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Rights of cultivating tenants to hold land as occupants.— (1) Every cultivating tenant holding land (not being pasture or grass lands) of which he is in actual possession on the appointed date shall, as from that date, be the occupant thereof on payment of land revenue to the Government under section 6. (2) Every agricultural labourer or village artisan, who, on the appointed day, is in occupation of any land for the purpose of his own dwelling house, shall, as from the appointed date, be the occupant thereof on payment of land revenue to the Government under section 6. (3) Every person to whom any land is restored under section 7 shall hold such land as occupant on payment of land revenue to the Government under section 6 from the date such land is ordered to be restored to him under section 7. (4) No land granted under this Act to any cultivating tenant, shall be sold or transferred; nor shall the same be used for any purpose other than agriculture/horticulture.