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### Title: The Prisons Act, 1894: Section 18. Responsibility of Jailer. ### Content: The Jailer shall be responsible for the safe custody of the records to be kept under section 12, for the commitment warrants and all other documents confided to his care, and for the money and other articles taken from prisoners.

### Title: The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897: Section 4. Protection to persons acting under Act. ### Content: No suit or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person for anything done or in good faith intended to be done under this Act.

### Title: The Prisons Act, 1894: Section 41. Search of visitors. ### Content: (1) The Jailer may demand the name and address of any visitor to prisoner, and, when the Jailer has any ground for suspicion, may search any visitor, or cause him to be searched, but the search shall not be made in the presence of any prisoner or of another visitor. (2) In case of any such visitor refusing to permit himself to be searched, the Jailer may deny him admission; and the grounds of such proceeding, with the particulars thereof, shall be entered in such record as the State Government may direct.

### Title: The Prisons Act, 1894: Section 49. Punishments to be in accordance with foregoing sections. ### Content: Except by order of a Court of Justice, no punishment other than the punishments specified in the foregoing sections shall be inflicted on any prisoner, and no punishment shall be inflicted on any prisoner otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of those sections.

### Title: The General Clauses Act, 1897: Section 11. Measurement of distances. ### Content: In the measurement of any distance, for the purposes of any 1[Central Act] or Regulation made after the commencement of this Act, that distance shall, unless a different intention appears, be measured in a straight line on a horizontal plane. 1. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "Acts of the Governor-General in Council".

### Title: The Prisons Act, 1894: Section 38. Record of directions of Medical Officers. ### Content: All directions given by the Medical Officer or Medical Subordinate in relation to any prisoner, with the exception of orders for the supply of medicines or directions relating to such matters as are carried into effect by the Medical Officer himself or under his superintendence, shall be entered day by day in the prisoner's history-ticket or in such other record as the State Government may by rule direct, and the Jailer shall make an entry in its proper place stating in respect of each direction the fact of its having been or not having been complied with, accompanied by such observations, if any, as the Jailer thinks fit to make, and the date of the entry. STATE AMENDMENT Maharashtra.-- Amendment of section 38 of Act IX of 1894.--In section 38 of the principal Act,-- (1) the words "or Medical Subordinate" shall be deleted; (2) in the marginal note, for the word "Officers" the word "Officer" shall be substituted. [Vide Bombay Act XLV of 1959, s. 9]

### Title: The Prisons Act, 1894: Section 58. Prisoners not to be ironed by Jailer except under necessity. ### Content: No prisoner shall be put in irons or under mechanical restraint by the Jailer of his own authority, except in case of urgent necessity, in which case notice thereof shall be forthwith given to the Superintendent.

### Title: The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897: Section 3B. Composition of certain offences. ### Content: 1[3B. Composition of certain offences.--Where a person is prosecuted for committing an offence punishable under sub-section (2) of section 3, such offence may, with the permission of the Court, be compounded by the person against whom such act of violence is committed.] 1. Ins. by s. 7, ibid. (w.e.f. 22-4-2020).

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 3. Classes of tenants. ### Content: There shall be five classes of tenants, namely :-- (1) absolute occupancy-tenants; (2) occupancy-tenants; (3) village-service-tenants; (4) sub-tenants; and (5) ordinary tenants.

### Title: The Prisons Act, 1894: Section 54. Offences by prison-subordinates. ### Content: (1) Every Jailor or officer of a prison subordinate to him who shall be guilty of any violation of duty or wilful breach or neglect of any rule or regulation or lawful order made by competent authority, or who shall withdraw from the duties of his office without permission, or without having given previous notice in writing of his intention for the period of two months, or who shall wilfully overstay any leave granted to him, or who shall engage without authority in any employment other than his prison-duty, or who shall be guilty of cowardice, shall be liable, on conviction before a Magistrate, to fine not exceeding two hundred rupees, or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, or to both. (2) No person shall under this section be punished twice for the same offence.

