Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Amendment of Section 13 of Assam Act VIII of 1936.— (1) In the proviso (i») to Section 13 of the Principal Act, after the words “industrial purposes” and before the words “ the assessment”, the following shall be inserted, namely:— “or if the soil of any estate has permanently im proved or deteriorated through causes beyond the control of the settlement holder” . (2) At the end of the existing provisos to Section 13 of the Principal Act the following new proviso shall be added, namely:— (fit) that, if, after the expiry of every fifteen years, the average level of prices of Agricultural produce for the last fifteen years has, in the opinion of the State Government changed by more than 25 p er cent from the average price level of the period of fifteen years preceding the last a fifteen years, then the assessment may be revised at any time after the expiration o f the last fifteen years by increasing or reducing the assessment according as the prices rise or fall, in the manner set out below:— Changes in prices Changes in Lan d Revenue («) Up to 25 per cent (Z>) Above 25 per cent and bu t not above 31J per cent. (c) Above 311 per cent but not above 37J per cent. (</) Above 37 j per cent but not above 43J per cent. (?) Above 431 per cent Nil. 3 j per cent. 6 | per cent. 9 j per cent. 12| per cent.