Bare ActsThe Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1955 (PEPSU)

Section 32A

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(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any law, custom, usage or agreement, no person shall be entitled to own or hold as landowner or tenant land under his personal cultivation within the State which exceeds in the aggregate the permissible limit. (2) For the purposes of computing the permissible limit under sub-section (1), the provisions of clauses {d) and (e) of sub-section (2) of section 3 shall not apply. b: . Bons having 32-B. Any person, who on the commencement of the land in excess of Pepsu Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Second Amend- the ceiling. ment) Act, 1956, owns or holds as landowner or tenant land under his personal cultivation, which in the aggregate exceeds the permissible limit, shall within a period of ’[one month from the commencement of the Pepsu Tenancy and Agricultural Lands {( Amendment) Ordinance, 1958] furnish to the Collector a return giving the particu- lars of all his land in the prescribed form and manner and stating therein his selection of the parcel or parcels of land not exceeding in the aggregate the permissible limit which he desires to retain and the lands in respect of which he claims exemption from the ceiling under the pro- visions of this Chapter: *[Provided that such person shall state in the return any transfer or other disposition of land made by him after the 21st August, 1956, and where a person has fur- nished a return before the commencement of the Pepsu Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Amendment) Ordinance, 1958, he shall within the aforesaid period intimate to the Collector any such transfer or other disposition of land made by him.] Declarations ‘[32BB. (1) Every landowner or tenant required to Shporied 0 2 furnish a return under section 32-B, whose land is situated furnished cotaed BY Chapter IV-A, inserted by Pepsu Act No. 15 of 1956. ownens and 2Substituted for the words “six months from the commencement tenants. of the Pepsu Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Amendment) Ordinance, 1957, by Punjab Act No. 3 of 1959, section

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