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    This document summarizes amendments made to the Karnataka Land Reforms Act of 1961 by the Karnataka Land Reforms (Amendment) Act of 2015. Specifically, it: 1) Increased the annual income limit for non-agriculturalists to acquire agricultural land from Rs. 2 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs. 2) Changed the authority that can grant permission for non-agriculturalists to purchase agricultural land from Assistant Commissioner to Deputy Commissioner. 3) Increased the power of the government and Deputy Commissioner to exempt certain areas from provisions of sections 63, 79A, 79B of the Act.

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    This document summarizes amendments made to the Karnataka Land Reforms Act of 1961 by the Karnataka Land Reforms (Amendment) Act of 2015. Specifically, it: 1) Increased the annual income limit for non-agriculturalists to acquire agricultural land from Rs. 2 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs. 2) Changed the authority that can grant permission for non-agriculturalists to purchase agricultural land from Assistant Commissioner to Deputy Commissioner. 3) Increased the power of the government and Deputy Commissioner to exempt certain areas from provisions of sections 63, 79A, 79B of the Act.

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    This document summarizes amendments made to the Karnataka Land Reforms Act of 1961 by the Karnataka Land Reforms (Amendment) Act of 2015. Specifically, it: 1) Increased the annual income limit for non-agriculturalists to acquire agricultural land from Rs. 2 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs. 2) Changed the authority that can grant permission for non-agriculturalists to purchase agricultural land from Assistant Commissioner to Deputy Commissioner. 3) Increased the power of the government and Deputy Commissioner to exempt certain areas from provisions of sections 63, 79A, 79B of the Act.

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    KARNATAKA ACT NO.

    33 OF 2015
    THE KARNATAKA LAND REFORMS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2015
    Arrangement of Sections
    Sections:
    1. Short title and commencement
    2. Amendment of section 79A
    3. Amendment of section 80
    4. Amendment of section 109

    STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS


    Amending Act 33 of 2015.- It is considered necessary to amend the Karnataka Land
    Reforms Act, 1961 (Karnataka Act 10 of 1962), for the following reasons, namely:(1)

    (2)

    (3)

    to enhance the annual income limit from two lakh to twenty-five lakhs from sources other
    than agricultural lands to acquire any land taking into consideration the revision of rupee
    value since 1995;
    to empower Deputy Commissioner instead of Assistant Commissioner to grant
    permission for non agriculturist to purchase agriculture land under section 80 to take
    more caution while granting such permissions;
    to enhance the power of the Government and the Deputy Commissioner excisable on
    behalf of the Government to grant the land in any area to exempt from the provisions of
    section 63, 79A, 79B of the Act.

    Hence, the Bill.


    [L.A. Bill No. 33 of 2015, File No. Samvyashae 33 Shasana 2015]
    [entry 18 of List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.]
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    KARNATAKA ACT NO. 33 OF 2015


    (First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the thirteenth day of
    August, 2015)
    THE KARNATAKA LAND REFORMS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2015
    (Received the assent of the Governor on the twelfth day of August, 2015)
    An Act further to amend the Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961.
    Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961 (Karnataka
    Act 10 of 1962) for the purposes hereinafter appearing.
    Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the sixty sixth year of the Republic of
    India, as follows:1. Short title and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Karnataka Land Reforms
    (Amendment) Act, 2015.
    (2) It shall come into force at once.
    2. Amendment of section 79A.- In the Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961 (Karnataka Act
    10 of 1962) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in section 79A,(i) in sub-section (1),(a) for the words and figures, "Land Reforms (Amendment) Act, 1995," the words and
    figures, "Land Reforms (Amendment) Act, 2015" shall be substituted: and
    (b) for the words "two lakhs" the words, "twenty five lakhs "shall be substituted.
    (ii) in sub-section (2), for the words "rupees two lakhs" wherever they occur, the words
    "rupees twenty five lakhs" shall be substituted.
    3. Amendment of section 80.- In section 80 of the principal Act, in the proviso for the words
    Assistant Commissioner occurring in two places, the words the Deputy Commissioner shall
    respectively be substituted
    4. Amendment of section 109. - In section 109 of the principal Act,
    (1) in sub-section (1),(a) in clause (i), for the words "twenty units" the words "forty units" shall be substituted.
    (b) in clause (ii), for the words "four units", the words "eight units" shall be substituted.
    (c) in clause (iii) for the words "one unit" the words "two units" shall be substituted.
    (d) in clause (iv), for the words "ten units", the words "twenty units" shall be substituted.
    (e) in clause (v), for the words "twenty units" the words "forty units" shall be substituted.
    (f) in the proviso,(i) in clause (i), for the words "ten units" the words "twenty units" shall be substituted.
    (ii) in clause (ii), for the words "two units" the words "four units" shall be substituted.
    (iii) in clause (iii), for the words "one fourth of a unit", the words and figures "half of a unit
    (2.22 acre)" shall be substituted.
    (iv) in clause (iv) for the words "ten units" the words "twenty units" shall be substituted.
    (v) in clause (v), for the words "ten units" the words "twenty units" shall be substituted.

    By Order and in the name of the Governor of Karnataka,

    S.B. GUNJIGAVI
    Secretary to Government
    Department of Parliamentary Affairs

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