Fair rent payable in cash or in kind

1. (1) The fair rent in respect of any land may be paid either in cash or in kind or partly in cash and partly in kind, in accordance with terms of the contract between the landowner and the cultivating tenant; in the absence of such a contract, the fair rent may be paid at the option of the cultivating tenant in any one of the above ways:

any other case within three months from the date on which the tenancy agreement takes effect; and if the cultivating tenant does not exercise the option, within the period aforesaid,

the landowner shall, by notice in writing given to the cultivating tenant, specify the mode

in which the fair rent shall be paid by the cultivating tenant:

Provided further that the option once exercised or the mode once specified shall not be changed except by mutual agreement:

Provided further that where the crop raised is paddy, the landowner shall have the right to insist that the rent shall be paid in kind.

1. (2) Whenever adverse seasonal conditions result in the reduction of the gross produce from any particular crop and there is remission of land revenue, the landowner shall be bound to remit a proportionate part of the fair rent due to him from his cultivating tenant in respect of that land for that period: Provided that before admitting or inquiring into an application made by a

cultivating tenant for remission of fair rent under this section, the Rent Court may impose

such conditions as it considers reasonable in the circumstances of the case including condition as to deposit of admitted rent which has become due.

Alteration or revision of fair rent