State Act

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands Land Revenue and Reforms Regulation 1966

142. Every person belonging to any of the following classes shall be called an occupancy tenant and shall have all the rights and be subject to all the liabilities conferred or imposed upon an occupancy tenant by or under this Regulation, namely :- (a) every person who, immediately before the commencement of this Regulation, had acquired the right of occupancy under the provisions of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands (Land Tenure) Regulation, 1926; (b) every person who has, as a non-occupancy tenant, cultivated any holding, not being a holding situated within the local limits of the Port Blair Municipal Board, continuously for a period of two years from the commencement of this Regulation or of such tenancy, whichever is later, in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation and is not in arrears of land revenue.