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| (1) Where on the date of the coming into operation of this Law in any Administrative District any agricultural labourer or agricultural laborers, is a cultivator or are cultivators of any extent of paddy land which wholly or mainly lies in the Administrative District and there is no person who is under this Law an owner cultivator or a tenant cultivator of that extent, the Cultivation Committee within whose local jurisdiction that extent wholly or mainly lies may, with the written approval of the Agricultural Productivity Committee and after giving written notice thereof to the landlord of that extent, appoint in writing such agricultural labourer to, be the tenant cultivator of that extent or appoint each of such agricultural labourers to be the tenant cultivator of such portion of that extent as shall be determined by such Cultivation Committee. |
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| (2) The Agricultural Productivity Committee-
| | (a) shall not approve the appointment of an agricultural labourer as the tenant cultivator of such extent of paddy land as is referred to in subsection (1) or as the tenant cultivator of any portion of that extent if it is satisfied that the owner of that extent, cultivated it with the assistance of hired labourers before April 12, 1956, and that a,, reasonable standard of efficient production as regards both the quantity and the quality of the produce from that extent is maintained in respect of that extent by its owner, | | |
| | (b) shall not approve the appointment of each of several agricultural labourers to be the tenant cultivator of such portion of that extent as may be determined by the Cultivation Committee within whose local jurisdiction that extent wholly or mainly lies, if the Agricultural Productivity Committee considers that it is not in the interests of cultivation to divide that extent into plots. | | |
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| (3) Where a Cultivation Committee appoints an. agricultural labourer to be a tenant cultivator of any extent of paddy land under subsection (1), he shall, subject to the provisions of this Law be such tenant cultivator. |
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