(1) The designated authority may issue a notice as specified and order the landowners who have land in excess of the maximum limit to file the Fantwari within 35 days from the date of issuance of the notice. But –
(a) If it is found necessary to extend the deadline on the application of the concerned person or for any other reasonable reason, the designated authority may grant an additional deadline of up to 35 days from the date of expiry of the deadline.
(b) If any government employee or person who has gone abroad is not able to file the Fantwari within the deadline, if such person applies to extend the deadline, the Government of Nepal or the designated authority may grant an additional deadline if deemed necessary.
(c) ……………………..
(1a) When filing a fantwari according to sub-section (1), the land owner, as a land owner or Mohi, must open the details of all the land in Nepal in the name of himself or his family in one fantwari and file it only in one of the districts where his land is located.
(2) It shall be the duty of every land owner to file the fantwari as per sub-section (1) and (1A). In the case of such Fantwari family, the head of that family and in the case of a nawalak or jaggwala who does not have a registered address should be filed by his guardian or legal guardian.
(2A) In the case of Bhog or Drishtibandha land, even if only one of the parties, the creditor or the plaintiff, submits a Fantwari, for the purpose of this section, the Fantwari will be deemed to have been submitted in respect of such land.
(3) A landowner who owns more than the maximum amount of land that can be kept in one or more areas according to section 7, when submitting a fantwari in accordance with this section, he must also disclose in the fantwari which land to keep and which land to leave.