### Title: The General Clauses Act, 1897: Section 8. Construction of references to repealed enactments. ### Content: 1[(1)] Where this Act, or any 2[Central Act] or Regulation made after the commencement of this Act, repeals and re-enacts, with or without modification, any provision of a former enactment, then references in any other enactment or in any instrument to the provision so repealed shall, unless a different intention appears, be construed as references to the provision so re-enacted. 3[(2) 4[Where before the fifteenth day of August, 1947, any Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom repealed and re-enacted], with or without modification, any provision of a former enactment, then reference in any 2[Central Act] or in any Regulation or instrument to the provision so repealed shall, unless a different intention appears, be construed as references to the provision so re-enacted.] 1. Section 8 renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 18 of 1919, s. 2 and the First Schedule. 2. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for Acts of the Governor-General in Council. 3. Ins. by s. 2 and the First Schedule, ibid. 4. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Where any Act of Parliament repeals and re-enacts".

### Title: The General Clauses Act, 1897: Section 20. Construction of orders, etc., issued under enactments. ### Content: Where, by any 1[Central Act] or Regulation, a power to issue any 2[notification], order, scheme, rule, form, or bye-law is conferred, then expressions used in the 2[notification], order, scheme, rule, form or bye-law, if it is made after the commencement of this Act, shall, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, have the same respective meanings as in the Act or Regulation conferring the power. 1. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "Act of the Governor General in Council" 2. Ins. by Act 1 of 1903, s. 3 and the Second Schedule.

### Title: The Live-stock Importation Act, 1898: Section 3A.  Power to regulate Importation of live-stock products. ### Content: 1[3A. Power to regulate Importation of live-stock products. --The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, regulate, restrict or prohibit in such manner and to such extent as it may think fit, the import into the territories to which this Act extends, of any live-stock product, which may be liable to affect human or animal health.] 1. Ins. by Act 28 of 2001, s. 5 (w.e.f. 5-7-2001).

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 37. Tenant taking thika or farm. ### Content: When a person, at the time of taking a thika or farm, is a tenant of any land comprised therein, his interest as tenant shall not be affected by reason only of his taking the thika or farm.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 40. Rents fixed for period of settlement. ### Content: (1) The rent of the holding of every absolute occupancytenant shall be fixed by the Settlement-officer at each settlement of the area in which the holding is comprised, and the rent so fixed shall not be altered during the currency of the settlements, except under the provisions of section thirteen, section fourteen, section fifteen or section seventeen. (2) The rent payable by any such tenant in respect of his holding at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been fixed at the current settlement of the area in which his holding is comprised.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 8. Power to deposit rent in certain cases with Revenue officer. ### Content: (a) When a landlord refuses to accept any instalment of rent payable in money when tendered to him by a tenant, (b) when a tenant, in the case mentioned in section 7, desires the appointment of a person to receive rent payable in money and the appointment is not made within a reasonable time, and, (c) when a tenant in any case is doubtful as to the person entitled to receive rent payable in money, the tenant may apply to a Revenue-officer for permission to deposit in his Court the amount of rent which he believes to be due; and that officer shall receive the deposit, if it appears to him, after examining the applicant, that he had reasonable grounds for making the application, and that it was made in good faith, and if the applicant pays the fee (if any) chargeable for the issue of the notice next hereinafter referred to.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 13. Enhancement of rent when productive power of holding increased by landlord. ### Content: Notwithstanding anything in the record-of-rights, but subject to any contract in writing between the parties, the rent payable in money by any tenant may, on the application of his landlord, be enhanced by a Revenue-officer on the ground that an improvement has been made since the present rent was fixed and in accordance with this Act by or at the expense of the landlord whereby the productive power of the holding has been increased.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 22. Procedure when crop has been estimated or appraised. ### Content: (1) When a crop has been estimated or appraised under the foregoing provisions, the estimate or appraisement shall be reduced to writing and signed by the commissioner making the same, and shall be submitted to the Revenue-officer by whom the commission was issued. (2) The Revenue-officer shall consider the commissioner's report, and, after such hearing and inquiry (if any) as he may think necessary, shall pass an order thereon either confirming or varying the estimate or appraisement, and that order shall be final.

