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Payment of arrears of rent in instalments.—(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law for the time being in force, or in any contract, custom or usage or in any decree or order of any court or Land Tribunal, all arrears of rent accrued due before the 1st day of January, 1970 and outstanding at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be fully discharged if such arrears together with the interest, if any, due thereon at such commencement are paid in six equal half-yearly instalments as provided in sub-section (2). Explanation.—For the purposes of this sub-section, arrears of rent accrued due from a tenant before the 1st day of May 1968, shall be deemed to be the amount which his landloard is entitled to recover from him under section 73 of the Kerala Land Reforms Act, 1963 (1 of 1964). (2) The first instalment shall be paid on or before the expiry of six months from the commencement of this Act and each of the remaining instalments shall be paid on or before the expiry of a period of six months from the last day on which the previous instalment was due: Provided that the court or Tribunal referred to in sub-section (3) may, if it is satisfied that the tenant was prevented by sufficient cause from depositing any instalment on or before the due date, allow him to deposit the instalment before the expiry of fifteen days from the due date. * Received tha assent of the President on the 2nd November, 1979 and published in the Kerala Gazette Extraordunary No. 789, dated 3rd November, 1979. 3 (3) The instalments payable under sub-section (2) shall be paid, or deposited in the court or Land Tribunal before which proceedings for recovery of the arrears of rent are pending, or, where no such proceedings are pending, in such court or Tribunal as may be specified by the Government in this behalf, for payment to the person entitled thereto.