Agrarian Services (Amendment) Act 1991 (No. 4 of 1991).

The Act amends several sections of the Agrarian Services Act 1979, concerning inter alia the procedure of eviction of paddy lands, the nomination of successors to the rights of tenant cultivators, the effects of transfer of rights of tenant cultivators, the payment and recovery of rent, the Agrarian Services Committees, the Cultivation Officers, the purposes for which paddy land may be used.
The following new sections are inserted: (a) 5A and 5B on exemption of paddy lands; (b) 12A on the sale of paddy lands and tenancy rights; (c) 16A on willful neglect of cultivation by the tenant cultivator; (d) section 38A on the cultivation of lands in dispute; (e) Part IVA on the appointment of Inquiry Officers and Board of Review; (f) 45A and 45B regarding respectively the survey of agricultural land and the preparation, revision and maintenance of the register of tenant cultivators; (g) 46A on audit of accounts of the Agrarian Services Committees; (h) 56A and 56B on the establishment of Farmers' Organizations; (i) 62A on the unauthorized filling of paddy lands. As a consequence of the addition of section 62A a new Schedule is inserted, which contains a model form of the application for Restraining Order.