(1) The prescribed authority may, by issuing a notice as prescribed, order all the landowners to submit, or cause to be submitted, an inventory as prescribed within Thirty five days after the date of issuance of the notice. Provided that:24 (a) If it appears necessary to extend the time limit on an application made by the concerned person or for any other reasonable reason, the prescribed authority may give an additional time limit of up to Thirty five days after the date on which the time limit expires. (b) If any government employee or a person having gone abroad who has failed to submit the inventory within the time limit makes an application for the extension of the time limit, Government of Nepal or the prescribed authority may, if it deems necessary, give an additional time limit. (c)25 If a landowner who has the land below the upper ceiling fails to submit the inventory within the time limit, such landowner may submit the inventory within One Hundred Twenty days after the date on which a notice is published by the prescribed authority after the commencement of this proviso.
(1a)26 In submitting an inventory pursuant to Sub-section (1), a landowner shall submit to any one District only where his/her land is situated a single inventory of the details of all lands held by him/her in his/her or his/her family’s name as a landowner or tenant, in Nepal. (2) It shall be the duty of every landowner to submit, or cause to be submitted, an inventory as referred to in Sub-sections (1) and (1a). 27 Such inventory must be submitted by the head of the family, in the case of a family, and by his guardian or heir, in the case of a landowner who is minor or of unsound mind.
(2a)28 If even only one party out of the lender or the borrower submits the inventory in respect of the land on usufruct mortgage or pledge, an inventory shall be deemed to have been submitted in respect of such land for the purposes of this Section.
(3) A landowner who owns lands in one or more than one area in excess of the upper ceiling allowed under Section 7 shall also set out, in an inventory to be submitted under this Section, the matter as to which land he/she wants to hold and which land he/she wants to relinquish.