### Title: The Live-stock Importation Act, 1898: Section 1. Short title and local extent. ### Content: (1) This Act may be called the Live-stock Importation Act, 1898. 1[(2) It extends to the whole of India 2***;] 3***, 4* * * * * 1. Subs. by Act 40 of 1953, s. 2, for sub-section (2). 2. The words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by Act 62 of 1956, s. 2 and the Schedule (w.e.f.1-11- 1956). 3. The word "and" rep. by Act 10 of 1914, s. 3 and the Second Schedule. 4. Sub-section (3) rep. by s. 3 and the Second Schedule ibid.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 54. Tenant changing land in other cases. ### Content: If a tenant having a right of occupancy in any land ceases to hold that land, and thereupon commence to hold other land of the same landlord under circumstances from which it may be inferred that the tenant has accepted that other land in lieu of, and on the same conditions as, the land which he has ceased to hold, he shall, in the absence of a written agreement to the contrary, be deemed to have a right of occupancy in the land which he so commences to hold.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 59. Definition of sub-tenant. ### Content: A tenant who is not an absolute occupancy-tenant or an occupancytenant and who holds land from another tenant, or from a malik-makbuza, or from the holder of a surveynumber, is a sub-tenant of that land.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 63. Landlord’s right to recover rents determined at settlement as payable by ordinary tenants. ### Content: (1) A Settlement-officer shall, unless the Local Government otherwise directs, fix the rents payable by the ordinary tenants of a mahal other than ordinary tenants whose holdings consist entirely of sir-land, and, on and from the date on which the land-revenue assessment takes effect, the landlord shall be entitled to recover only the rents so fixed. (2) The rents fixed under sub-section (1) shall be recorded in the proceedings of the Settlement-officer, and a copy of the record shall be granted free of expense to the landlord. (3) When by reason of the receipt by the land-lord of any consideration, whether in money or otherwise, a tenant is holding at a rent lower than that fixed by the Settlement-officer under sub-section (1), the Settlement-officer may, notwithstanding anything in this Act, declare him to be entitled to hold at such lower rent,-- (a) if the term is fixed by contract, for the term so fixed or for any shorter period ; (b) in other cases, for such term as the Settlement-officer, having regard to the circumstances, fixed as fair and equitable ; and the term for which the tenant is declared to be so entitled shall be entered in the record made under sub-section (2) : Provided that in no case shall the tenant be entitled to hold at such lower rent for a period longer than that for which the settlement is being made, and, at the expiry of the settlement, he shall not be entitled to a continuance of the privilege.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 61. Power to declare sub-tenants in certain cases to have rights of ordinary tenants. ### Content: —(1) In any local area in which the Local Government may by notification in the local official Gazette declare this section to be in force, a sub-tenant holding from a tenant who is proved to the satisfaction of a Revenueofficer or Settlement-officer to habitually sub-let the land held by the sub-tenant and to manage it solely with a view to the obtaining of rent may, subject to such rules as the Local Government may prescribe, be declared by such Revenue-officer or Settlement-officer to have all the rights conferred by this Act on an ordinary tenant, and shall thereupon be deemed to have such rights both as against the sub-letting tenant and as against the landlord from whom the letter holds : Provided that no such declaration shall be made within one year after the commencement of this Act or in the case of a sub-tenant holding under a lease registered before the commencement of this Act or until an opportunity has been given to the sub-letting tenant to show cause against it. (2) When a sub-tenant has been declared under this section to have the rights of an ordinary tenant, so much of the rent payable by him as is equal to the rent payable to the proprietor by the tenant from whom he holds on account of the land sub-let to him shall be rendered by him to the proprietor direct, and the balance shall be rendered by him to the tenant from whom he holds. (3) If a tenant regarding whose land a declaration under this section has been made dies without heirs or surrenders his holding, the sub-tenant shall be deemed to hold direct from the landlord at the total rent paid by him for the land at the time of such death or surrender.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 43. Rent first charge on holding and holding saleable in execution of decree for arrears of rent. ### Content: The rent of the holding of an absolute occupancy-tenant shall be the first charge on that holding, which shall, subject to the other provisions of this Act, be liable to sale in execution of a decree for arrears of the rent thereof.