Contract rent in the case of certain tenants

Contract rent in the case of certain tenants. (31A). “local authority” means a local authority as defined in the Puducherry Municipalities Act, 1973(Act No.9 of 1973); (1) Where a person who is a tenant for the purposes of this Act as amended by the Mahe Land Reforms (Amendment) Act, 1980, was, before the commencement of the said Amendment Act, not under an obligation to pay rent, the contract rent for the purposes of this Act shall be deemed to be, -- (a) where there has been a stipulation in the document for the periodical payment of any amount by such person, such amount; (b) in the case of a varamdar, the average of the share of the landlord in the paddy produce for the three years immediately preceding the commencement of this Act or where the varamdar was not cultivating the land continuously for the said period of three years, the share of the landlord for the year in which the varamdar cultivated the land last immediately before such commencement; (c) in any other case, four rupees per acre. (2) In the case of a cultivating tenant referred to in sub-section (3) of section 31, the contract rent for the purposes of this Act shall be the contract rent or the proportionate contract rent in respect of the holding or part thereof which is resumed under this Act, at the time of resumption.