Rent paid by cultivating tenant to be adjusted towards purchase price and compensation in certain cases

(1) Any amount paid by way of rent by the cultivating tenant in respect of his holding to the landowner or any intermediary or the Government for the period after the date of vesting of the right, title and interest of the landowner and the intermediaries in respect of the holding in the Government under section 80 shall be adjusted towards the purchase price payable by the cultivating tenant and such amount received by the landowner or any intermediary shall be adjusted towards the compensation payable to him under section 80J.

(2) Where consequent on the determination of the fair rent in respect of a holding, the rent payable by the cultivating tenant to the landowner or any intermediary has been reduced, the amount paid by the cultivating tenant in excess of the rent so determined to the landowner or the intermediary for the period commencing on the beginning of the agricultural year in which the cultivating tenant filed the application for such determination and ending with the date of such determination shall be adjusted towards the purchase price payable by the cultivating tenant and such amount received by the landowner or any intermediary shall be adjusted towards the compensation payable to him under section 80A.