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 94. Limitation is suits under the Act. ### Content: (1) The period of limitation for a suit instituted by a tenant other than an absolute occupancy-tenant to recover possession of land from which he has been ejected, shall be two years from the date on which he is ejected. (2) Whenever rent is taken by division of the produce or by estimate or appraisement of the crop, and no application is made under section 19, no suit by the landlord for the recovery of the share of the produce claimed by him as rent, or the value thereof, shall lie unless such suit is instituted within a period of one year reckoned from the date on which the rent instalment on account of the harvest to which the (3) In all other cases the limitation of every suit brought under this Act shall be governed by Indian Limitation Act, 1877 (XV of 1877) : Provided that nothing in section 7, 8 and 9 of the said Act shall apply to suits for arrears of rent or for the ejectment of a tenant, or to suits for recovery of possession by a tenant against his landlord.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 96. Procedure on applications to Revenue and Settlement Officers, and appeals from their orders. ### Content: In fixing rents and disposing of the matters referred to in the last foregoing section, Revenueofficers and Settlement-officers shall, as nearly as may be practicable, subject to the Provisions of this Act and any rules made thereunder, exercise the same powers and follow the same procedure as they exercise and follow under the Central Provinces Land-revenue Act, 1881 (XIII of 1881) as from time to time amended. (2) From every decision or order of a Revenue-officer or Settlement-officer fixing rent or disposing of any matter referred to in the last foregoing section, an appeal shall lie as if that decision or order had been passed by that officer under the said Act.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 70. Devolution of ordinary tenancy. ### Content: (1) When an ordinary tenant dies, his right in his holding shall devolve as if it were land : Provided that a collateral relative of the tenant shall not be entitled to inherit his right unless at the death of the tenant he was a co-sharer in the holding. (2) Exemption of ordinary tenant-rights from Court sales.--Save in pursuance of a document duly registered before the commencement of this Act, no decree or order shall be passed for the sale of the right of an ordinary tenant in his holding, nor shall such right be sold in execution of any decree or order. (3) Prohibition of transfer of ordinary tenant-rights.--No ordinary tenant shall be entitled to sell, make a gift of, mortgage, sub-let (except for a period not exceeding one year) or otherwise transfer his right or holding or any portion thereof; and every such sale, gift, mortgage, sub-lease (other than for a period not exceeding one year) or transfer shall be voidable in the manner and to the extent provided by the two next following sections : Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall affect the right of the Government to sell the right of an ordinary tenant in his holding for the recovery of an advance made to him under the Land Improvement Loans Act, 1883, (XIX of 1883) or the Agriculturists’ Loans Act, 1884 (XII of 1884) or the right of the purchase at such sale to succeed to the holding. (4) Prohibition of contracts for future sub-leases.--No contract for the sub-lease of a holding or any portion thereof shall be entered into or made during the currency of a sub-lease of such holding or such portion thereof ; and every such contract shall be voidable in the manner and to the extent provided by the two next following sections. (5) Prohibition of registration of documents transferring ordinary tenantrights.--Notwithstanding anything contained in the Indian Registration Act, 1877, (III of 1877) no officer empowered to register documents under that Act shall admit to registration any document which purports to transfer the right of any ordinary tenant in his holding or in any portion thereof.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 76. Legal Practitioners’ fees not allowed unless for special reasons. ### Content: In suit between landlords and tenants as such, the fees of a legal practitioner shall not be allowed as costs unless the Court considers, for reasons to be recorded by it in writing, that those fees ought to be allowed.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 83. Arrears decreed not to be on current year’s account. ### Content: No such application as is referred to in foregoing section shall be admitted until after the expiration of the year in which the arrear, or any part of the arrear, accrued.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 89. Payment by tenant for occupation of land under section 88. ### Content: When a landlord elects, under clause (1) of the last foregoing section, to allow a tenant to retain possession of any land for the purpose specified in that clause, the tenant shall pay to the landlord, for the use and occupation of the land during the period for which he is allowed to retain possession of the same, such rent as the Court or Revenueofficer may deem reasonable.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 95. Jurisdiction of Civil Courts barred in certain cases. ### Content: Save where it is expressly provided to the contrary, no Court other than the Court of a Revenue-officer or Settlement-officer shall fix, alter or commute any rent or call in question any rent fixed by a Revenue-officer or Settlement-officer, or shall take cognizance of any dispute or matter in respect of which authority is given by this Act to a Revenueofficer or Settlement-officer.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 77. Set-off when allowed in suits for arrears. ### Content: No set-off shall be allowed in any suit for arrears unless the amount claimed as a set-off has been determined by a decree or order of a competent Court or of a Revenue-officer or Settlement-officer.