THE MAHARASHTRA TENANCY ANDAGRICULTURAL LANDS ACT.

CHAPTER I

PRELIMINARY

1. Short title and extent.
2. Definitions.

CHAPTER II

GENERAL PROVISIONS REGARDING TENANCIES
3. Application of Chapter V of Transfer of PropertyAct.
4. Persons to be deemed tenants.
4A. Protected tenants.
4B. Tenancy not to be terminated by efflux of time.
5. Ceiling area.
6. Economic holding.
6A. Irrigated land.
7. Power of Government to vary ceiling area and economic holding.
8. Rent and its maximum and minimum.
9. Rate of rent payable by tenant to his landlord.
9A. Quantum of rent payable by tenant to landlord.
9B. Landlord not liable to make contribution towards cost of cultivation.
9C. Liability of tenant to payment until rent isfixed under preceding sections.
10. Refund of rent recovered in contravention of the provisions of the Act and
other penalties.
10A. Liability of tenant to pay land revenue and certain other cesses.

11. Abolition of all cesses, etc.
12. [Deleted].
13. Suspension or remission of rent.
14. Termination of tenancy for default of tenant.
15. Termination of tenancy by surrender thereof.

16. Bar to eviction from dwelling houses.
17. Tenant to be given first option of purchasing site on which he has built a
dwelling house.
17A. Tenant’sright to purchase sitesreferred to in section 16.
17B. Tenant to be deemed to have purchased sitesreferred to in section 16 from
specified date.
18. Dwelling houses of agricultural labourers, etc.
19. Tenant’s right to trees planted by him.
20. Right to produce of naturally growing trees.
21. [Deleted].
22. Tenantsresponsible for maintenance of boundary marks.
23. Repairs of protective bunds.
24. Relief against termination of tenancy in certain cases.
25. Relief against termination of tenancy for non-payment of rent.
25A. Tenancy to be in abeyance during usufructuary mortgage in favour of tenant.
26. Receiptsfor rent.
27. Sub-division, sub-letting and assignment prohibited.
28. Bar to attachment, seizure or sale by process of court.
29. Procedure of taking possession.
29A. Provisions ofsection 29 to apply to sites used for allied pursuits.
30. Rights and privileges of tenants not to be affected.

CHAPTER III

SPECIAL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF TENANTS AND PROVISIONS FOR
DISTRIBUTION OF LAND FOR PERSONAL CULTIVATION
(I) Termination of tenancy for personal cultivation and
non-agricultural use.
31. Landlord’s right to terminate tenancy for personal cultivation and nonagricultural purpose.
31A. Conditions of termination of tenancy.
31B. No termination of tenancy in contravention of Bom. LXII of 1947 or if
tenant is member of co-operative farming society.
31BB. [Deleted].

31C. Landlord not entitled to terminate tenancy for personal cultivation of land
left with tenant.
31D. Apportionment ofrent after termination of tenancy for land left with tenant.
(II) Purchase of land by tenants
32. Tenants deemed to have purchased land on tillers day.
32A. Tenants deemed to have purchased up to ceiling area.
32B. When tenants not deemed to have purchased lands.
32C. When tenants entitled to choose lands to be purchased.
32D. When tenants deemed to have purchased fragments.
32E. Disposal of balance of lands after purchase by tenants.
32F. Right of tenant to purchase where landlord is minor, etc.
32G. Tribunal to issue notices and determine price ofland to be paid by tenants.
32H. Purchase price and its maxima.
32I. Sub-tenant of permanent tenant to be deemed to have purchased land.
32J. [Deleted].
32K. Mode of payment of price by tenant-purchaser and the power ofTribunal
to recover purchase price.
32L. [Repealed].
32M. Purchase to be ineffective on tenant-purchaser’sfailure to pay purchase
price.
32MM. Certain purchases not to become ineffective.
32N. Landlord’sright to recover rent when purchase becomes ineffective.
32O. Right of tenant whose tenancy is created after tiller’s day to purchase
land.
32P. Power ofTribunal to resume and dispose ofland not purchased by tenants.
32Q. Amount of purchase price to be applied towards satisfaction of debts.
32R. Purchaser to be evicted if he fails to cultivate personally.
33. Right of tenantsto exchange land.
(IIA) Termination of tenancy by Landlords, and purchase by tenants,
of lands to which section 88C applies.
33A. Definitions.
33B. Special right of certificated landlord to terminate tenancy for personal
cultivation.
33C. Tenants oflands mentioned in section 88C to be deemed to have purchased

(III) Restriction upon holding Land in excess of ceiling area.
34. [Deleted].
34A. Holders of land to furnish particulars of land to Mamlatdar.
35. [Deleted].
35A. Determination of excess land cases.
36. Fragment in excess of economic holding or ceiling area may be permitted
to remain with holder.
37. Landlord to restore possession if he fails to cultivate within one year.
38. [Deleted].
39. Application for recovery of possession by tenant.
40. Continuance of tenancy on death of tenant.
41. Compensation for improvement made by tenant.
42. Tenant’s right to erect farm-house.
43. Restriction on transfer of land purchased orsold under this Act