7. Section 8 of the principal enactment is hereby amended by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection:"
| "(1) Where a tenant cultivator of any extent of paddy land, other than a tenant cultivator who cultivates such extent either jointly or in rotation with any other tenant cultivator, dies, his rights under this Act in respect of such extent shall devolve on the surviving spouse of such tenant cultivator and failing such spouse on only one of the children of such tenant cultivator, the eldest being preferred to the others where there are more children than one, provided that ;he successor to the deceased tenant cultivator's rights is a person who is not permanently employed and whose main occupation is cultivation of paddy. ". |
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