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Protectwn of dctJOn taken under the Act. 26 Bar of JUriSdiCtiOn of c1v1l courts 27 Rates of commutatwn 28 Power to remove dlf'ficultJes 29 Power to make rules 30 Amendments to Act 1 of 196.f 31 Repeal and savmg. ; ) - - -~ -.,._ 71 THE KANAM TENANCY ABOLITION ACT, 1976• (Act 16 of 1976) An Act to provide for the abolition o{ the intermedtary ri~ht!> of jenmies in lands held by kanam tenants in the Cochin area of the State Preamble.-WHEREAS under the Kanam Tenancy Act, 1955 the kanam tenants m the Cochtn area of the Stale of Kerala are liable for the recurnng and penodical payment of Jenmtkaram to thetr Jenmtes, AND WHEREAS such Jenmtes are mtermedtarte~ between the State <tnd the culhvators and theu· rtght to rece1ve Jenmik.lram 1s a nght 111 land , AND \VHEREAS 1t ts cons1dered necessary to abolish !>uch mtermediary nght and to confer on the l<:anam tenants full propnetary nghts ove·r the1r holdmgs , BE It enacted Ill the Twenty-seventh Year oJ the Republic ol India as follo'.v s - 1 Short htle, extent and commencement.-(!) Th1c:; Act mc>y be c:JlleJ the Kanam Tenancy AbolitiOn Act, 1 C)76 (2) It e>.. tend~ to the whule of the Cochm area of the Statt: of Keraia (3) lt shall be deemed to have come mto lot ce on the 1st day of January, 1970 2 Detimtwm.-In thts Act, unless the context otherwtse reqUires.- ( a) "appomted day" means the 1st day of January, 1970; (b) "Cochm area" means the area compnsmg- (•) the p01 hun ot the State oi Kerala whtch befor<> the 1st day of July. 1 C)49. formed the State of Cochm excludmg the enclaves absorbed m the Malabar dtstnct under the Provmces and States (AbsorptiOn of Enclaves) Order, 1950: and --------------------------------- * Rccetved the assent of the Prestdcnt on the 25th day of March, lil76 and publtshed m the Kerala Gazette Extraordmary No 193, dated 2;,th March 1976 3/97-6 72 . . {ti) the enclaves which formed part of the Malabar distrtcl absorbed m the State of Travancore-Cochtn under the said Order, (c) the expressiOns "cultivatmg tenant". 'the holder of a kudiytruppu" and "wakf'' shall have the meamngc; respectively t' ( asstgned to them m the K~rab Land Reforms Act 196:3 (1 of 1964); (d) the expresstons "holding", "1enmt", "jenmtkaram" and "kanam" shall have the meanmgs respectively asstgned to 1hem m the K:=.ncom T<>nancy Act, 1955 (XXIV of 1955), (e) the expressiOn "m,;tttutwn of a publtc nature" shall mclude a pubhc trust and a wakf, (f) "kanarr. tenant" meanc; a person who holds land on kanam tenure and mcludes- (t) the hetr, asstgnee or legal 1 epresentattve of such person; or (n) a cultlVatmg tenant or holder of a kudtytruppu m whom the rtght, tttle and mterest of such person have vested under the provisions of the Kerala Land Reforms Act, 1963 (I of 1964), (g) "prescribed' means prescrtbed by rules made under thts Act, (h) "Settlement Officer'' means the Settlement Officer appomted under sect10n 23. CHAPTER II Abolition of jenmikaram