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The cultivating tenant of any holding or part of a holding, the right, title and interest in respect of which have vested in the Government under section 80, shall be entitled to assignment of such right, title and interest: Provided that --- (a) no cultivating tenant shall be entitled to assignment of the right, title and interest in respect of any holding or part of a holding under this section if he, or if he is a member of a family, such family owns an extent of land not less than the ceiling area; 128 (b) where the cultivating tenant or, if he is a member of a family, such family, does not own any land or owns an extent of land which is less than the ceiling area, he shall be entitled to the assignment of the right title and interest in respect of only such extent of land as will, together with the land, if any, owned by him or his family, as the case may be, be equal to the ceiling area. Explanation. -- In calculating the extent land owned by the cultivating tenant or, where he is a member of a family, by such family, for the purpose of clauses (a) and (b) of the foregoing proviso, the portion of the land owned by such cultivating tenant or by the family, which is liable to be assigned to the cultivating tenants holding under him or such family, shall not be taken into account. (2) The provisions of section 92 shall, so far as may be, apply to the calculation of the ceiling area for the purposes of the proviso to sub-section (1): Provided that if no date has been notified under section 93, the date notified under section 80 shall be deemed to be the date notified under section 93. (3) Any cultivating tenant entitled to assignment of the right, title and interest in respect of a holding or part of a holding under sub-section (1) may apply to the Land Tribunal within two years from the date of vesting of such right, title and interest in the Government under section 80, or such further time as may be allowed by the Government in this behalf, for such assignment to him. (4) An application under sub-section (3) shall contain the following particulars, namely: - (a) the village, survey number and extent of the holding or part to which the assignment relates; (b) the name and address of the landowner and intermediaries and also of every other person interested in the land and the nature of their interest so far as they are known to him; (c) the particulars regarding the other lands owned or held by him or if he is a member of a family, by such family; and (d) such other particulars as may be prescribed. 129 (5) Where a cultivating tenant is entitled to the assignment of the right, title and interest in respect of only a portion of the holding held by him, he may indicate in the application under sub-section (3) his choice of the portion to which the assignment shall relate. Right of landlord to apply for assignment and compensation