Karnataka SC and ST PROHIBITION OF TRANSFER OF CERTAIN LANDS AMENDMENT BILL 2023

Subject: THE KARNATAKA SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES (PROHIBITION

OF TRANSFER OF CERTAIN LANDS) (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2023

(LA Bill No. 15 of 2023)

A Bill further to amend the Karnataka Scheduled Castes and Scheduled

Tribes (Prohibition of Transfer of Certain Lands) Act, 1978.

Whereas it is expedient to amend the Karnataka Scheduled Castes and

Scheduled Tribes (Prohibition of Transfer of Certain Lands) Act, 1978 (Karnataka

Act No.2 of 1979), for the purposes hereinafter appearing;

Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the Seventy fourth year

of Republic of India as follows:-

1. Short title and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the

Karnataka Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prohibition of Transfer of

Certain Lands) (Amendment) Act, 2023.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

2. Amendment of section 5.- In the Karnataka Scheduled Castes and

Scheduled Tribes (Prohibition of Transfer of Certain Lands) Act, 1978 (Karnataka

Act No.2 of 1979), in section 5, in sub-section (1), after clause (b), the following

clauses shall be inserted and shall always deemed to have been inserted, namely:-

"(c) notwithstanding anything contained in any law, there shall be no

limitation of time or reasonable time to invoke the provisions of this

Act.

(d) the provisions of clause (c) shall apply to all cases pending before all

the competent authorities and all Courts of Law adjudicating the cases under this section."

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