Section 7. Liability to pay khot’s dues and rights of khot extinguished.

(1) With effect from the date on which this Act comes into force, the land in respect of which any person is entitled to the rights of an occupant under section 4 or 5, as the case may be, shall be free from the liability for the payment of khot's dues in respect thereof and all rights of a khot in his capacity as a khot in such land shall be deemed to have been extinguished. (2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall in any way affect the liability of any person to pay in respect of the land in his possession the amount of the khot's dues for the current year ending on the 31st day of July 1954 and the amount of the arrears of such dues for any previous year in respect of such land.