15: Remission and suspension of vent consequent on Like treatment of land revenue

(1) Wherever 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, if the rent be payable in cash or the rent be payable in kind of which the amount is fixed, by 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 payment has been remitted or suspended bears to the whole of the land revenue payable in respect of the land. When the payment of the rent of any land has been suspended under this clause it shall remain under suspension until the Collector orders the revenue of that land to be realized. (2) An order passed under sub-section (1) shall not be liable to be contested by suit in any Court. (3) A suit shall not 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. (4) Where the payment of rent has been suspended, the period during which the suspension has continued shall be excluded in the computation of the period of limitation prescribed for a suit for the recovery of the rent. (5) If the landlord collects from a tenant any rent of which the payment has been remitted, or is under suspension, the Revenue Officers may recover from the landlord the amount or value of the rent so collected and may also recover by way of penalty a further sum not exceeding such amount or value, and may cause to be refunded to the tenant the amount or value of the rent so collected from him. (6) The provisions of this section relating to the remission and suspension of the payment of rent may be applied so far as they can be made applicable to land of which the land revenue has been 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 Revenue Officer, be remitted or suspended under the rules for the time being in force for regulating the remission and suspension of land revenue. (7) Any sum of which the recovery is ordered under sub-section (5) on account of rent or penalty may be recovered by the Collector as if it were an arrear of land revenue.

Effective date: 1950-06-20

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