case rcrerred 10 in clause (c) of [hat sub-sccrion. h e namm or rhc co-sharers 10 whom [he renl is due. or of so many or rhcm as lhe non-agricullural [enant may bc able to spwiry, and (iii) in [he casc rcfcrrcd lo in clausc (d) of that sub-scclion, the namc of rhe person LO whom the renl was paid and of the pcrson OF persons now claiming it; (c) bc signed and vcrified in h e manncr providcd in sub- rules (2) and (3) of rule 15 of Ordcr VI in Schcdulc I to he Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, by thc non-agricultural tenant, or wherc he is no1 personally cognizanr of ~hc facrs, of the case, by some pcrson so copnizan~; and (dl be accompanied. in the cascs referrcd to in clauses (a) and (b) of sub-section (1) by rhe prcscribcd cos: of transmission of rhc money dcposi~cd LO the landlord and in the cascs referred 10 in clauses (c) and (d) of that sub- section by a fce of he prescribed amount.

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