Chapter III REGISTRATION AS AN OCCUPANT

11. Procedure for registration as an occupant. (1) Every person entitled to be registered as an occupant under this Act shall make an application to the Tribunal constituted under the Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961 on or before 31st day of March, 1991. Such application shall be disposed of by the Tribunal as if it is an application made under the said Act: Provided the where the inam is an enfranchised inam, such application by the inamdar including holder of minor inam shall be made to the Tahsildar on or before the thirty-first day of March, 1991. The application shall be decided by the Tahsildar after issuing individual notices to the concerned inamdars and after such verification and enquiry held in such manner as may be prescribed.

(1) The right of an inamdar or other person to be registered as an occupant under this Act shall be subject to the payment by him to the State Government of a premium as specified below:- (i) an inamdar: six times the land revenue of the lands to be registered; (ii) other persons referred to in section 5 : one hundred times the land revenue of the lands to be registered. (2) The said right shall also be subject to the further conditions that the land registered shall not be alienated in any manner or partitioned except with the previous sanction of the Deputy Commissioner and on payment of an amount equal to twenty times the land revenue of the lands concerned, which shall be in addition to the amount already paid as premium: Provided that such sanction shall not be necessary for an inamdar including the holder of a minor inam to alienate the land of which he is registered as an occupant in an enfranchised inam.