(2) As from the commencement of this Regulation, no person shall lease out any land unless at the time of granting the lease be is a person under disability and there is no male member In the family who could undertake the personal cultivation of such land.
(2) Where a lease of land has been granted by a person under disability in whose family there was no male member who could undertake the personal cultivation of such land at the time of granting the lease and such lease is subsisting at the commencement of this Regulation, then, such lease shall be deemed to be a lease granted under sub-section (1) as from such commencement.
(3) Every lease of land granted or deemed to be granted under this section shall be for a period of three years and at the end of the said period and thereafter at the end of every period of three years, the tenancy shall be deemed to have been renewed for a further period of three years on the same terms and conditions unless the person who granted the J^se has, in the opinion of the prescribed authority, ceased to be a person under disability before the date from which the lease is deemed to have been renewed as aforesaid and notice in writin'g has been given by the prescribed authority to the tenant before the said date intimating him tnat such person has ceased to h* r person under disability, SKC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY 487
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing sub-sections a member of the Armed Forces of the Union may, on his discharge from service or posting to the reserve, resume any land held under him on lease within one year of such discharge or posting by giving not less than three months notice in writing thereof to the tenant of such land:
Provided that any land having standing crops thereon shall be resumed under this sub-section only after a reasonable opportunity has been given to the person in possession of such land to harvest the same.
33. No surrender of Jand made by a tenant shall be valid unless it if made in writing and no such surrender shall take effect unless the same is admitted by the tenant before the prescribed authority.