Effect of an order of restoration

Effect of an order of restoration. (31) “licensee” means any person who is in occupation of any nilam belonging to another and who, under any local custom or usage or under an agreement, cultivates that nilam with paddy for a remuneration and with the risk of cultivation, but does not include a person who cultivates the nilam of another merely as an agent or servant; (1) Where restoration of any land resumed is ordered under section 29, the cultivating tenant shall hold the land directly under the landlord from whom restoration has been ordered, and the rights of the intermediaries extinguished under sub-section (6) of section 15 shall not revive. (2) On such restoration, the cultivating tenant shall pay to the person who resumed the land --- (i) the amounts paid by such person to the cultivating tenant and to the intermediary, if any towards the value of the improvements effected by them and existing at the time of restoration; (ii) the value of the improvements, if any, effected bona fide by such person between the date of resumption and the date of the application; and (iii) any amount other than solatium received by the cultivating tenant form such person on account of the resumption. (3) The rent payable by the cultivating tenant after the restoration of the holding shall be the fair rent.