(1) No one shall register in his or her name or cultivate, or cause to be registered or cultivated, any governmental land or public land. Provided that, nothing contained in this Sub-section shall be deemed to prevent the making provision by the Government of Nepal of a public land for public purposes and a governmental land for any purpose that the Government of Nepal deems appropriate.
(2) Where any person has registered any public land or governmental land in his or her name and cultivated it prior to or after the commencement of this Section, such registration shall ipso facto be void. The Land Revenue Office or an authority specified by Government of Nepal shall cross off the registration of such land standing in the name of any person.
(3) The concerned Land Revenue Office shall register the governmental land and the public land and update the records as prescribed.