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Agricultural Lands Act (No. 42 of 1973) - Sect 16

Power of Agricultural Productivity Committee to appoint tenant cultivator

16.
(1) Where there is no tenant cultivator in respect of an extent of paddy land and such extent is not cultivated for two or more successive seasons, the Agricultural Productivity Committee may, subject to the provisions of subsection (2), appoint, in consultation with the Cultivation Committee within whose local jurisdiction such extent wholly or mainly lies, the cultivator of any extent of paddy land which is situated within the local jurisdiction of such Cultivation Committee and which, in the opinion of the Agricultural Productivity Committee, is an uneconomic extent, or any agricultural labourer resident within the local jurisdiction of such Cultivation Committee, to be the tenant cultivator of the first-mentioned extent or any part thereof, and upon such appointment, the appointee shall, subject to the provisions of this Law be the tenant cultivator of such extent or such part, as the case may be.
(2) No appointment under subsection (1) shall be made by the Agricultural Productivity Committee in respect of any extent of paddy land or part thereof unless-
(a) it has given written notice of its intention so to do to the landlord, of such extent, and
(b) the landlord, of such extent has failed to show, within such time as shall be specified in such notice, sufficient cause against the making of such appointment.
(3) Where any such extent of paddy land as is mentioned first in subsection (1) or part thereof is occupied and used by any person at the time a tenant cultivator is appointed, under that subsection in respect of that extent or part, as the case may be, the Agricultural Productivity Committee within whose local jurisdiction such extent wholly or mainly lies shall in writing order such, person, to vacate such extent or part-on or before such date as shall be specified in such order. If such person fails to comply with such order, he shall be evicted from such extent in accordance with the provisions of section 4 as if such order were an order made by the Tribunal.

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