Whenever from any cause the payment of the whole or any part of the land-revenue payable in respect of any land is remitted or suspended, a Revenue-officer may, by general or special order, remit or suspend, as the case may be, the payment of the rent of that land to an amount which may bear the same proportion to the whole of the rent payable in respect of the land as the land-revenue of which the payment has been remitted or suspended bears to the whole of the land-revenue payable in respect of the land, and may distribute the amount so remitted or suspended amongst the tenants holding such land as may seem to him to be equitable, having regard to the effect on their holdings of the cause which has led to the remission or suspension of the land-revenue :
Provided that, where the rent is taken by actual division of the produce, no portion of it shall be suspended under this section.:
(2) An order passed under sub-section (1) shall not be liable to be contested by suit in any Court.:
(3) No suit shall lie for the recovery of any rent of which the payment has been remitted, or, during the period of suspension, of any rent of which the payment has been suspended, and, so long as a suit does not lie, such rent shall not be legally payable within the meaning of section 10.:
(4) Where the payment of rent has been suspended, the period of suspension shall be excluded in the computation of the period of limitation prescribed for bringing a suit for the recovery of the rent.:
(5) The provisions of this section relating to the remission and suspension of the payment of rent may be applied, as far as may be, to land of which the land-revenue has been wholly or in part released, compounded for or redeemed, in any case in which, if the land-revenue in respect of the land had not been released, compounded for or redeemed, the whole or any part of it might, in the opinion of the Revenueofficer, have been remitted or suspended.:
(6) The provisions of this section relating to rent shall apply also, as far as may be, to revenue payable by malik-makbuzas, to revenue and malikana payable by inferior proprietors, and to thika-jamas payable by thikadars of proprietary rights, and the provisions of section 10 apply in cases where revenue, malikana or thika-jama has been collected in contravention of this section.: