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  "text": "Page 1 of 3 \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nTHE WEST PAKISTAN AGRICULTURISTS’ LOANS ACT, 1958 \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nCONTENTS \r\nPreamble \r\n1. Short title and extent \r\n2. Power of Government to make rules \r\n3. Recovery of loans \r\n4. Liability of joint borrowers as among themselves \r\n5. Repeal and savings \r\n  \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nPage 2 of 3 \r\n \r\nTHE WEST PAKISTAN AGRICULTURISTS’ LOANS ACT, 1958 \r\nWEST PAKISTAN ACT No.  of 1958 \r\n[17th April, 1958] \r\nAN  \r\nACT \r\nto consolidate the law relating to the advancement and recovery of taccavi loans for agricultural \r\npurposes in the Province of West Pakistan. \r\nPreamble. WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate the law relating to the advancement and \r\nrecovery of taccavi loans for agricultural purposes in the Province of West Pakistan; \r\nIt is hereby enacted as follows:__ \r\n1. Short title and extent. (1) This Act may be called the West Pakistan Agriculturists’ Loans \r\nAct, 1958. \r\n1[(2) It extends to the whole of the Province of West Pakistan, except the Tribal Areas.] \r\n2. Power of Government to make rules. (1) Government may make rules as to:__ \r\n(a) loans to be made to owners and occupiers of arable land for the relief of distress, \r\npurchase of land, cattle and seed and other agricultural purposes; and \r\n(b) sale of seed on credit to owners and occupiers of agricultural land. \r\n(2) All such rules shall be published in the Official Gazette. \r\n3. Recovery of loans. The loans made, the price of seed sold and the interest (if any) chargeable \r\nthereon, together with the cost of recovery, if any, shall be recoverable as arrears of land revenue from \r\nthe persons to whom the loans were made or the seed was sold or their sureties. \r\n4. Liability of joint borrowers as among themselves . When a joint loan is made under this \r\nAct to members of a village community or any other persons on such terms that all of them are jointly \r\nand severally bound to pay the whole amount and a statement showing the shares of the various \r\nborrowers, signed, marked, or sealed by such of them or their duly authorized agents and  the officer \r\nmaking the order is entered upon the order granting the loan that statement shall be conclusive evidence \r\nof the share which each of those borrowers is bound to contribute. \r\n5. Repeal and savings. (1) The following enactments are hereby repealed:__ \r\n(a) the Agriculturists’ Loans Act, 1884 (XII of 1884); \r\n(b) the Agriculturists’ Loans (Punjab Amendment) Act, 1951 (Punjab X of 1951); \r\n \r\n1Subs. by the West Pakistan Laws (Extension to Karachi) Ordinance, 1964 (W. P. Ord. No. VII of 1964), s. 2 and Schedule.  \r\n \r\n \r\nPage 3 of 3 \r\n \r\n(c) the Agriculturists’ Loans (Punjab Amendment) Act, 1955 (Punjab V of 1955); \r\n(d) the Agriculturists’ Loans (Sind Amendment) Act, 1941 (Sind X of 1941); \r\n(e) the Khairpur State Agriculturists’ Loans Act, 1952 (Khairpur VIII of 1952); and \r\n(f) the West Pakistan Agriculturists’ Loans Ordinance, 1958  (West Pakistan \r\nOrdinance III of 1958). \r\n(2) All rules, appointments and orders made, authorities and powers conferred, liabilities \r\nincurred, times and places appointed and other things done under any of the repealed enactments \r\nmentioned in sub-section (1) shall, so far as may, be deemed to have been respectively made, conferred, \r\nincurred, appointed and done under this Act and all arrears of advances and interest shall be \r\nrecoverable under this Act. \r\n \r\n_______ \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\nRGN Date: 31-07-2025",
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