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 46. The right to use the land is acquired by the procedure laid down in the present DECREE only, and cannot under any circumstances pass from one person to another.

47. The right of a person to use the land may be temporarily suspended without being totally extinguished.

48. Any person occupying land may cease using it without losing his right to use it at any future date (a) if a natural calamity (such as an overflow of a river or collapse of a dyke) temporarily prevents him from using it; (b) if he is visited by a temporary, but grave, illness; (c) if he has to perform some obligatory State or other public service, and in other socially deserving cases, pending the return of conditions enabling him to resume the use of the land.

49. In all cases of interruption of agricultural activity, mentioned in the preceding article, as well as in cases of temporary disablement, death, etc., the local Soviet authority, with a view to the preservation of the property of the concern and the continuation of the production, must either organise public assistance for the farm or apply hired labour at the expense of the State and subject to the general rules of workers' control.

50. The right to use the land may become extinguished in respect either of the whole or of part of the working household or other unit.

51. The right to use the land may become extinguished in the case of a person either completely, or in respect of a particular plot of land.

52. The right to use the land becomes totally extinguished (a) in the case of an institution, with its abolition, or with the abolition of the object for which the land has been taken; (b) in the case of working associations, like co-operative societies or communes, with their breaking-up or their civil extinction as an economic unit; (c) in the case of individual citizens, with their death or loss of all civil right by a verdict of the courts; (d) in the case of physical impossibility for a person to carry on the pursuit, accompanied by the presence of other sources of livelihood (such as the receipt of a pension by the non-able-bodied).