Right of pre-emption : application of

Subject to the provisions of section 5, the right of pre-emption shall mean the right of the persons hereafter mentioned or referred to, to acquire agricultural land or village immovable property or urban immovable property in preference to other persons, and it arises in respect of such land only in the case of sales and in respect of such property in the case of sales or of foreclosures of the right to redeem the same.

Explanation.— For the purposes of this section the expression “waste land” means land recorded as banjar of any kind in revenue records and such ghair mumkin lands as are reclaimable.