In this Act, unless there is anything repugaant the subject or context,
(1) all words and expressions defined in the Lnd Revenue Code shall have the same respective meanings as in that Code with tha nodifications, made by this Act:
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(2) date of vesting " in relation to an inam means, the date appointed by a notification issued under sub-section (4) of section to be the date on which the provisions of this Act (other than soctions 2, 24, and 36) shall come into force in such inam:
(3) Deputy Commissioner includes any officer, not below the rank of a Deputy Commissioner authorised by the Goverament br notification to exercise the powers of a Deputy Commissioner under this Act;
(4) " Government" means the State Government
(5) c inam" includes an inam village and a minor inam;
an inam;
(6) " inamdar " means a religious or chritable institution owning
(7) inam village" means an alienated village whether Sarva manya or Jodi or a portion of such village ;
Ezplanation.--In respect of the Sringeri Jahgir, inan village means the group of inam villages specified in the Schedule to the
(9) Land Revenue Cole " Code, 1888;
(8) kndim tenant" means a tenant as defned in section 84 of the Land Revenue Code;
(10) )inor inam village;
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Gazette ;
inam village, situated in an alienated village or in an unaliented
(12) means an alienated holding other than means the Mysore Land Reveut
(11) " notification " neans a notification published in the Mysor permanent tenant" means a who either unde' per'son who 8ection 79 of the Land Revenue ode or otherwise is entitled Sringeri Jahgir Inam Settlement Act, 1897:
tenancy in respect of any land used for agricultural purposes, the duration the tenure of the inandar; but, where the inamdar is an institution of religious worship, shall not include a person rendering religious service in Or maintaining, the institution as a pujari, archak or the bolder of. a similar office, and enjoying the beneits of any land oomprised in the inam of such institution, without paying rent as such in money or in kind to that institution in respect of such land;
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(13) prescribed" means prescribed by rules made by the Govern ment uuder this Act.
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3. Consequences VESTING OF INAM IN STATE AND ITS CoNSEQUENCES.
CHAPTER IESE) OE of the vesting of an inam in the State, When the notification under sub-section (4) of section l in respect any inam has been published in the Mysore Gazette, then, notwitbstanding anything contained in any contract, grant or other instrument or in any other law for the time being in force, with effect on and from the date of vesting, and save as otherwise expressly provided in this Aet, the following consequences shall ensue, namely:
(a) the provisions of the Land Revenue Code relating to alienated holdings shall be deemed to have been repealed in their ihe provisions of the appiication to the inam; and Land Revenue Code and all other enactments applicable to unalienated villages shall apply to the said inam;
(b) all rights, title and interest vesting in the inamdar including those in all communal lands, cultivated lands, uncultivated lands, whether assessed or not, waste lands, pasture lands, forests, mines and minerals, quarries, rivers and streams, tanks and irrigation works, fisheries and ferries, shall cease and be vested absolutely in the State of Mysore, free from al encumbrances;
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(c) the inamdar shall cease to have any interest in the inan other than the interests expressly saved by or under the provisions of this Act;
(0) all rents and land revenue including cesses and royalties accruing in respect of lands comprised in such inam on or after the date of vesting shall be payable to the State and not to the inamdar and any payment made in contrl vention of this clause shall not be valid:
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(e) all arrears of revenue, whether as jodi or quit-Tent andos Temaining lawfully due on the date of vest recoverable fron the inamdar by whom they and inay, without prejudice to any other mode of recoVery inamdar under this Act;
be realised by the deduction of the amount of and cesses from the compensation money payable to such were payabl.
inam, shall, cease to be in force;
such () no such inam shall be liable to attachment in execution of auy decree or other process of any court and any attachment existing on the date of vesting or any order for attachment passed before such date in respect of suca
(9) the Government may, after removing any obstruction tho may be offered, forthwith take possession of the ina and all accounts, registers, pattas, mutehalikas, maps, plans and other documents relating to the inam which tha Government may require for the administration thereof :
Provided that the Government shall not dispossess any person of any land in respect of which they consider that he is prina facie entitled to be registered as the occupant ;
arrears () the inamdar whose rights have vested in the State of Mysore under clause (b) shall be entitled only to compensation from the Government as provided in this Act;
(i) the relationship of landlord and tenant shall, as between the inamdar and a kadim tenant or a permanent tenant or any other tenant, be extinguished;
() the relationship of superior holder and inferior holder shall, &s between the inamdar and the holder of a minor inan, be extinguished;
against the Government or such inamdar.
