Section 8State of Punjab Act
Section 8: Rent which should not have been paid may be recovered
Rent which should not have been paid may be recovered.
(1)
Where any sum has, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, been paid which sum is by reason of the provisions of this Act irrecoverable, such sum shall, at any time within a period of six months after the date of the payment, or in the case of a payment made before the commencement of this Act, within six months after the commencement thereof, be recoverable by the tenant by whom it was paid or his legal representative from the landlord who received the payment or his legal representative, and may without prejudice to any other method of recovery be deducted by such tenant from any rent payable within such six months by him to such landlord.(2)
In this Section the expression "legal representative" has the same meaning as in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, and includes also in the case of joint family property, the joint family of which the deceased person was a member.Previous
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