Benefit of any suspension or remission of rent

(1) Whenever by reason of any natural calamity or like circumstances the payment of the whole land revenue payable to the Government in respect of any land is suspended or remitted in accordance with such (1) In respect of the suspension or remission of land revenue under such principles as may be provided for in this behalf the landlord shall suspend or remit, as the case may be, the payment to him of the rent of such land by his tenant. If in the case of such land the land revenue is partially suspended or remitted, the landlord shall suspend or remit the rent payable by the tenant of such land in the same proportion. (2) If no land revenue is payable to Government in respect of such land and if for any reason, the payment of the whole or any part of the land revenue payable to Government in respect of any other land in the neighbourhood of such land has been suspended or remitted, the Collector, shall subject to the general or special orders of Government, in the manner provided in sub-section (1) suspend or remit as the case may be the payment to the landlord of the rent or part of it due in respect of such land. (3) No proceedings shall be taken for recovery by a landlord of any rent, the payment of which has been remitted or suspended or during the period for which the payment of such rent has been remitted or suspended under this section. The period during which the payment of rent is remitted or suspended under this section shall be excluded in computing the period of limitation prescribed for any proceeding for the recovery of such rent. (4) If any landlord fails to suspend or remit the payment of rent as provided in this section, he shall be liable to refund to the tenant the amount recovered by him in contravention of this section, if the Mamlatdar, after making an inquiry, orders the refund. Any person acquiring by succession, survivorship, inheritance, partition, purchase, mortgage, gift, lease or otherwise, any right as owner, holder, occupant, mortgagee landlord, tenant or Government lessee of any land, shall report orally or in writing his acquisition of such right to the Talathi within three months, from the date of such acquisition and the said Talathi shall at once give a written acknowledgement of the receipt of such report to the person making it: Provided that, where the person acquiring the right is a minor or otherwise disqualified, his guardian or other person having charge of his property shall make the report to the Talathi: Provided also that where a person claims to have acquired a right with the permission of the Collector where such permission is required under the provisions of any lay for the time being in force, such person on being required by the Talathi so to do, produce such evidence of the order by which such permission is given. Explanation I — The right mentioned above include a mortgage without possession but do not include an easement or a charge not amounting to a mortgage of the kind specified in section 100 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882. Explanation II — A person in whose favour a mortgage is discharged or extinguished, or lease determined acquires a right within the meaning of this section. Explanation III — For the purpose of this Chapter the term “Talathi” includes any person appointed by the Collector to perform the duties of a Talathi under this Chapter.