No landowner shall charge rent or collect division thereof from the tenant in excess of fifty percent of the main annual crop yield78 of the land. (a) Provided, however, that no landowner having land in the Kathmandu Valley shall collect from the tenant the rent in excess of the following rates of the main annual crop yield of the land:
                                                       Paddy land      (Khet) Pakho
Firstst grade (Abbal ) one Ropani    1/3/              /10/1
Secondnd grade (Doyam) one Ropani /18/6        /7/2
Third grade (Sim) one Ropani            /13/               / 4/3
Fourth grade (Chahar) one Ropani      /8/5           /2/7
(b) Where there has been charged the division or rent of crop at the rate lower than the above at the time of the commencement of this Section, that lower rate shall prevail. No landowner shall charge rent or collect division of crop from the tenant by increasing that lower rate. (c)79 Government of Nepal may, in respect of any land or any land in the prescribed area, fix proportion of the main annual crop yield on the basis of the type of land and crop and, based on that proportion, such rent at the rate of 50 percent of the main annual crop yield as required to be paid by the tenant to the landowner pursuant to this Section. After the rent has been so fixed, the rent shall accordingly be paid and received each year.
Explanation: 80 For the purposes of this Section, the rent required to be paid and received on the basis of the type of land shall be as mentioned in the certificate of tenancy right or in the tiller’s provisional slip to be granted pursuant to this Act and the Rules framed under this Act; except in cases where transaction has already taken place, such rent shall be paid and received from the date on which the principal Act has come into force.