Amendment of section 106

For the existing section 106 of the Principal Act, the following shall be substituted, namely,— 106 (1) Save as otherwise provided in this section no land owner shall, after the commencement of section 16 of the Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms (Amendment) Act, 1975 transfer by way of lease for period whatsoever any land comprised in this holding and any transfer by way of lease made in contravention of this sub-section shall be void and inoperative. (2) A person under disability or a public charitable or religious institution or a local authority or a Society Registered under the Assam Co-Operative Societies Act, 1949, as in force in the State of Manipur, may lease the whole or any part of his or its holding: Provided that any lease granted in pursuance of this sub-section by a person under disability shall cease to be in force after cessation of the disability. Explanation—For the purpose of this sub-section the disability of a person shall cease. (a) In the case of a widow, if she remarries, on the date of her marriage or if any person succeeds to the widow on her death, on the date of her death; (b) in the case of a minor, on the date of his attaining majority; (c) in the case of a woman who is unmarried or who is divorced or judicially separated from her husband, on the date of her marriage as the case may be, or in the case of a woman or remarriage whose husband is a person falling under clause (d) or clause (e), on the date of which the disability of the husband ceases; (d) in the case of a person who is a member of the Armed Forces of the Union, on the date of his discharge from service or of his posting to the reserve; (e) in the case of a person suffering from a physical or mental disability, on the date on which the disability ceases to exist; (f) within one year of the cessation of the disability referred to in sub-section (2), the land owner shall, notwithstanding anything contained in section 119, be entitled to resume for personal cultivation the land held by the tenant not exceeding one half of the area of such land: Provided that no resumption under this sub-section shall be made which would have the effect of leaving the tenant after such resumption with less than one hectare of land."