Chapter IV MISCELLANEOUS

If any alienated land has been lawfully leased and such lease is subsisting on the appointed day, the provisions of the 1Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 (Bom. LXVII of 1948) (hereinafter in this section referred to as "the said Act") shall apply to the said lease, and the rights and liabilities of the holder of such land, his tenant or tenants shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be governed by the provisions of the said Act : Provided that, for the purpose of the application of the provisions of the said Act in regard to the compulsory purchase of land by a tenant, the lease shall be deemed to have commenced on the date of the regrant of the land under section 7 or 9, as the case may be. Explanation.- For the purpose of this section, the expression "land" shall have the same meaning as is assigned to it in the said Act.

Any provision of law, usage or practice relating to the succession to any watan, whereby contrary to the personal law governing the parties the rule of primogeniture was followed and the female heirs were postponed in favour of male heirs, shall, on and from the appointed day, be void and cease to be in force.

The State Government, subject to such restriction and conditions as it may impose, by notification in the Official Gazette, delegate to any of its officers not below the rank of Collector, all or any of its powers conferred on it by or under this Act.

1. (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, and subject to the condition of previous publication, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act.
2. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely :-
   • (a) under section 7, the period within which and the manner in which the occupancy price shall be paid ;
   • (b) under section 16 and 17, the period within which and the form in which an application for compensation shall be made ;
   • (c) under section 22, the value of court-fee stamp on an appeal ; 1*****
   • (e) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed.
3. (3) Every rule made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be, after it is made, before each House of the State Legislature where it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall from the date of publication of a notification in the Official Gazette of such decision have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be ; so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done or omitted to be done under that rule.

Nothing in this Act shall affect,-

1. (1) any obligation or liability already incurred under an incident of a alienation before the appointed day, or
2. (2) any proceeding or remedy in respect of such obligation or liability, and any such proceeding may be continued or any such remedy may be enforced as if this Act had not been passed.