Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Where there has been a damage to, or a failure of crops owing to causes beyond the control of the tenant in any holding the tenant shall be entitled to a remission of the rent payable by him in proportion to the extent of such damage or failure. *[(2) The Deputy Tahsildar, may, either Suo motu or on application by a tenant, determine after such enquiry as may be prescribed, the extent of damage to, or failure of, crops under sub-section (1) and order such remission of rent as appears to him just and proper. (3) Any person aggrieved by the order of the Deputy Tahsildar or the other officer under sub-section (2) may, within a period of sixty days from the date of the order, appeal against such order to the Deputy Collector (Revenue), Mahe, who may pass such order on the appeal as he thinks fit. ________________________________________________________________________ * Amended vide Act No.1 of 1981 w.e.f 1-4-1981vide Notification published in the Extraordinary Gazette No.32 dated 30.03.1981. 104 (3A) The order of the Deputy Collector (Revenue), Mahe, under sub-section (3) and the order of the Deputy Tahsildar or the other officer under sub-section (2) in cases where no appeal has been preferred under sub-section (3) within the time specified therefor, or the appeal preferred has been dismissed, shall be final and the tenant shall be entitled to get the benefit of the remission so ordered. (3B) If in any proceeding under sub-section (2) or sub-section (3), any question arises as to whether a person is or is not a tenant, it shall be competent for the Deputy Tahsildar or the other officer or the Deputy Collector (Revenue), Mahe, as the case may be, to decide such question for the purposes of this section;] (4) Where, in respect of a holding, there is an intermediary and the rent to which the intermediary is entitled is reduced as a result of the remission grated under *[sub-section (2) or sub-section (3),] the rent payable by the intermediary to his landlord shall be reduced in the same proportion. Explanation. – For the purposes of this section, the term “crops” shall include cereal as well as cash crops. Abatement or reduction of rent