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(1) Where restoration of any land resumed is ordered under section 29, the cultivating tenant shall hold the land directly under the landlord from whom restoration has been ordered, and the rights of the intermediaries extinguished under sub-section (6) of section 15 shall not revive. (2) On such restoration, the cultivating tenant shall pay to the person who resumed the land --- (i) the amounts paid by such person to the cultivating tenant and to the intermediary, if any towards the value of the improvements effected by them and existing at the time of restoration; (ii) the value of the improvements, if any, effected bona fide by such person between the date of resumption and the date of the application; and (iii) any amount other than solatium received by the cultivating tenant form such person on account of the resumption. (3) The rent payable by the cultivating tenant after the restoration of the holding shall be the fair rent. 95 Contract rent in the case of certain tenants *[ 31A. (1) Where a person who is a tenant for the purposes of this Act as amended by the Mahe Land Reforms (Amendment) Act, 1980, was, before the commencement of the said Amendment Act, not under an obligation to pay rent, the contract rent for the purposes of this Act shall be deemed to be, -- (a) where there has been a stipulation in the document for the periodical payment of any amount by such person, such amount; (b) in the case of a varamdar, the average of the share of the landlord in the paddy produce for the three years immediately preceding the commencement of this Act or where the varamdar was not cultivating the land continuously for the said period of three years, the share of the landlord for the year in which the varamdar cultivated the land last immediately before such commencement; (c) in any other case, four rupees per acre. (2) In the case of a cultivating tenant referred to in sub-section (3) of section 31, the contract rent for the purposes of this Act shall be the contract rent or the proportionate contract rent in respect of the holding or part thereof which is resumed under this Act, at the time of resumption. Determination of proportionate rent