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| (1) Before the commencement of each term of insurance for the specified area in which the insurance unit of any person or persons is wholly or mainly situated, he or they shall, subject to the provisions of subsection (3) and subsection (4), be deemed to have entered into a contract of insurance with the Commissioner against the loss of any specified crop on that unit due to any such cause (hereafter in this Act referred to as a " specified cause ") as the Minister may specify by Order published in the Gazette. |
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| (2) Every specified cause shall be notified to the public by the Commissioner in each specified area in such manner as he may determine. |
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| (3) Where co-owners of an insurance unit cultivate that unit in rotation under the system of cultivation known as "thattu maru ", then, subject to the provisions of subsection (4), the co-owner who cultivates that unit for any season shall, before the commencement of that season, be deemed to have entered into a contract of insurance for that season with the Commissioner against the loss of any specified crop on that unit due to any specified cause: |
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| (4) A Deputy Commissioner or the Senior Assistant Commissioner or any other officer authorized in that behalf by the Commissioner may exempt any person from the provisions of subsection (1) or subsection (3). |
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