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 82. Application for execution by sale of holding or by ejectment. ### Content: An application for the execution of a decree for an arrear of rent by sale of the holding in respect of which the arrear accrued or by ejectment of the tenant shall contain a statement showing the tahsil and village in which the holding is situate, the numbers borne in the village rent-roll by the fields constituting the holding, the rent annually payable, and the years in which the decreed arrears accrued.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 90. In suits for arrears all claims between landlord and tenant to be determined. ### Content: In all suits for arrears of rent, the Court shall inquire into and determine all claims under this Act by the landlord against the tenant as such, or by the tenant against the landlord as such.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 97. Jurisdiction of Civil Courts in suits between landlords and tenants. ### Content: Except as provided in section 95, the Civil Courts shall have jurisdiction in all suits between landlords and tenants as such : Provided that.-- (a) a Judge of a Civil Court of original jurisdiction shall not, unless he is also a Revenue-officer or Settlement-officer, hear any such suit ; and (b) the Local Government may, subject to the other provisions of this Act, direct that all or any class of such suits shall be heard and determined only in such Courts competent to try the same as it thinks fit, and not otherwise.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 71. Right of certain persons to apply to set aside transfers. ### Content: —(1) If an ordinary tenant transfers any portion of his rights in any land in contravention of the provisions of the last foregoing section, any such person as would be entitled to inherit his right in the holding in the event of his death without nearer heirs, or the landlord from whom the tenant held the land, may, on application to a Revenue-officer made within two years from the date on which, in pursuance of the transfer, the tenant parted with possession of the land, be placed in possession, subject, so far as the Revenue-officer may, in accordance with rules made by the Local Government, determine, to his acceptance of the liabilities of the transferring tenant for arrears of rent and for advances made by the landlord or other persons for the necessary expenses of cultivation. (2) As among several persons so entitled and being desirous of being placed in possession, the right to be so placed shall accrue in the order in which such persons would have inherited the right of the tenant in the subject of the transfer if the tenant had died failing any such persons, the right shall accrue to the landlord.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 78. Procedure when ordinary tenant in suit pleads excessive rent. ### Content: (1) If in any suit in which the defendant is an ordinary tenant whose holding does not consist entirely of sir-land the tenant appears and, at any times before a decree is passed, pleads that his rent is excessive, the Court shall inquire into the circumstances of the rent. (2) If the Court finds that the rent payable by the tenant has been enhanced by contract or consent above the rent determined by a Settlement-officer at the current settlement or by a Revenue-officer under this Act, or, when not so determined, above the rent at which the holding was first taken up by the tenant, or, if the rent payable was determined by a Settlement-officer in proceedings taken before the commencement of this Act only after the landlord had refused to comply with the request of the Settlement-officer to reduce it, the Court may stay proceedings and refer the case to a Revenue-officer, who shall thereupon fix what rent is fair and equitable for the holding. If the rent so fixed is equal to or more than the rent previously payable, the Court shall decree the arrears claimed and proved. If the rent so fixed is less than the rent previously payable, the Court shall decree against the tenant arrears of rent on account of any year only to the extent of the amount (if any) by which his payments for that year fell short of the rent so fixed. The tenant shall be entitled to remain in occupation at a rent fixed under this subsection from the commencement of the agricultural year next following the date of the institution of the suit. (3) If the Court finds that the rent, in respect of which the plea is made by the tenant, was not enhanced or determined in the manner describe in sub-section (2) but was the rent at which the tenant first took up the holding from the landlord, the Court shall pass a decree for such sum as may be due at the rent so payable, but may, before or after passing the decree, refer the case to a Revenue-officer, who shall there upon fix what is a fair and equitable rent for the holding, and, if the tenant pays the amount decreed within one month of the date on which the rent is so fixed, he shall be entitled to remain in occupation of his holding at the rent so fixed with effect from the commencement of the agricultural year next following the date of the institution of the suit. Explanation I.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize a Revenue-officer to determine a rent higher than that payable by the tenant at the date of the institution of the suit except from the commencement of the agricultural year next following the date of the institution of the suit, and on the formal application of the landlord. Explanation II.--A statement made during the progress of settlement-operations by the Settlementofficer, and contained in any return or report prescribed by the Local Government, to the effect that a landlord refused to reduce any rent, shall be conclusive proof of such refusal.