Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law for the time being in force or in any agreement, instrument, custom or usage or any decree or order of any court or other authority, all rights, title and interests whatever in the land, (a) which is included in the shamilat deh of any village and which has not vested in a panchayat under the shamilat law shall, at the commencement of this Act, vest in panchayat constituted for such village, and where no such payment has been constituted for such village, vests in the panchayat on such date as a panchayat having jurisdiction over that vilage is constituted: (b) which is situated within or outside the abadi deh of a village and which is under the house owned by a non proprictor, shall on the commencement of the shamilat law, be deemed to have been vested in such non proprietor. (2) Any land which is vested in a panchayat under the shamilat law shall be deemed to have been vested in the panchayat under this Act. (3) Nothing contained in clause (a) of sub-section (l) and is sub-section (2) shall affect or shall be deemed ever to have affected the prescribed : (i) existing rights, title or interest of persons who though not entered as occupancy tenants in the revenue records are accorded a similar status by custom or otherwise, such as Dholidars, Bhondedars, Butimars, Basikhuopahus, Saunjidars, Muqararidars: "I(ü) rights of persons who were in cultivating possession of shamilat deh on the date of the commencement of the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1953, or the Pepsu Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1954, and were in such cultivating possession for more than twelve years on such commencement without payment of rent or by payment of charges not exceeding the land revenue and cesses payable thereon ;] (iiü) rights of a mortgagee to whom such land is mortgaged with possession before the 26th January, 1950. s. () AIl lands vested or deemed to have been vested in a Regulation of panchayat under this Act, shall be utilized or disposed of by the panchayat, use and for the benefit of the inhabitants of the village concerned in the manner occupation etc. Provided that where two or more villages have a common panchayat the shamilat deh of each village shall be utilised and disposed of by the panchayat for the benefit of the inhabitants of that village :