Land Reform Ordinance, 1984 (Ordinance No. X of 1984).

The Ordinance refers to a Bangladesh custom of leasing land, called barga, and to the tenant of that lease, the bargadar, who is an individual tending the land whose property belongs to a different owner. It states that cultivating land belonging to another person and sharing the resulting production is consented only under a barga contract. The bargadar will lose his right of use if: he fails to cultivate the assigned barga land; he has produced less than the expected average compared to other barga cultivations for that area; he has used partially or totally the land for purposes differing from agricultural production; he has renounced his right of cultivation; or he is not directly tending the barga land; or ultimately if the barga landowner reclaim the land for tending it himself. In this very case, if the owner fails in tending the land or assign it to other bargadars on the termination of the barga contract, for no reasonable cause, the competent Authority may restore land lease to the former evicted bargadar who claimed such right. The Ordinance provides also the division of the produce between the owner and the bargadar (art.12).