(1) In the districts of Chanda, Nimar and Sambalpur, the rent fixed under section 49 shall not be altered during the currency of any settlement except under section 13, section 14, section 15 or section 17.
(2) The rent payable in respect of his holding by a tenant in any of those districts when this Act comes into force shall be deemed to have been fixed at the last preceding settlement. of the area in which that holding is comprised.
(3) Subject to the provisions of section 13, 14, 15, and 17, the rent payable by any such tenant in respect of a holding acquired by him after the commencement of this Act shall, pending the recurrence of the settlement of the area in which that holding is comprised, be the rent fixed by agreement between him and his landlord at the time he acquires that holding, or, in the absence of any such agreement, or on the expiration of the term for which any such agreement has been made, a rent fixed by a Revenue-officer on the application of either party at the following rate, that is to say:--
(a) in the districts of Chanda and Nimar, the rate which the Local Government has prescribed for occupancy-tenants and caused to be entered in the record-of-rights at the current settlement;
(b) in the district of Sambalpur, the average rate at which at the current settlement the rents of other lands in the same village of similar quality and possessing similar advantages were fixed.