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Issues: Whether a tenant of land leased from a local authority could claim protected-tenant status under the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 in view of the saving provision in Section 89(2)(b), and whether the later amendment and Section 88-B altered that position.
Analysis: Section 31 of the 1948 Act recognised as protected tenants only those who had already acquired that status under the 1939 Act. Section 88(1)(a) expressly excluded lands held on lease from a local authority from the operation of the foregoing provisions of the 1948 Act, so Section 31 could not operate in favour of such lessees. The saving language in Section 89(2)(b) was subject to the express provisions of the Act, and therefore could not preserve a right that Section 88(1)(a) expressly excluded. Section 88-B did not assist the tenant because the tenancy had already been determined before that provision came into force. Section 4-A, which replaced Section 31 after the 1956 amendment, also did not extend protected-tenant status to leases from a local authority.
Conclusion: The tenant could not claim protected-tenant status, and the exclusion in Section 88(1)(a) prevailed over the saving clause in Section 89(2)(b). The challenge failed in favour of the respondent.
Ratio Decidendi: Where a statute expressly excludes a category of leases from the operation of the provisions conferring protected-tenant status, the saving clause for accrued rights cannot preserve that status against the express exclusion.
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