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Sections 17 and 18 not to apply to certain property and tenants.- Nothing contained in Section 17 or Section 18 shall affect any land which is evacuee property, as defined in the Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1950 (XXXI of 1950) 1[***] or any other land which may at any time be acquired by the Central Government for resettlement of displaced persons. 2[19-A. Bar of future acquisition of land in excess of permissible area.- (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any law, custom, usage, contract or agreement, from and after thc commencement of the Punpb Security of Land Tenures (Amendment) Ordinance, 1958, no person, whether landowner, or tenant, shall acquire or possess by transfer, exchange, lease, agreement or settlement any land, which with or without the land already owned or held by him, shall in the aggregate exceed the permissible area: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to land belonging to registered Cooperative Societies formed for purposes of co-operative farming if the land owned by an individual member of the socIety does not exceed the permissible area. (2) Any transfer, exchange, lease, agreement or settlement made In contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) shall be null and vOid.] 19-B. Future acquisition of land by inheritance, in exceS51 of permissible area.- (1) 3[Subject to the provisions of SectlOn 10-A, if after the commencement of this Act, any person, whether as landowner or tenant, acquires by inheritance or by bequest or gift from a person to whom he is an heir and land, or if after the commencement of this Act and before the 30th July, 1958, any person has acquired by transfer, exchange,..lease, agreement or settlement any land, or if, after such commencement, any person acqUires in any other manner any land, which, with or without the lands already owned or held by him, exceeds in the aggregate the permissible area then he shalL within the period prescribed, furnish to the Collector, a return in the prescribed form and manner giving the particulars of al1 lands and selectmg the land not exceeding in the aggregate the permissible area whIch he deSires to retain, and if the land of such person is situated in more than one patwar circle, he shall also furnish a declaration required by Section 5-A. The words "'at the commencement of this Act" omitted by Punjab Act 0.32 of 1959. section 4. 2 Section 19A, 198, J 9C and 190 inserted by Punjab Act NO.4 of 1059, section 4. 3 Substituted for the words" if after the commencement of this Act. any person, whether as land owner or tenant, acquires by inheritance or bequest or gift from a person to whom he is an heir any land or if after the commencement of this Act and before the 30th July. 1958, any person has acquired by transfer, exchange. lease, agreement or settlement any land" by Punjab Act No. 14 of 1962, section 6 with effect from the 30th July, 1958 (2) If he fails to furnish the return and select his land within the prescribed perIod, then the Collector may in respect of him obtain the information required to be shown in the return through such agency as he may deem fit 1 [and select the land for him in the manner specified in sub-section (2) of Section 5-B.] (3) If such person fails to furnish the declaration, the provisions of Section 5-C shall apply. (4) The excess land of such person shaIJ be at the disposal of the State Govel11ment for utilisation as surplus area under clause (a) of Section 10-A or for such other purposes as the State Govel11ment may by notification direct. Comments Sections] 9A and] 9B--Acquisitions--Fallow land--Fallow lands brought under cultivation--Question arose whether such change brings about an acquisition to the existing holding of the landowners when those lands were already owned by him--Held, that the intendment of the Act is that in whatever maImer the evaluation of the holdings gets improved, that is outside the scope of acquisition for such an act of improvement is not an acquisition in terms of Sections 19A and 19B Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act. Gopal Ram v. State of Haryalla, 1999(3) ICC (SC) 442 19-C. Power to cause delivery of possession of surplus area.- The Collector may from time to time by order in writing direct the landowner or the tenant-<d:odeliver possession of the land in his surplus area to the person resettled on such land by the State Govel11ment or any officer empowered by It within ten days of the service of the order on him. (2) If the landowner or the tenant refuses or fails without reasonable cause to comply with an order made under sub-section (1) the Collector may cause the possession of the land in the surplus area to be delivered to the person resettled on it and may for that purpose use such force as may be necessary. 19-0. Exemption of certain lands.- The provisions of this Act shall not apply to lands granted to any member of the Armed Forces of the UnIon for gallantry. 2[19-0D. Exemption of lands granted for gallantry before 26th January, 1950.- Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, where any land 1S granted for gallantry, at any time before the 26th day January. 1950, to any member of the Armed Forces, whether maintained by the Central Govel11ment or by any Indian State, then, so long as such land or any portion thereof. as the case may be. has not passed from the original grantee into more than three successive hands, by inheritance or bequest. and is held by the grantee. or any such hands, such land or portion as the case may be. shaIJ not Added by Punjab Act No. 14 of 1962, with effect from the 30th July.