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(4) It has, however, been urged that while an application may be made to a Mamlatdar for obtaining a declaration that a person is a tenant an application for a negative declaration that a person is not a tenant, is not competent. It has been contended that the object of the Act is to protect them and that consequently, where the owner of a land alleges that person is not a tenant or that he is not entitled to the protection of the Act, the application cannot be said to be one for the purposes of the Act. There does not seem to us to be much force in this argument. The purposes of the Act are, as will be seen from the preamble, to regulate the relations of landlords and tenants of agricultural lands. While the Act confers extensive of all their rights For instance, they can terminate the tenancies and resume possession of their lands in certain circumstances, Under section 29 both the landlords and the tenants can apply to the Mamlatdar for obtaining to determine whether a person is a tenant. He can therefore also decide that a person is not a tenant. If he can decide this question, on an application made to him by a tenant, it is difficult to understand why he should not be able to devide this question when the application is made by the landlord. In either case the question which the Mamlatdar will have to determine is whether the relationship of landlord and tenant exists between the parties. The jurisdiction to decide this question vests exclusively in the Mamlatdar and the Civil court is not competent to decide it. This question will also have to be determined by reference to and in the light of the provisions of the Act as to who are and who are deemed to be tenant and as to how and in what circumstances a tenancy can be terminated. Such a determination will therefore be for the purposes of the Act. The words for the purposes of this Act in our opinion, mean for the purposes of deciding any question relating to a matter, which is regulated or governed by the provisions of this Act, if, therefore, the question raised before the Mamlatdar relates to a matter, which is to be decided by reference to the provision of the Act, its determination by the Mamlatdar will be for the purposes of the Act, and it is immaterial whether the application raising the question is made by the landlord or by the tenant.