(1) Every tenant who is not an absolute occupancy-tenant, or an occupancy-tenant, or a village-service-tenant or a sub-tenant, is an ordinary tenant.
(2) In any local area in which the Local Government may, by notification in the local official Gazette, declare that the provisions of this sub-section are in force, where a person cultivates land not being sir-land under an agreement made with the proprietor of the land and purporting to be an agreement for the cultivation of the land by such person and such proprietor in partnership, such person is an ordinary tenant of the land so cultivated by him, and, notwithstanding any contract to the contrary, the rent payable by him for the land shall be fixed by a Revenue-officer on application made by him or his landlord.