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This Law regulates the tenant and cultivating on the government land. It states that the government can announce the renting of any field or land from a specific date. The tenant farmer lay down by government or landlord must pay the tax to the landlord with the following rates. Renting fee is the same wage as the land for cultivating rice in the year. Renting fee is thrice the wage of cultivating Chili, Onion and Virginia in the year or special crop rate of Sugar cane. Renting fee is twice the wage of cultivating Chili, Onion and Virginia in the year. As prescribed in sub-section (1), rent for cultivating a farm is noted as renting fee for the whole year of cultivation. The tenant farmer is not responsible to pay additional rent fee for cultivating multiple crops or subsidiary crop on that land in the same year. Renting fee should pay in cash. Specified compensation fee should give to the landlord, if the landlord benefit was decreased due to the tenant’s failure to do normal task or other reason which destroy the paddy dike, drain, well and pond. The government can specifically appoint any person or organization to carry out. Lay down order by power transferred person or organization or once again power transferred people or organization by section (7), cannot refuse to accept in any civil court or revenue office. Appeal can make in any legally specified organization. Anyone doing the job according to this law or bylaw cannot be prosecuted in any court. Anyone or organization who has transferred power or once again transferred power in accordance with Section (7) can be sentence to six months in prison or fined three hundred kyat or both if fails to cultivate on the rented land without sufficient reason or rent to another person. This Law has been amended by Tenancy Law Amending Law, 1965.
