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Issue of pattas and other documents to landholders.-(1) Af:.. soon as may be after the appomted day, the Government !>hall tssue pattas or other documents ev1dencmg the full jJropnetary nghts of the landholders in the1r holdmgs (2) The paLrtas or other documents issued under sub- sectiOn (1) shall contain such particulars as may be prescnbed 10 Appointment of officers to settle compensation pay- able by landholders and for issue of pattas.-The Government may appoint or authonse such officer or officers as .they deem necessary for the purpose of makmg enquiry and determmmg 1he compensatiOn payable by the landholders to the Govern- ment under sectwn 7 and for the tssue of pattas or olher documents under sectwn 9 11 Appeal.-(1) Any person aggneved by an order of any officer :tppomted m· authorised under section 10 may appeal to tht. Dtstrict Collectpr, Tnvandrum or any other officer emr'J\\'ered In this behalf by the Government, Wlthm s1xty days from the date of the order. 199 Exp)anation.-For the purpose of computmg the said penod of SI"-tY days. the date of commumcat10n of a copy of the order to the appellant shall be deemed to be the date of the order. (2) A copy of every order agrunst which an appeal hes under sub-sectiOn (1) shall be commumcated m such manner as may be prescnbed 12 Revision.-(1) The Board of Revenue may, e1ther of 1ts own motwn or on applicatiOn by any person aggneved by an order pa1-sed by any officer under th1s Act. call for and examme the record of any proceedmg m wh1ch such order has been passed, for the purpose of satisfying Itself as to the legality, regulanty or propnety of such order or proceedmg and pass such order thereon as 1t thmks fit Provided that the Board of Revenue shall not call for the record of any proceedmg If an appeal agamst the order to whtch the proceedmg relates iS pending or 1f the t1me for -rreferring appeal against such order has not exptred (2) The Bodrd oi Revenue shall not of If!> own motwn call for _and examme the record of any proceedmg under sub- ~ectwn (1) tf the order to wh1ch the proceedmg relates has tleen made more than two years previously (3) In the case ol an application under sub-sect10n (1) by any person aggrieved. the application shall be made WI·thm 1wu years from the date of the order m question 13 Collection of arrears of rent.-(1) Wtth effect on and from the appomted day, the Temple shall not be entttled tu collect any rent whtch accrued due to 1t from any landholder 10 respect of hts holdmg before, and IS outstandmg on, that day, but the Tahstldar of tthe taluk in whtch the holdmg 1s situate shall be enlt.Itled to collect all such arrears of rent and any mterest payable thereon as if they were arrears of pubhc revenue due on land : Provtded that if a landholder pays w1thm two years from the appomted day, in such manner as may be prescnbed, an amount equal 1to the alTears of rent for a financial year or the actual arrears outstandmg on the appomted day, whichever is less, together with mterest thereon, all arrears of rent shall be deemed to be fully discharged and no sutt or other proceedmgs shall lie or contmue for the recovery thereof. 2oo (2) Where the annual rent on any land comprised in a holdmg or part thereof IS fixed m paddy, !:>Uch annual rent shall. for the purpose.; of this sectiOn, be commuted mto money at :the rate of two rupees and twelve paise per standard para of paddy : Provided that m respect of the lands m the Chtraymki~ taluk, for which the commutahon rate adopted has beer. etght and a half chakrams per para of paddy, the commuta- tiOn rate shall be thirty patse per standard para of paddy. Explanation.-For the purposes of thiS sub-sectwt. ''standard para" means the measure eqUivalent to 13 11 htre!. (3) All amount~ paid or collected under sub-sectiOn (1) shall be patd to the Temple after deductmg- (a) five per cent thereof by way of collection charges; (b) the amount If any, due from the Temple to the Government , and (c) the rent, ll any, collected before the appomted day by the Temple from any landholdEr m respect of the financial year m which the appointed day falls or dt'ly sub- ~equent financtal year 14 Certain amount~ to be first charge.-The compensa- tiOn payable by a landholder under sectiOn 7 and any amount whtch the Tahstldar IS entttled to collect under sub-sectwn ( 1) of sectiOn 13 shall be a first charge upon the land m respect of whtch such compensatiOn or amount ts payable. subject Pnly to the charge for baste tax. 15 Provision for Melkanganam stafi.-Notwtthstandmg <my law, custom or contract to the contrary. the following provtsions shall apply m regard to the persons employed m the Melkanganam Branch of 'the Sree Pandaravaka Depart- ment tmmedtately before the appomted day, namely:- (a) The Government shall have power to termmate the servtces of any such person after gtvmg htm one calendar month's notice or paymJ htm one month's pay m heu of such notice; (b) persons whose servtces are retamed shall be governed by such rule!> as the Government may make m cegard to 'them. l 1 l I j l 1 I 201 16 Administration of temples under management of Melkanganam.-Notwtthc:;tandmg dny law. custom or contract to the contrary, the fvllowmg temples whtch have hitherto been adm1mstered by the Melkanganam Branch of the Sree Pandaravaka Departm :mt shall, on and from the appomted day. be admm1stered by the Executive Officer appomted under sub-sectiOn (2) of sect1nn 18 of the Travancore-Cochm Hmdu Rehgwus InstitutiOns Act, 1950 (XV of 1 H50), m accordance with the prO\·JSJOns of that Act - (a) Sree Subramoma Swamy Temple, Puthenchanthdl, Tnvandrum, (b) Sabhapath1 Temple, Chala1, T11vandrum ; dnd (c) Sree Vazhtchal Kanthan Sastha Temple, Vazh1chal. Neyyattmkara Taluk. 17 Finality of orders.-(!) Any order passed by any ·fficer under th1s Act m respect of matters to be determmed for the purposes of th!s Act shall, subJect only to any appeal or revisiOn prov1ded under this Act, be find) (2) No such order shall be liable to be questwned m any court of law 13 Indemnity.-(!) No stut or other legal proceedmgs shdll he agamst the Go\ ernment for dny act wh1ch 1s m good fcuth done or mtended fo be done under thts Act or any rule made thereunder (2) No suit. pru~ecutwn or other legal p1oceedmgs shall be mst1tuted agamst any officer or person duly appomted, authonsed or empowered under th1s Act 111 respect of any· thmg wh1ch IS m good fa1th done or mtended to be done under th1s Act or any rule made thereunder