Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
164 TENANCY AND AGRICULTURAL [1955 : Pepsu Act i3 LANDS (iii) any other religious place of a public nature; ces (iv) a wakf as defined in clause (I) of section 3 of the Muslim Wakfs Act, 1954 (Parliament Act 29 of 1954); or {vj any other institution of a public nature the object of which is relief to the poor, education, medical relief or the ad- vancement of any other object of gene- ral public utility including religious teaching or worship; which the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify]. : | *[(2) The provisions of section 7, section 7-A and Chapter IV shall not apply to lands leased out by the Punjab State Co-operative Land Mortgage Bank Limited established under the Punjab Co-operative Land Mortgage Banks Act, 1957.] °[51-A. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, where any land is granted for gallantry at any time before the 26th day of January, 1950, to any member of the armed forces; whether maintained by the Central Government or by any Indian State, then, so long as such land or anv 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 of such hands, such land or portion, as the case may be, shall not be taken into account in computing the surplus area under this Act, nor shall anv tenant of such land or portion have the right to purchase it under section 22 ; ’ Provided that where such land or portion has passed into more than three such hands and the per- son holding such land or portion, immediately before 1Added by Punjsh Act No. 18 of 1962, section 12. ) Inserted and shall be deemed always to have been inserted by Punjab Act 11 of 1968, Section