(1) Except in cases of acquisition by way of partition or succession, no person shall, as a landowner, obtain any land in any manner in his or another person’s name, in excess of the upper ceiling specified in Section 7. (2) If a person makes submission to have registration of a land acquired by that person in any manner, an instrument of such transaction shall not be registered unless and until the person acquiring the land submits to the Registering Authority an inventory setting out the total area of land that he/she owns for the time being as a landowner, in his/her or another person’s name, within Nepal. (3) If it appears from an inventory submitted pursuant to Sub-section (2) that a land has been acquired or is intended to be acquired in contravention of Sub-section (1), the Registration Office shall not register an instrument of such transaction.