(7) Every person to whom any land has been allotted under sect'on 27 shall have occupancy rights over such land from the date of such allotment:
Allotment of surplus lend.
Allottees to have rights of occupants.
486 THE GAZETTE OF INDTA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II— Occupancy price payable by Bllottees.
Provisions of Chapter not to apply to Und» used for nonagricultural purpotei I^ese of
Provided that no such person shall transfer by way of sale, mortgage, exchange, gift, lease or otherwise, the land so allotted to him except in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed.
(2) Any transfer of land in contravention of the proviso to sub-section (1) shall be void.
e 29. (1) Every person to whom any land has been allotted under section 27, shall be liable to pay to the Government occupancy price to the extent and in the manner hereinafter provided.
(2) The occupancy price payable shall be equal to—
(a) eighteen times the annual land revenue assessment payable in respect of the land allotted, where the allottee is a member of a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe, and
(b) thirty-six times such assessment, in any other case.
(3) The occupancy price payable under sub-section (2) shall be paid by the allottee in equal annual instalments not exceeding twelve in number, along with the land revenue payable in respect of such land, and the first Instalment shall be payable before the first day of the revenue year immediately following the expiration of a period of five years from the date of allotment.
1 30. In respect of surplus lands which are not allotted under section 27, the Administrator may, having regard to public interest, frame such rules as he may deem fit for the management or disposal of such lands.
CHAPTER VII TENANCIES 31- Nothing contained in this Chapter shall apply to any land or part thereof used, or capable of being used, for any purpose other than for the purposes of agriculture.