Minimum holding in case of sale

(1) If a landholder does not hold land in excess of three family holdings, he may within two years from the date of receipt of a notice in writing from the protected tenant to sell the land to him under sub-section (1) of section 38, terminate the tenancy of the said protected tenant in the manner and subject to limits specified in section 44, or sell the land to him.

(2) If after the termination of the tenancy, the landholder does not within one year from the date on which he resumed possession of the land, cultivate the land personally or having commenced such cultivation discontinues the same within ten years from the said date, the protected tenant shall be entitled to restoration of possession of the land and its purchase in accordance with the provisions of section 38.