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(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any law, custom, usage or contract or any decree or order of court, no cultivating tenant shall be evicted from his holding or any part thereof, by or at the instance of his landlord except as provided in this section. (2) Subject to the next succeeding sub-section, sub-section (1) shall not apply to a cultivating tenant --- (a) who, in the areas where the Karaikal Tenants Protection Order, 1960 was in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, if in arrear at such commencement with respect to the rent payable to the landlord does not pay such within such time as may be prescribed or who in respect of rent payable to the landlord after the commencement of this Act, does not pay such rent within a month, after such rent becomes due; or (b) who, in the other areas, if in arrear at the commencement of this act, with respect to the rent payable to the landlord and accrued due subsequent to 31st March, 1970, does not pay such rent within such time as may be prescribed, or who in respect of rent payable to the landlord after the commencement of this Act, does not pay such rent within a month after such rent becomes due; or (c) who has done any act or has been guilty of any negligence which is destructive of, or injurious to, the land or any crop thereon or has altogether ceased to cultivate the land; or who has used the land or any purpose not being an agricultural or horticultural purpose; or (d) who has wilfully denied the title of the landlord to the land; ______________________________________________________________________________