Right to restoration of possession of evicted cultivating tenants

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the principal Act as amended by this Act, every cultivating tenant who had been evicted from any land before the date of the publication of this Act in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, on the ground that he has failed to pay the first, second and third instalments respectively, of the arrears of rent referred to in sub-section (1) of section 5 of the principal Act, shall, on application to the competent authority, within such period as may be prescribed, be entitled to be restored to possession of such land and to hold it with all the rights and subject to all the liabilities of a cultivating tenant under the Tenants Protection Act or, under the Public Trusts Act, as the case may be. (2) The provisions of sub-section (4) of section 4 of the Tenants Protection Act or, as the case may be, sub-section (2) of section 20 of the Public Trusts Act shall, so far as may be, apply to applications under sub-section (1).