(1) Notwithstanding any agreement or usage or any decree or order of the Court, or any law to the contrary, the maximum rent payable by a tenant for a lease in respect of the following classes of land shall be the multiples of the land revenue for the time being in force or if no land revenue is in force the land revenue which may be assessed thereon, as shown hereunder against them—
(a) Dry land of Chalka soil .. 4 times the land revenue.
(b) Dry land of Black Cotton Soil .. .. 5 times the land revenue.
(c) Baghat .. .. .. 5 times the land revenue.
24. Added by Act No.XXIII of 1951.
25. Substituted by Act No.III of 1954.
Copy of lease to be filed before a Tahsildar.
Summary ejectment of a person in possession of land under void lease.
Maximum rent.
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(d) Wet land-
(i) Irrigated by wells .. .. 3 times the land revenue.
(ii) Irrigated by other sources .. .. 4 times the land revenue.
(e) Classes of land which do not fall within the clause (a), (b), (c) or (d) .. ..
Reasonable rent determined having regard to the classes of land and the rent fixed for the said categories.
Explanation I:- Lands irrigated by wells which are assessed as dry shall be deemed to be wet lands for purposes of this section.
Explanation II:- In the former Non-Diwani areas which have not yet been settled or resettled, the multiples of land revenue payable as rent shall be calculated on the land revenue prevailing in the adjoining Diwani areas:
Provided that only the landholder shall be liable for the payment of the land revenue to the Government and in case the tenant pays the same to the Government he shall be entitled to deduct the same from the rent payable by him:
Provided further that where on any land special improvements have been made by the landholder, such as sinking a well, the tribunal may in respect of such land fix any higher multiple of land revenue as the rent payable therefor.
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(2) When the land revenue of any land is revised, suitable adjustments in the multiples of land revenue payable as rent under sub-section (1) may also be effected on the application of the landholder or the tenant or by the Government on its own motion.
12. The rent payable by a tenant shall, subject to the provisions of sections 11 and 13 be the rent agreed upon between such tenant and his landholder or in the absence of such agreement the rent payable according to the usage of the locality or if there is no such agreement or usage, or where there is dispute as regards the reasonableness of the rent payable according to such agreement or usage, the reasonable rent:
Provided that such reasonable rent shall not in any case exceed one-fourth in the case of irrigated land except land under wells and one-fifth in the case of all other classes of land of the value of the average annual produce of the land, excluding fodder, during the three years immediately preceding the year in which the dispute arises.