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| (1) An insurance policy issued under section 13 in respect of any insurance unit shall be deemed to cover such unit during the period of cultivation in each season in the term of the insurance: |
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| (2) The Minister may, before the commencement of a term of insurance for any specified area in which any specified crop is cultivated during the Maha season and the Yala season, declare, by Order published in the Gazette, that the expression " each season " occurring in subsection (1) shall, in the application of that sub-section to an insurance policy issued under section 13 in respect of an insurance unit wholly or mainly situated in that specified area, be deemed not to include the Yala season: |
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| (3) A Deputy Commissioner or the Senior Assistant Commissioner or any other officer authorized in that behalf by the Commissioner shall determine the cultivation period for each specified area in respect of each season, and shall notify, in such manner as he may consider expedient, the determination to the owners and tenants of the lands constituting the insurable acreage in that area. A Deputy Commissioner or the Senior Assistant Commissioner or any other officer authorized in that behalf by the Commissioner may amend a determination in force under this subsection, and any such amendment shall be notified in like manner as the determination to which the amendment relates and shall take effect from the season succeeding that in which the amendment is made. |
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