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 72. Procedure on application. ### Content: When any such application as aforesaid is made the Revenue-officer shall issue a notice to all persons who seem to him prima facie to have a right equal or prior to that of the applicant, and shall also cause local proclamation to issue in the village in or from which the holding was cultivated, inviting all persons claiming to be heirs of the tenant who made the transfer to appear before him on a date to be fixed ; and shall, after hearing such of the persons to whom notice was issued as may appear, and any other persons who may apply to be heard in the matter, decide who from among such of them as desire to be placed in possession is first entitled to be so placed : Provided that in the case of a sub-lease, if the tenant who made the sub-lease appears and pays within such period as the Revenue-officer may determine the amount of the consideration, if any has passed, for which the sub-lease was made, and the costs of the applicant if he would otherwise have been successful, the Revenue-officer may replace the tenant himself in possession of the land, if he is satisfied that the tenant made sub-lease in ignorance of the law and is able and willing to cultivate the holding.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 79. Tenants’ improvements how to be treated in fixing rents. ### Content: When the land in respect of which an application is made under section 50 or section 51, or for which a fair rent is to be determined under section 66 or section 78, has been improved, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, by the agency, or at the expense, of the tenant, and such improvement was made during the term of the current settlement or the term of the settlement immediately preceding it, the quality and advantages of the land, as cultivated land, shall, notwithstanding anything contained in any contract or record-of-rights to the contrary, be deemed, for the purposes of any such section as aforesaid, to be the quality and advantages which the land would have had and enjoyed if the improvement had not been made.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 93. Applications to measure or ascertain condition of holdings. ### Content: (1) If any landlord or tenant of a holding desires that the extent of that holding be ascertained, or that evidence relating to any improvement made in respect thereof or to the state of the holding at any specified time, be recorded, he may apply to a Revenue-officer ; and that officer shall thereupon, in presence of the parties,-- (a) make or cause to be made such inquiry as he thinks fit, with a view to ascertaining the extent of the holding, and record his finding thereon, or (b) (where the applicant seeks to have evidence recorded) record that evidence : Provided that no action shall be taken by any Revenue-officer under this section if he considers that there are no reasonable grounds for making the application, or if the subject-matter thereof is under inquiry in a Civil Court. (2) When any matter has been recorded under this section, the record thereof shall be admissible in evidence in any subsequent proceedings between the landlord and tenant or any persons claiming under them.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 92. Reinstatement of tenant illegally ejected. ### Content: Any tenant who has been ejected from his holding or from any portion thereof otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of this Act, may, on application to a Revenue-officer made within one year from the date of his ejectment, be reinstated in possession of such holding or portion : Provided that no order passed under this section shall prejudice the right of the landlord to eject the tenant so reinstated, or the right of a tenant whose application for reinstatement is rejected to establish his title to his holding and to recover possession thereof by means of a regular suit : Provided, also, that possession of a tenancy, or of any portion thereof, shall not be recoverable under section 9 of the specific Relief Act, 1877 (I of 1877), by a tenant dispossessed thereof.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 87. Relief against forfeitures. ### Content: —(1) A suit for the ejectment of tenant on the ground that he has done or omitted to do something for doing or omitting to do which he is liable to ejectment, or that he has broken a condition on breach of which he is, under the terms of a contract between him and the landlord, liable to ejectement, shall not be entertained unless the landlord has requested the tenant, where the damage or breach is capable of remedy, to remedy the same, and, in any case, to pay reasonable compensation for the damage or breach, and the tenant has failed to comply within a reasonable time with that request. (2) A decree passed in favour of a landlord in any such suit shall declare the amount of compensation which would reasonably be payable to the plaintiff for the damage or breach, and whether, in the opinion of the Court, the damage or breach is capable of remedy, and shall fix a period during which it shall be open to the defendant to pay that amount to the plaintiff, and, where the damage or breach is declared to be capable of remedy, to remedy the same. (3) The Court may, from time to time, extend a period fixed by it under sub-section (2) for remedying a damage or breach. (4) If the defendant, within the period or extended period (as the case may be) fixed by the Court under this section, pays the compensation mentioned in the decree, and, where the damage or breach is declared by the Court to be capable of remedy, remedies the damage or breach to the satisfaction of the Court, the decree shall not be executed.

