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at page. 3.) VI Amending Act 22 of 2000.- Note.- While repealing certain spent and obsolete laws certain consequential amendments are made to certain Acts including this Act. * * * * VII Amending Act 22 of 2003.-Sub-section (3) of section 5 and section 7A of the Karnataka Village Offices Abolition Act, 1961 prohibits transfer of re-granted land within a period of 15 years from the date of commencement of section 1 and section 7A of the Karnataka Village Offices Abolition (Amendment) Act, 1978. They have come into force with effect from 7.8.1978. The fifteen years period has already expired in the year 1993. Farmers are selling their land and thereby loosing their lands which were granted to them by the Government earlier. Therefore, in order to safeguard the interest of farmers it is considered necessary to amend the said Act to prohibit transfer of re- granted land for a period of fifteen years from the date of re-grant made on or after the commencement of the Karnataka Village Offices Abolition (Amendment) Act, 2003 Hence the Bill. (Published in Karnataka Gazette (Extraordinary) Part IV-A, dated 9th May 2003 as No. 497 at page 13) VIII Amendment Act 23 of 2025:- It is considered necessary further to amend the Karnataka Village Offices Abolition Act, 1961 (Karnataka Act 14 of 1961) to substitute the reference of the provisions of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 to respective provision in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Central Act 45 of 2023). Hence, the Bill. [L.A. Bill No.14 of 2025, File No. SAMVYASHAE 20 SHASANA 2025] [Entry 18 of List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.] [Published in Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary No.213 in part-IVA dated:04.04.2025] 4 1[KARNATAKA ACT]1 No. 14 OF 1961 (First published in the 1[Karnataka Gazette]1 on the Twentieth day of July, 1961.) THE 1[KARNATAKA]1 VILLAGE OFFICES ABOLITION ACT, 1961 (Received the assent of the President on the Eighth day of July, 1961.) (As amended by Acts 8 of 1968, 13 of 1978, 27 of 1984, 47 of 1986 , 22 of 2000, 22 of 2003 and 23 of 2025) An Act to abolish Village Offices in the 1[State of Karnataka]1. WHEREAS it is expedient in the public interest to abolish the village offices which were held hereditarily before the commencement of the Constitution and the emoluments appertaining thereto in the 1[State of Karnataka]1 and to provide for matters consequential and incidental thereto; BE it enacted by the 1[Karnataka State]1 Legislature in the Twelfth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—