UTTAR PRADESH TENANCY ACT, 1939
No: 17 Dated: Dec, 06 1939
UTTAR PRADESH TENANCY ACT, 1939
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1. (1) This Act may be called the United Provinces Tenancy Act, 1939.
(2) It extends to the whole of the Uttar Pradesh except the areas specified in the First Schedule, the Jaunsar Bawar Pargana of the Dehra Dun District and the portion of the Mirzapur District south of the Kaimur range:
Provided that the State Government may, be notification in the official Gazette, extend the whole or any part of this Act to the whole or any portion of the area specified in the First Schedule subject to such modification, if any, as it thinks fit :
Provided further that when this Act or any portion of it is extended to the whole or any portion of the area specified in the First Schedule with or without modification so much of any Act or Regulation in force therein as is inconsistent with this Act or the portion so extended or with any modification made therein shall be deemed to have been repealed thereby :
Provided further that no provision of this Act which is inconsistent with the provisions of the pargana of Kaswar U.P. Raja Act, 1945, shall apply to the pargana of. Kaswar Raja in the district of Benares.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government inay, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint in this behalf.
2. (1) The Agra Tenancy Act, 1926, is hereby repealed except in respect of the areas to which this Act does not apply.
(2) The Oudh Rent Act, 1886, is hereby repealed.
3. In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context, -
(1) all words and expressions used to denote the possessor of any right, title or interest in land whether the same be proprietary or otherwise, shall be deemed to include the predecessors and successors in right, title or interest of such person;
(2) "agricultural year'' incans the years commencing on the first day of July and ending on the thirtieth day of June;