The Punjab Tenancy Act 1868, 28 of 1868, (Rep., Act 16 of 1887) · IV — .

Section 19. No tenant having a right of occupancy in any land shall be ejected therefrom otherwise than in execution of a decree

Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08

CHAPTER IV. OF EJECTMENT. 19. No tenant having a right of occupancy in any land shall be ejected therefrom otherwise than in execution of a decree. Such decree shall not be made, unless— (1) at the date of the decree, a decree against such tenant for an arrear of rent in respect of such land has remained unsatisfied for fifteen days or upwards; or (2) the ACT No. XXVIII of 1868. 187 (2) the landlord tenders to the tenant, in addition to any compensation to which he may be entitled under sections twenty-seven and thirty-seven (but subject to deduction in respect of the arrears of rent, if any, payable by him), such compensation as the Court thinks fit, not less than fifteen, and not more than thirty, times the amount of the net annual profits receivable by the tenant in respect of such land on an average of the three years next before the date of the tender. Nothing in the last preceding clause shall be deemed to apply to a tenant belonging to any of the classes specified in section five, or to a tenant when he or the person from whom he has inherited, has continuously occupied such land for thirty years or upwards. Ejectment of tenant without right of occupancy.

Source: India Code