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Vesting of rights in the State Government.- Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law for the time being in force or in an agreement, instrument, custom or usage or any decree or order of any court or other authority all rights, title and interests including the contingent interest, if any, of the landowner in the lands in any estate- (a) vested in a Panchayat under section 4 of the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1961 (18 of 1961 as in force in the areas added to Himachal Pradesh under section 5 of the Punjab Re-organization Act, 1966 (31 of 1966) except lands used or reserved for the benefit of village community including streets, lanes, playgrounds, schools, drinking wells or ponds within abadi deh or garah deh; 1 [(b) described in the revenue records as shamlat taraf, pattis, pannas, thola, shamlat, shamlat deh, shamlat chak, shamlat tika or by any such other description and not used according to revenue records for the benefit of the community in the village or a part thereof or for common purposes of the village in the areas added to Himachal Pradesh under section 5 of the Punjab Re-organisation Act,1966; and (c) described in revenue records as shamlat, shamlat deh, shmlat taraf, shmlat chak, pattti or by any other such description in the areas, comprised in Himachal Pradesh, immediately before 1st November,1966;] 1.Substituted vide section 3 (a) of Act No.20 of 2001. shall stand extinguished and all such rights, title and interest shall vest in the State Government free from all encumbrances. (2). The provisions of sub-section (1) of this section shall not apply to lands described in clause (b) and (c) of that sub-section if, before the date of commencement of this Act- (a) partition of such lands is made by the individuals co-sharers through a process of law by a competent court or authority, (b) transfer of such lands is made by the landowner by way of sale, gift or exchange, (c) such land built upon by an inhabitant by raising a residential house or cow-shed, 1[(d) land recorded as “shamlat tika Hasab Rasad Malguzari” or by any other name in the ownership column of jamabandi and assessed to land revenue and has been continuously recorded in cultivating possession of the Co- sharers so recorded before 26th January,1950 to the extent of their shares therein: Provided that the provisions of this clause shall not be applicable to such lands which have already been put to use by the Government.] 2[(2-a). The land reverted back to co-sharers under clause (d) of sub-section (2) shall not be transferred by such co-sharers, by way of sale, gift, mortgage or otherwise, during a period of twenty five years from the date of mutation of such land. (2-b). No Registrar or the Sub-Registrar, appointed under (16 of 1908) the Registration Act, 1908, shall register any document pertaining to transfer of such land, which is in contravention of sub-section (2-a) and such transfer shall be void abinitio and the land involved in such transfer, if made in contravention of sub- section (2-a), shall vest in the State Government free from all encumbrances.] (3) The State Government shall be liable to pay, and the landowners whose rights have been extinguished under sub-section (1) of this section shall be entitled to receive the amount in lieu thereof at the following rates:-