(2) kadim tenants, pernnanent tenants and other tenants in the inao and persons holding under them and holders of minor inam:
shall, as against the Government, be entitled only to such rights and privileges and be subject to such conditions as are provided for by a under this Act; and any other rights and privileges which may bare accrued to them in the ina1 before the date of vesting aga1nst inamdar shall cease and determine and shall not be enforceabe
(2) Nothing contained in sub-section (1) shall operate as but for this Act would be avilable to him, bar to th recovery by the inamdar of any sum which becomes due to b Lefore the date of vesting by virtue of his rights as inanmdar and au' euch sun shall be recoverable by hin by any process of law whie sting in Yespec of any such inam shall after such date continue to be
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Kadim tenants to be registered as occupants of their holdings. kadim tenant of the inamdar shall, with effect on and from date of vesting, be entitled 131 pperly to be registered as an occupant in spect of all Jands which immediately before the date of vesting, were included in his holaing.
Nothing in this Act shall affect any right created by the kadim nt in any land included in his holding.
5 Permanent tenants to be registered as occupants ondikions-(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), every as occupants on certain bermanent tenant of the inamdar shall, with effect on and from the Fate of vesting, be entitled to be registered as an occupant in Spect of all lands of which he was a permanent tenant immediately efore the date of vesting :
Provided that no person who has been admitted into possession of Dy land by an inamdar on shall except where the Deputy Commissioner after an examination or after the first day of July, 1948, of all the circumstances otherwise airects, be entitled to be registered aS an occupant in respect of such land.
(2) In addition to the annual land revenue payable in respect of e 1and, permanent tenant entitled to be registered as an occupant O any land under sub-section (1), shall be liable to pay to the Bovernment, as prenium for acquisition of ownership of that land, au amount equal to twenty times such land revenue. The amount premium shall be payable in not more than ten annual instalments along with the annualI land revenue and in default of such payment, the amount due shall be recoverable as an arrear of land revenue due on the land in respect of which it is payable.
O Other tenants to be tenants under Government. --Every tensnt he inamdar other than a kadin tenant or a permanent tenant Suall, with eftect on and from the date of vesting, and subject to the Drovision8 of Chspter IV, be entitled to be continued as a tenant under the Government in respect of land of which he was a tenaut Under the inamdar immediately before the date of vesting:
Provided that nothing in this seotion shall, where the inamdar L8 an institution of religious worship, pply to a person rendering religious service in, or muintaining the institution as pujari, archak or tho holdor of similar ofice and onjoying the benetits of any land comprised in tho inaum of such iustitutiou, without paying rent as such in uoney or in kind to that institution in respeot of such land. 9
7. Lands and buildings to vest in the holder of a minor inam
(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (8) every hoider of .
minor inam shall, with effect on and from the date of vesting entitled to be registered as an occupant of all lands which immed:.
ately before the date of vesting were included in his holding other than- 132 () communal lands, waste lands, gomal lands, forest lands, tank beds, mines, quarries, rivers, streams, tanks and irrigation Works ;
(i) lands in respect of which any person is entitled to be registered under section 4 or 5; or is entitled to be continued as a tenant under section 6; and (i0i) lands upon which have been erected buildings owaed by any person other than the holder of the minor inanm,
(2) Subject to the provisiors of sub-section (3) every building situated within the limits of the minor inam and which was owned immediately before the date of vesting by the holder of the minor inam, shall, with effect on and from such date, vest in the holder of the ninor inam.
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(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, the holder of a minor inam shall not be entitled to alienate the land or th9 building vesting in hin under sub-section
(1) or (2), except by way of lease for a term not exceeding fire years :
Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to an alienation effected with the previous sanction of the prescribed autherity.
Lands and buildings to vest in the inamdar.-(1) Subject to tbe provisions of sub-section (8) every inamdar shall, with effect on and iron the date of vesting, be entitled to be registered as an Ocoupant of all lands other than- () comuunal lards, waste lands, gonal lands, forest lands, tau beds, mines, quarries, rivers, streams, tanks and irrigation works;
(i) lands in respect of which any per aDy person is entitled to be regis.
tered under section 4, 5 or 7; or is entitled to be Continue as a tenant under section 6; and
(i) lands upon which have been erected buildings owned 2hy person other than the inamdar.
sit uated within the limits of the inan which was owned immediatel (2) Subjet to the proviaions of sub-section (3) every buildins fore the date of vesting by the inamdar shall, with offect on and iroua such date, vest in the inamdar.
Erplanation.--In this section "inamdar" dher tban a holder of a minor inam referred to in soction 6, 3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, the inamdar shall not be entitled to alienate the land or building vested in him under sub-section (1) or (2), except by way of a lease for a term not exceeding five years:
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Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to any alienation effected with the previous sanction of the prescribed uthority.
9. Determination of claims for registration of occupancy and continuation of tenancy. The Deputy Commissioner shall examine means an inandar nature and history of all lands in respect of which a kadin uaat, a permanent tenant, the holder of a minor inam, or an IDAmdar claims to be registered as occupant under sections 4, 5, aud 8, as the case may be, or in respect of which any person laims to be continued as tenant under section 6, and decide in respect oi which lands the claims should be allowed.
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