THE KARNATAKA LAND GRABBING PROHIBITION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2022 KARNATAKA ACT NO. 30 OF 2022 (First Published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the 13th day of October, 2022) (Received the assent of the Governor on the 12th day of October, 2022) An Act further to amend the Karnataka Land Grabbing Prohibition Act, 2011. Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Karnataka Land Grabbing Prohibition Act, 2011 (Karnataka Act 38 of 2014), for the purposes hereinafter appearing; Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the Seventy third year of the Republic of India as follows:- 1. Short title and commencement.– (1) This Act may be called the Karnataka Land Grabbing Prohibition (Amendment) Act, 2022 (2) it shall come into force at once. 2. Amendment of section 2.- In section 2 of the Karnataka Land Grabbing Prohibition Act, 2011 (Karnataka Act 38 of 2014), in clause (d), for sub-clause (i), the following shall be substituted, namely:- “(i) Land falling in all urban areas of the State and also land falling within 18 kms from the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike limits, land falling within 10 kms from the city limits notified under the provisions of the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976, land falling within 5 kms from the City Municipal Council limits, land falling within 3 kms from the Town Municipal Council limits and Town Panchayat limits belonging to the Government, Wakf or the Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments, a local authority, a statutory or non-statutory body owned, controlled or managed by the Government: Provided that, excluding the land specified above in all other areas the cases pending related to land grabbing shall stand abated forthwith.” |
