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Section 5 · Acquisition of rights to be reported:

- Any person who, after the expiry of a period of six months from the date of a notification under sub-section (4) of Section 1 directing the provisions of this Regulation to apply to a village or local area, acquires by succession, survivorship, inheritance, partition, purchase, mortgage, gift, lease or otherwise any right as holder, occupant, owner, mortgagee or landlord of land in the village or as the case may be, in a village included in the local area to which the notification relates, or as assignee of the rent or revenue of such land, shall report his acquisition of such right orally or in writing to the village Patwari within three months from the date of such acquisition, and the village Patwari shall at once give a written acknowledgment of the receipt of such report to the person making it:Provided that a requisition of rights as a tenant shall not be required to be reported unless the tenancy is a perpetual tenancy or a tenancy of a description which has been specified either generally or for the purposes of the village concerned or of a local area including that village in a notification under the proviso to sub-section (1) of Section 4:Provided further that where the person acquiring the right is a minor or otherwise disqualified, his guardian or other person having charge of his property, shall make the report to a Village Patwari:Provided further that any person acquiring a right by virtue of a registered document shall not be required to report the acquisition.Explanation 1:- The rights referred to in this section include a mortgage without possession, but do not include an easement or a charge not amounting to a mortgage of the kind specified in Section 88 of the Transfer of Property Act.Explanation 2:- A person in whose favour a mortgage is discharged or extinguished, or a lease is determined, acquires a right within the meaning of this section.

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