Dismissal of pannaiyal

(1) Whenever a landowner dismisses a pannaiyal, he shall, within a week from the date of such dismissal, make a report thereof to the Conciliation Officer having jurisdiction over the area. (2) The Conciliation Officer may, on receipt of such report from the landowner, or of any complaint from the pannaiyal who has been dismissed, whether after the commencement of this Act or at anytime before such commencement not being earlier than the 1st day of March 1952, call upon the landowner and the pannaiyal concerned to appear before him in person or by agent, and to represent their respective cases. (3) After considering the representations, if any, so made, and after making such further inquiry into the case as he may deem fit, the Conciliation Officer may, if he finds that the dismissal of the pannaiyal was not just and proper by an award in writing, require the landowner to take back the pannaiyal and reinstate him in all the rights which would have accrued to him but for his dismissal. (4) If the land owner fails to comply with the award of the Conciliation Officer under sub-section (3), or the decision of the Revenue Court on an appeal from such award under sub-section (2) of section 13, the Revenue Court may, on receipt of intimation of such failure, after such inquiry as it considers necessary, direct the land owner to pay to the pannaiyal such compensation as. (6) Any landowner or pannaiyal may terminate the engagement by giving notice of not less than 12 months ending with the expiry of the next agricultural year, or by mutual agreement, provided that where the landowner terminates the engagement under this sub-section, he shall be liable to pay to the pannaiyal, grain or money equivalent to six months wages or such amount as may be mutually agreed upon.