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Where, in any suit or other proceeding for the eviction of a cultivating tenant, a holder of a kudiyiruppu or a kudikidappukaran, from his holding kudiyiruppu or kudikidappu, as the case may be, whether pending at the commencement of this Act or instituted after such commencement, the cultivating tenant, or the holder of a kudiyiruppu or the kudikidappukaran, makes a representation to the court in which such suit or other proceeding is pending or instituted that no record of rights in respect of the holding or register of kudikidappukars in respect of the village in which the kudikidappu is situate, as the case may be, has been prepared, the court shall not proceed with the suit or proceeding until the record of rights in respect of the holding or the register of kudikidappukars, as the case may be, is prepared and made available to it and the court shall also by order direct the officer specified under sub-section (3) of section 35, to prepare a record of rights in respect of the holding, or, as the case may be, a register of kudikidappukars and to file the same in court, and such officer shall cause the same to be prepared in the manner prescribed. 163 CHAPTER - III RESTRICTION ON OWNERSHIP AND POSSESSION OF LAND IN EXCESS OF CEILING AREA AND DISPOSAL OF EXCESS LANDS Exemptions