(1) A tenant may, at any time after the commencement of this Act apply to the Deputy Commissioner in the prescribed manner for being registered as an occupant in respect of the land of which he is a tenant.
(2) The tenant shall be liable to pay to the State Government as premium for being registered as an occupant an amount equal to one hundred times the land revenue payable on that land. Such amount shall be payable in such number of annual instalments not exceeding ten and on or before such date as may be fixed by the prescribed authority.
(3) On payment to the State Government of such amount the tenant shall, subject to the provisions of section 25, be registered as an occupant of such land.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding sub-sections, where the tenant is in possession of land in excess of the extent specified in section 25, he shall not be registered as an occupant unless he surrenders to the prescribed authority such excess extent.
(5) In respect of the land of which the tenant is registered as an occupant under this section he shall be liable to pay the land revenue and the provision of section 12 shall mutatis mutandis apply in this behalf.