Application to collector for registration as proprietor

Where any person is entitled otherwise than as owner to collect the rents of the whole of the estate or any portion thereof consisting of one or more villages by virtue of any transfer from an owner or of any decree or order of a competent court or of any rule or provision of law and is not the proprietor as defined in section 4 of the Madras Proprietary Estates' Village-service Act, 1894, he may apply to the District Collector to be registered as proprietor in respect of such estate or portion for all or any of the purposes of the Madras Proprietary Estates' Village-service Act, 1894, the Madras Hereditary Village-offices Act, 1896, and the Madras Survey and Boundaries Act, 1897'.