Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Persons holding office as aforesaid and ofeervices, specified in section 3 of the Madras Hereditary Village Offices Act, 1895 shall on terminaticn of their services MadeaAas under section 119 be entitled to a lump sum gratuity . to be determined in the preseribed manner subject to @ maximum ofthirty times their monthly remunera- tions and the gratuity so determined shall be a charge on the Consolidated Fund ofthe State. (2) In the case of persons other than those covered by sub-section (1) the lands he'd or enjoyed by any such person in pursuance of or incidental to the terms and conditions of service so terminated shalt be settled with rights of occupancy therein on a fair and equitable rent with such person or, ds the case may be, with him and all those other persons who may be holding the land or any part thereof as his co-sharers or as tenants under bim to the extent that each. such person was in separate and actual cultivating possession of the same immediately befor thefirst day of July 1955. . (3) The total area of land in possession of any one of such persons before it is settled with him in the manneraforesaid shall be subject to a reservation of a certain fraction thereof in favour of the Grama Sabha and the extent of such reservation shall be determined in the following manner, namely :— Land in possession Extent of Reservation Less than 10 acres oe Nil 10 acres or above but less than 8 per cent 33 acres. 33 acres or above but lesa than 10 per cont 100 acres, 100 acres or above but less than 20 per cent 200 acres. 200 acres or above «+ 80 per cent (4) The State Government may by rules made in shat bebalf specify either generally or in relation to any local area the authorities by whom and the manner in which the proceedings under this section shall be conducted, Power of