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Hence it is proposed to introduce a provision to make encroachment on lands belonging to the City Improvement Trust Board, Mysore, Village Panchayats, Taluk Boards, Municipal Councils, Municipal Corporations, Improvement Boards and the Bangalore Development Authority an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees. Further, it is also proposed that any person who had unauthorisedly occupied land belonging to any of the said bodies and who fails to vacate such land in pursuance of an order under Section 5(1) of the Karnataka Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act 1974, shall on conviction be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with a further fine which may extend to Rs.50 per acre of land or part thereof for every Bangalore Development Authority [1976: KAR. ACT 12 106 day on eviction. A person who intentionally aids or abets the commission of these offences shall also be liable to receive the same punishment. It is proposed to introduce this provision in the following statutes: (1) The City of Mysore Improvement Act, 1903 (2) Karnataka Village Panchayats and Local Boards Act, 1959. (3) Karnataka Municipal Act, 1964. (4) Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976. (5) Karnataka Improvement Boards Act, 1976. (6) Bangalore Development Authority Act, 1976. (3) It is also proposed to extend the application of Chapter III A of the Karnataka Slum Areas (Improvement and Clearance) Act 1974 to the whole State and to make the Tahsildar of the Taluk the licensing authority, where there is already no licensing authority. Hence the Bill. (Published in the Karnataka Gazette Part IV-2A (Extraordinary) No. 104 dated 6.2.1984 at page 9.) VII Amending Act 34 of 1986.- Under section 10 of the Bangalore Development Authority Act, the Commissioner has been empowered to sanction any estimate etc., if the value not exceeding one lakh rupees and the Authority may sanction any estimate etc., of the value exceeding rupees five lakhs. Now it is proposed to enhance this outer limit to rupees twenty lakhs and rupees fifty lakhs respectively.