### Title: The Punjab District Boards Act, 1883: Section 70. Recovery of rates. ### Content: All rates and taxes imposed under this Act, and all arrears of such rates and taxes, may be recovered as if they were arrears of land-revenue.

### Title: The Punjab District Boards Act, 1883: Section 79. [Repealed.]. ### Content: [Further amendment.] Rep. by s. 2 and the Schedule, ibid.

### Title: The Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts Act, 1887: Section 16. Seals of Courts. ### Content: Every Civil Court under this Act shall use a seal of such form and dimensions as are prescribed by the State Government.

### Title: The Punjab Land-Revenue Act, 1887: Section 93. Refund of purchase-money on setting aside of sale. ### Content: Whenever the sale of any property is set aside, the purchaser shall be entitled to receive back his purchase-money.

### Title: The Punjab Land-Revenue Act, 1887: Section 83. Power to postpone sale. ### Content: The Collector may from time to time postpone the sale.

### Title: The Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887.: Section 8. Establishment of right of occupancy on grounds other than those expressly stated in Act. ### Content: Nothing in the foregoing sections of this Chapter shall preclude any person from establishing a right of occupancy on any ground other than the grounds specified in those sections.

### Title: The Indian Reserve Forces Act, 1888: Section 2. Division of Reserve Forces into Regular and Supplementary Reserves. ### Content: 1[2. Division of Reserve Forces into Regular and Supplementary Reserves.--The Indian Reserve Forces shall consist of the Regular Reserve and the Supplementary Reserve.] 1. Subs. by Act 12 of 1931, s. 2, for section 2.

### Title: The Charitable Endowments Act, 1890: Section 16. [Omitted.]. ### Content: [General Controlling Authority of Governor General in Council.]––Omitted by the Devolution Act, 1920 (38 of 1920), s. 2 and the First Schedule, Pt. I.

