Section 4 in The Himachal Pradesh Tenancy And Land Reforms (Amendment) Act, 1987
4. Substitution of section 118.
- In the principal Act, for section 118, the following section shall be substituted, namely:-"118. (1) Notwithstanding 'anything to the contrary contained in any law, contract, agreement, custom or usage for the time being in force, but save as otherwise provided in this Chapter, no transfer of land (including sales in execution of a decree of a civil court or for recovery of arrears of land revenue), by way of sale, gift, exchange, lease, mortgage 'with possession or creation of a tenancy shall be valid in favour of a person who is not an agriculturist.(2)Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to prohibit the transfer of land by any person in favour of-(a)a landless labourer; or(b)a landless person belonging to a scheduled caste or a scheduled tribe; or(c)a village artisan; or(d)a landless person carrying on an allied pursuit; or(e)the State Government; or(f)a co-operative society or a bank; or(g)a person who has' become non-agriculturist on account of the acquisition of his land for any public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894; or(h)a non-agriculturist who purchases or intends to purchase land for the construction of a house or shop, or purchases a built up house or shop, from the Himachal Pradesh State Housing Board, established under live Himachal Pradesh Housing Board Act, 1972, or from the Development Authority constituted under the Himachal Pradesh Town and Country Planning Act, 1977, or from any other statutory corporation set-up under any State or Central/enactment; or(i)a non-agriculturist with the permission of State Government for the purpose that may be prescribed:Provided that a person who is a non-agriculturist but 'purchases land' with the permission of the State Government under clause (i) of this sub-section shall, irrespective of such permission, continue to be a non-agriculturist for the purposes of this Act:Provided further that a non-agriculturist in whose case permission to purchase land is granted by the State Government, shall put the land to such use for which the permission has been granted, within a period of two years or a further such period, not exceeding one year, as may be granted by the State Government, to be counted from the day on which the deed covering the sale of the land is registered and if he fails to do so, the land so purchased by him shall vest in the State Government free from all encumbrances'.(3)No Registrar or the Sub-Registrar appointed under the Indian Registration Act, 1908 shall register any document pertaining to a transfer of land, which is in contravention to sub-section (1) and such transfer shall be void ab initio and the land involved in such transfer, if made in contravention of sub-section (1), shall, together with structures, buildings or other attachments, if any, vest in the' State Government free from all encumbrances':Provided that the Registrar or the Sub-Registrar may register any transfer-(i)Where the lease is made in relation to a part or whole of a building; or(ii)Where the mortgage is made for procuring the loans for construction or improvements over the land either from the Government or from any other financial institution constituted or established under any law for the time being in force or recognised by the State Government.(4)It shall be lawful for the State Government to make use of the land-which is vested or may be vested in it under sub-section (2) or sub-section (3) for such purposes as it may deem fit to do so.Explanation. - For the purpose of this, section, the expression "land" shall include-(i)land, the classification of which has changed or has been caused to be changed to "Gair-mumkin", "Gair-mumkin-Makan" or any other Gair-mumkin land by whatever name called, during the past five years countable from the date of entry in the revenue records to this effect;(ii)land recorded as "Gair-mumkin", "Gair-mumkin Makan" or any other Gair-mumkin land, by whatever name called in the, revenue records, except constructed area which is not subservient to agriculture; and (iii) land which is a site of a building in a town or a village and is occupied or let out not for agricultural purposes or purposes subservient to agriculture."
