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The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908: page 56

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     portion of agricultural produce or of any class of agricultural produce as may have been declared to be free from liability
     under the provisions of the next following section;
           (c) houses and other buildings (with the materials and the sites thereof and the land immediately
     appurtenant thereto and necessary for their enjoyment) belonging to 1[an agriculturist or a labourer or a
     domestic servant] and occupied by him;
           (d) books of account;
           (e) a mere right to sue for damages;
           (f) any right of personal service;
           (g) stipends and gratuities allowed to pensioners of the Government 2[or of a local authority or of any
      other employer], or payable out of any service family pension fund 3notified in the Official Gazette by
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        [the Central Government or the State Government] in this behalf, and political pensions;
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             [(h) the wages of labourers and domestic servants, whether payable in money or in kind;
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             [(i) salary to the extent of 8[the first 9[ 10[one thousand rupees]] and two third of the remainder] 11[in
     execution of any decree other than a decree for maintenance]:
           12[Provided that where any part of such portion of the salary as is liable to attachment has been under

     attachment, whether continuously or intermittently, for a total period of twenty-four months, such portion
     shall be exempt from attachment until the expiry of a further period of twelve months, and, where such
     attachment has been made in execution of one and the same decree, shall, after the attachment has
     continued for a total period of twenty-four months, be finally exempt from attachment in execution of that
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     deecree.]]
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           11[(ia) one-third of the salary in execution of any decree for maintenance;]

           13[(j) the pay and allowances of persons to whom the Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950) or the Army

     Act, 1950 (46 of 1950), or the Navy Act, 1957 (62 of 1957), applies;]
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           (k) all compulsory deposits and other sums in or derived from any fund to which the Provident Funds
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     Act, 14[1925], (19 of 1925), for the time being applies in so far as they are declared by the said Act not to be liable
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           2[(ka) all deposits and other sums in or derived from any fund to which the Public Provident Fund

     Act, 1968 (23 of 1968), for the time being applies, in so far as they are declared by the said Act as not to be
     liable to attachment;
           (kb) all moneys payable under a policy of insurance on the life of the judgment-debtor;
           (kc) the interest of a lessee of a residential building to which the provisions of law for the time being in force
     relating to control of rents and accommodation apply;]
           15[(1) any allowance forming part of the emoluments of any 16[servant of the 17[Government]] or of any servant of a

     railway company or local authority which the 18[appropriate Government] may by notification in the Official Gazette declare
     to be exempt from attachment, and any subsistence grant or allowance made to 19[any such servant] while under
     suspension;]


1. Subs. by Act 104 of 1976, s. 23, for “an agriculturist” (w.e.f. 1-2-1977)
2. Ins. by s. 23, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-2-1977).
3. For such a notification, see Gazette of India, 1909, Pt. I, p. 5.
4. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for “the G.G. in C.”
5. Subs. by Act 9 of 1937, s. 2, for clauses (h) and (i). The amendments made by that section have no effect in respect of any
   proceedings arising out of a suit instituted before 1st June, 1937, see ibid., section 3.
6. The words “and salary, to the extent of the first hundred rupees and one-half the remainder of such salary” omitted by
   Act 5 of 1943, s. 2.
7. Subs. by s. 2, ibid., for clause (i) and the proviso.
8. Subs. by Act 26 of 1963, s. 2, for “the first hundred rupees”.
9. Subs. by Act 104 of 1976, s. 23, for “two hundred rupees and one-half the remainder” (w.e.f. 1-2-1977).
10. Subs. by Act 46 of 1999, s. 6, for “four hundred rupees” (w.e.f. 1-7-2002).
11. Ins. by Act 66 of 1956, s. 6 (w.e.f. 1-1-1957).
12. Subs. by Act 104 of 1976, s. 23, for “the proviso” (w.e.f. 1-2-1977).
13. Subs. by s. 23, ibid., for clause (j) (w.e.f. 1-2-1977).
14. Subs. by Act 9 of 1937, s. 2, for “1897”.
15. Subs. by s. 2, ibid., for the original clause (l), see also footnote 3.
16. Subs. by Act 5 of 1943, s. 2, for “public officer”.
17. Subs. by the A.O. 1950 for “crown”.
18. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for “G.G. in C”.
19. Subs. by Act 5 of 1943, s. 2, for “any such officer or servant”.



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