Compensation may be refused if trees have been overplanted.

When trees are planted in excess of the following scale, the Court, if satisfied that, in the circumstances of the particular case, the land is overplanted, may, notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, either refuse to grant any compensation, or may grant compensation at a lower rate, for so many of the trees as are in excess of the scale and are immature: Coconut trees: 120, Arecanut trees: 720, Jack trees: 60. In the case of a mixed garden each tree shall be allowed a proportionate fraction of an acre according to the above scale. Provided that in respect of the trees planted before the commencement of the Malabar Tenancy (Amendment) Act, 1961, the scale aforesaid shall be read as if for the figures 80, 480 and 40, the figures 120, 720 and 60 were respectively substituted.