Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Where there has been a damage to, or a failure of, crops owing to causes beyond the control of the tenant in any holding, the tenant shall be entitled to a remission of the rent payable by him in proportion to the extent of such damage or failure. [(2) The Tahsildar of the taluk in which the holding is situate or any other officer not below the rank of Tahsildar authorised by the Government in this behalf by notification in the Gazette may, either suo motu or on application by a tenant determine, after such enquiry as may be prescribed, the extent of damage to, or failure of, crops under sub-section (1) and order such remission of rent as appears to him just and proper. (3) Any person aggrieved by the order of the Tahsildar or the other officer under sub-section (2) may, within a period of sixty days from the date of the order, appeal against such order to the Revenue Divisional Officer having jurisdiction over the area in which the holding is situate, and the Revenue Divisional Officer may pass such order on the appeal as he thinks fit. (3A) The order of the Revenue Divisional officer under sub-section (3) and the order of the Tahsildar or the other officer under sub-section (2) in cases where no appeal has been preferred under sub-section (3) within the time specified therefor, or the appeal preferred has been dismissed, shall be final, and the tenant shall be entitled to get the benefit of the remission so ordered. (3B) If in any proceeding under sub-section (2) or sub section (3), any question arises as to whether a person is or is not a tenant, it shall be competent for the Tahsildar or the other officer or the Revenue Divisional Officer, as the case may be, to decide such question for the purposes of this section.] (4) Where in respect of a holding, there is an intermediary and the rent to which the intermediary is entitled is reduced as a result of the remission granted under [sub-section (2) or sub-section (3),] the rent payable by the intermediary to his landlord shall be reduced in the same proportion. Explanation.-- For the purposes of this section, the term "crops" shall include cereal as well as cash crops. Substituted by Act 35 of 1969.