The rent of a tenant, other than a permanent tenure-holder, or a fixed-rate tenant, shall be liable to abatement under this Act on one or more of the following grounds only :-
(a) that the rent payable by the tenant is substantially greater than the rent calculated at the sanctioned rates appropriate to him; or
(b) that the productive powers of the land held by the tenant have been decreased by an improvement made by the landholder or by any cause beyond the tenant's control during the currency of the present rent; or
(c) that the area of his holding has been decreased by diluvion or encroachment or by the taking up of land for a public purpose or for a work of public utility; or (d) that the rent is liable to abatement on some ground specified in a lease, agreement or decree under which he holds.
(a) that the rent payable by the tenant is substantially greater than the rent calculated at the sanctioned rates appropriate to him; or
(b) that the productive powers of the land held by the tenant have been decreased by an improvement made by the landholder or by any cause beyond the tenant's control during the currency of the present rent; or
(c) that the area of his holding has been decreased by diluvion or encroachment or by the taking up of land for a public purpose or for a work of public utility; or (d) that the rent is liable to abatement on some ground specified in a lease, agreement or decree under which he holds.
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