or continued in respect of or annexed to a village office by the State has been lawfully leased and such lease was subsisting on the appointed date (1-21963), the provisions of the tenancy law for the time being in force in the area in which the land is situate, shall apply to the said lease. At this juncture, it is necessary to refer to the provisions of Section 5 of the Mysore Village Offices Abolition Act, 1908 which did not prohibit the leases of service inam lands, when such lease was neither permanent nor for a long period and was not a ‘transfer’ which is prohibited by Section 5 of the said Act. So, in view of the above said provision, if the appellants are successful in establishing that there was a lawful subsisting lease on the appointed date, the appellants are entitled to the grant of occupancy rights. Furthermore, we feel it just and proper to refer to the provisions of Section 126 of the KLR Act, which reads as under: