Leases

(1) No Jhumland be leased by any one having a customary right thereto unless: (i)The Deputy Commissioner/Additional Deputy Commissioner has approved on the recommendation of the Village and Area Council concerned of such lease on the ground that such lease benefits the Village or the Community; or (ii) the lessor is by reasons of age or infirmity, unable to cultivate or utilise it and the lessee is a member of the same village or community as the less or. (2) A lease under clause (ii) above shall be determined on the death of the lessor on the termination of the infirmity;Provided the lessee shall be entitled to tend and reap any crop standing on the leased land on the date of termination of lease.