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(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force or any contract or other instrument having force by virtue of any such law, any lending, whether in cash or kind, for any purpose whatsoever, either without any security or on the security of any property, made by any person to a Tribal before the appointed date, shall be deemed to be invalid and void ab initio, and thereupon the provisions of the Maharashtra Debt Relief Act, 1975, shall apply to such invalid and void debts as they apply in relation to debts which are deemed to be wholly discharged under that Act. Explanation.—For the purposes of this sub-section, “a Tribal” means a Tribal who is either a marginal farmer, a rural artisan or a rural labourer, 1[and who is not an assessee under the Income-tax Act, 1961, on the appointed date] or who on the appointed date holds land not more than 9 hectares of unirrigated land or 3 hectares of perennially irrigated land. Where a Tribal holds unirrigated land as well as perennially irrigated land, one hectare of perennially irrigated land shall be considered as equivalent to three hectares of unirrigated land and vice versa. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, no person shall, after the appointed date, lend anything, whether in cash or in kind, for any purpose whatsoever, to a Tribal either without any security or on the security of any property or bind down any Tribal to daily attendance, or to manual labour or to both until the loan is repaid and any such lending made, on or after the appointed date by any person to a Tribal, shall be deemed to be invalid and void ab initio, and if any such lending is made on the security of any property, such property shall be forthwith delivered to the Tribal. (3) Unless the claim to the property is disputed, if the property is not delivered forthwith, the Tribal may request the Commissioner of Police where there is one, and elsewhere, the District Magistrate or the Superintendent of Police, to enforce delivery of possession of such property. The Commissioner of Police, the District Magistrate, or as the case may be, the Superintendent of Police, shall take or cause to be taken such steps, or use or cause to be used such force as may be reasonably necessary, for securing delivery of the possession of the property, to the Tribal. 4 The Maharashtra Tribals Economic Condition [1977 : Mah. V (Improvement) Act, 1976 Effect of Act, rules, etc., inconsistent with other enactments. Mah. III of