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Amendment of Section S of Assam Act XII of 1948.—The entire Clause (i), including the Explanation below it, of sub-section (1) of Sec- tion 5 shall be substituted by the following, namely “(i) that the land is bonafide required by the landlord for his personal cultivation ; Provided that,— (a) if the aggregate area of lands in actual occupation of an adhiar does not exceed 10 bighas, then he shall not be evicted therefrom, until he has been provided with land of equivalent value in the locality ; (b) if the aggregate area of lands in actual occupation of an adhiar exceeds 10 bighas-, then the adhiar shall not be evicted from a minimum area of 10 bighas as selected by him (adhiar), until he has been provided with land of equivalent value in, the locality, but the landlord shall be entitled to resume for his personal cultivation any area in excess of these 10 bighas. Tn no case, however, the aggregate area of lands so resumed from all his adliiars taken together, along with any other land already held under per sonal cultivation by the landlord or any member of his family on the date of resumption, shall exceed an overall limit of 100 bighas; (c) if the landlord is a minor, or a widow, or a person subjected to any physical or mental disability or a member of the Military, Naval or Air Forces of the Union, then it shall not be obligatory on him to leave a minimum area with the adliiar as provided for in (a) or (b) above; (d) if the landlord does not cultivate the land within one year or sublets it to others within two years from the date he gets possession of the land by virtue of this clause, the evicted adhiar shall be restored to possession in the manner prescribed.”