Amendment of section 84 of Assam Act I of 1929

Sub-section (2) of section 84 of the said Act shall be re-numbered as clause (a) of sub-section (2) and the following clause shall be added as clause (b) :— “ (b) Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding clause, an occupancy tenant shall, subject to the provisions of section 27 have full dominion over such Sal or Sisu trees as were planted in the land during the pendency of the tenancy. Where land has been held by the tenant continuously for twenty years all trees standing thereon shall be presumed to have been planted during the pendency of the tenancy. The provisions of sub-sections (4), (5) and (6) of section 15 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the construction of the expression ‘held by the tenant continuously’ ”