Compensation for improvements

Every tenant who is entitled to compensation for the value of any building shall also be paid the value of trees which may have been planted by him on the land and of any improvements which may have been made by him. In section 1 of the principal Act,— (i) for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely :- "(2) (a) It extends to,— (i) the City of Madras ; (ii) the townships of Kodaikanal, Avadi, Kathivakkam, Ambattur , Madhavaram, Bhavanisagar, Courtallam and Mettur. Every proceeding instituted by a tenant in respect of any land owned by any religious institution or religious charity belonging to Hindu, Muslim, Christian or other religion and pending before any court or other authority or officer on the date of the publication of this Act in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, shall, in so far as the proceeding relates to any matter falling within the scope of the principal Act, as amended by this Act, in respect of such land, abate, and all rights and privileges which may have accrued to that tenant in respect of any such land and subsisting on the date before the said date shall in so far as such rights and privileges relate to any matter falling within the scope of the principal Act, as amended by this Act, shall not be enforceable : Provided that nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to invalidate any proceeding in which a decree or order passed has been executed or satisfied in full before the said date.