Central · Act 11 of 1859

Section 5 — Proviso in the case of certain descriptions of arrears.

The Bengal Land Revenue Sales Act, 1859

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Provided always that no estate, and no share or interest in any estate, shall be sold for the recovery of arrears or demands of the descriptions mentioned below, otherwise than after a notification in the language of the district specifying the nature and amount of the arrear or demand, and the latest date on which payment thereof shall be received, shall have been affixed for a period of not less than fifteen clear days preceding the date fixed for payment according to Section III of this Act, in the Office of the Collector or other Officer duly authorized to hold sales under this Act, in the Court of the Judge within whose jurisdiction the land advertised lies, and in the Moonsiff’s Court and Police thannah of the division in which the estate or share of an estate to which the notification relates is situated; or is the estate or share of an estate be situated within the jurisdiction of more than one Moonsiff’s Court or Police Thannah, in some one or more of such Courts or Thannas ; and also at the cutcherry of the malgoozar or owner of the estate or share of an estate, or at some conspicuous place upon the estate or share of an estate, the same to be certified by the peon or other person employed for the purpose.

First. Arrears other than those of the current year, or of the year immediately preceding.

Secondly. Arrears due on account of estates other than that to be sold.

Thirdly. Arrears of estates under attachment by order of any judicial authority, or managed by the Collector in accordance with such order.

Fourthly. Arrears due on account of tuccavee, poolbundee, or other demands not being land revenue, but recoverable by the same process as arrears of land revenue.

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Next · Section 6Notifications of sale to be issued, and no tender after latest day of payment to stop the sale. →All sections / सभी धाराएँThe Bengal Land Revenue Sales Act, 1859 →
More sections of this actSection 1 · Laws repealed.Section 2 · What is an arrear of revenue.Section 3 · Latest day of payment.Section 4 · In Sylhet, personal property of defaulters may in the first instance be distrained and sold.Section 6 · Notifications of sale to be issued, and no tender after latest day of payment to stop the sale.Section 7 · Notice to ryots, &.Section 8 · Claims against Government held by a defaulter not to invalidate a sale.Section 9 · Deposits receivable from persons not proprietors.
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