### Title: The North-western Provinces and Oudh Act, 1890: Section . ### Content:

### Title: The Madras City Civil Court Act, 1892: Section 17. Seal to be used. ### Content: The City Court shall use a seal of such form and dimensions as may be for the time being prescribed by the local Government.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 45. Accrual of occupancy-tenant-right in sir-land on transfer of right to occupy as proprietor. ### Content: (1) Notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary and save where sanction has been given under sub-section (2), a proprietor who, after the commencement of this Act, temporarily or permanently loses (whether under decree or order of a Civil Court or a Revenue-officer or otherwise) or transfers his right to occupy sir-land as a proprietor, shall at the date of such loss or transfer become an occupancytenant of that sir-land, and the rent payable by him as such shall be the sum determined at the current settlement as the rental value of such land, unless and until, on the application of either landlord or tenant, the rent is fixed by a Revenue-officer. (2) Grant of sanction in certain cases to transfer of the right to occupy sir-land.--An application by a proprietor for sanction to transfer his sir-land without reservation of the right of occupancy provided for in sub-section (1) may be made to such Revenue-officer, not being below the class of Deputy Commissioner, as the Local Government may appoint for this purpose. Such officer shall sanction transfer in cases in which he is satisfied that the transferor is not wholly or mainly an agriculturist or that the property is self-acquired or has been acquired otherwise than by inheritance within the twenty years last preceding In other cases he shall transmit the application to the Local Government, which may sanction the transfer in whole or in part, on the ground that-- (a) the transferor, though wholly or mainly an agriculturist, will have other permanent means of subsistence after transferring the right to occupy his sir-land, or (b) that the area of the sir-land is too large for the transferor to manage after he has transferred his proprietary rights, or (c) that for any other reason the transfer ought to be permitted. The Local Government may make rules for the guidance of Revenue-officers dealing with applications under this sub-section. (3) Prohibition in certain cases of registration of documents transferring right to occupy sirland.--Notwithstanding anything contained in the Indian Registration Act, 1877 (III of 1871), no officer empowered to register documents under that Act shall admit to registration any document which purports to transfer or surrender the rights of a proprietor in his sir-land, without reservation of the right of occupancy provided for in sub-section (1), or to be an agreement for such transfer or surrender, unless sanction to such transfer or surrender has been endorsed on the document in such manner and by such authority as the Local Government may direct. (4) Partition of undivided share in sir-land.--If there are two or more shares in any sir-land, and one of them becomes an occupancy-tenant in it under this section, his previous share in such sir-land shall, on application made by him or by his landlord, be divided off by a Revenue-officer, and his rights as occupancy-tenant shall be limited to the land comprised in such share. (5) Saving of rights of ordinary tenants.--The accrual of occupancy-tenant-right under sub-section (1) shall not affect the rights of an ordinary tenant holding any part of the sir-land at the time of such accrual. (6) Saving of prior registered documents.--Nothing in this section shall affect a document expressly providing for the transfer of the right to occupy sir-land as a proprietor, and duly registered before the commencement of this Act or shall apply to a surrender or a transfer made, decreed or ordered in pursuance of such a document. (7) Bar of jurisdiction of Civil Courts.--No Civil Court shall question the validity of an order passed under this section granting or refusing sanction to the transfer of the right to occupy sir-land as a proprietor. (8) Exception of bhogra.--Nothing in this section shall apply to "bhogra" land. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section a transfer includes a mortgage and a lease.

### Title: The General Clauses Act, 1897: Section 13A. [Repealed.]. ### Content: 113A. [References to the Sovereign.] Rep. by the A.O. 1950. 1. Ins. by s. 2 and the First Schedule, ibid.

### Title: The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898: Section 99. Power to Local Government to make rules. ### Content: The Local Government may, by notification in the local official Gazette, make rules for the purpose of carrying out the objects of this Act and prescribing the practice thereunder.

### Title: The Punjab District Boards Act, 1883: Section 6. Road, school and post cesses to merge in the rate. ### Content: From such date as may be notified in respect of each district by the Local Government, all authorized rates and cesses for the maintenance of roads, schools and the district-post shall merge in and become part of the local rate, and no rate or cess other than the local rate shall be thereafter leviable for those purposes.

### Title: The Punjab District Boards Act, 1883: Section 2. Repeal of Act V of 1878. ### Content: From the date on which this Act comes into force in any district, the Panjab Local Rates Act, 1878 (V of 1878), shall be repealed throughout that district. But all rates imposed, sums credited to the Local Government, and notifications published under that Act, shall, so far as may be, be deemed to have been respectively spectively imposed, credited and published under this Act.

### Title: The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886: Section 9. Copies of entries to be admissible in evidence. ### Content: A copy of an entry given under the last foregoing section shall be certified by the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, or by an officer authorised in this behalf by the State Government and shall be admissible in evidence for the purpose of proving the birth, death or marriage to which the entry relates.

### Title: The Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887.: Section 17. Appointment of referee for division or appraisement. ### Content: If either the landlord or the tenant neglects to attend, either personally or by agent, at the proper time for making the division or appraisement of the produce, or if there is a dispute about the division or appraisement, a Revenue-officer may, on the application of either party, appoint such person as he thinks fit to be a referee to divide or appraise the produce.