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| (1) If a person who is liable to pay any sum as the whole or a part of a premium in respect of any insurance policy issued under this Act fails to pay that sum within the time allowed therefor in that policy, that sum shall be deemed to be in default and, together with the interest payable thereon under section 17,-
| | (a) may be recovered in like manner as though it were a debt due from him to the Crown, | | |
| | (b) may, where the Guaranteed Price Scheme applies to the specified crop to which the insurance policy relates, be deducted from any sum due to him as the price of any quantity of that specified crop purchased from him under that Scheme by or on behalf of the Commissioner, or | | |
| | (c) may, where such person is the landlord of any extent of paddy land to which the Paddy Lands Act, No. 1 of 1958, applies, upon a re-quest being made in that behalf by the Commissioner to the Cultivation Committee within whose local jurisdiction such extent wholly or mainly lies, be recovered for the Commissioner by that Cultivation Committee by deducting such sum and interest from the rent due to such person in respect of such extent. | | |
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| (2) Where a Cultivation Committee is requested by the Commissioner under subsection (1) to deduct any sum from the rent payable in respect of any extent of paddy land, the provisions of subsection (3) of section 25 of the Paddy Lands Act, No. 1 of 1958, shall apply' in respect of such deduction as if such Cultivation Committee were empowered by that Act to make such deduction. |
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| (3) In this section, the expressions " Cultivation Committee ", " landlord " and " paddy land " have the same meaning as in the Paddy Lands Act, No. 1 of 1958. |
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