Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
, Section 13 of Punjab Act No. 16 of 1962, reads as follows: — 13, “Validation.—Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in any other law for the time being in force or in any judgment, decree or order of any court or other authority, where the surplus area in respect of the land owned by a Hindu undivided family referred to in clause (a) of section 32-KK of the principal Act, has been determined under that Act at any time before the commencement of this Act by any authority competent to determine such area, whether by ignoring the partition of any such land under section 32-FF or otherwise, such determination shall be valid and shall be deemed always to have been valid and shall not be questioned on the ground that the descendants of the landowner constituting with him the Hindu undivided family were landowners in their own right in respect of their shares in ‘such land or on ground that the partition had been ignored.” 1955 : Pepsu Act 13] TENANCY AND AGRICULTURAL 155 LANDS of his share of such land he is a landowner in his own right; and (b) a partition of land owned by a Hindu undivided family referred to in clause (a) shall be deem- ed to be a disposition of land for the purposes of section 32-FF. Ezxplanation.—In this section, the expression “des- cendant” includes an adopted sonl- wr 32-L. (1) Notwithstanding anything to the con- Ceiling trary in any law, custom, usage, contract or agreement, future acquisi- from and after the commencement of the Pepsu Tenancy tion of land. and Agricultural Lands (Second Amendment) Act, 1956, no person whether as landowner or tenant shall acquire or possess by transfer, exchange, lease, agreement or settle- ment any land which, with or without the land already owned or held by him, shall in the aggregate, exceed the permissible limit. (2) Any transfer, exchange, lease, agreement or settlement made in contravention of the provisions of sub- section ({) shall be null and void.