Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Where rent is due to the pro prietor, land- receip t of bolder, manager or mortgagee of an estate, the r c g i s tr ed receipt of the person whose name has been registered pro pricto r , in the general registers maintained under Chapter IV landholder., of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation as pro- i of 1886, mcrt^gee°r Pr le t o r> landholder, manager or mortgagee of th at estate, or of his agent authorised in th at behalf, shal( be a sufficient discharge for the rent due to such pro prietor, landholder, manager or mortgagee, and the person liable tor the ren t shall not be entitled to plead in defence to a claim by the person so registered that the rent is due to any third person ; but nothing in this section shall affect any remedy which any such third person may h >ve against the registered proprie tor, landholder, manager or mortgagee. D eposit of R en t to'dcposiV'o" ^4. 1° a n Y °f following cases, namely— re nt in court (c) When the landlord refuses to accept any instalm ent of rent payable in cash when tendered to him by a tenant, or when the tena nt entertains a bona fide doub as to who is entitled to receive the rent payable in cash, the tenant may apply, in the manner prescribed, to the Revenue C ourt for permission to deposit in the Court a sum not less than the amount then due and »» the Court shall receive the deposit if it appears after examning the applican t that the application is made in goiod faith and on reasonable grounds and if the applicant pays in case (a)—the prescribed cost of trans mission of the money deposited to the landlord and in case (&)—th e fee chargeable for the issue of the notice referred to in section 56 in addition to the prescribed cost of transmission of the rent deposited. 31