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SECTIONS 17 AND 18 NOT TO APPLY TO CERTAIN PROPERTY AND surplus area of their father—Father had sold the land to his sons in 1958—Father TENANTS. - Nothing contained in Section 17 or Section 18 shall affect any Ian was 'a' big tend owner— Land in dispute came to be declared surplus in 1960— which is evacuee property, as defined in the Administration of Evacuee Prope Not challenged—Order attained finality— Haryana Act came into force on Act, 1950 (XXXI of 1950) or any other land which may at any time be acquired b*January 24, 1971- Section 12(3) of Haryana Act provided that all lands declared the Central Government for settlement of displaced persons. i surplus lender Punjab Act of 1953, which remained unutilised and did not vest • In the State, shall be deemed to have been vested in the State on the appointed , 19-A. BAR OF FUTURE ACQUISITION OF LAND IN EXCESS Of day—'Surplus area proceedingshavIng become final under Punjab Act, could not PERMISSIBLE AREA. (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any la be reopened in terms of Haryana Act, after 24.1.1971.; Janga v. Zora Singh : custom, usage, contract or agreement, .from and after the commencement of th i 2004(1) Land L.R. (Pb. & Hry.) 407 Punjab Security of Land Tenures (Amendment) Ordinance, 1958, no persont whetheras landowner or tenant, shall acquire or possess by transfer, exchange; lease, agreement or settlement any land, which with or without the land alreadf 19-C, POWER TO CAUSE DELIVERY OF POSSESSION OF SURPLUS owned or held by him, shall in the aggregate exceed the permissible area: !AREA.- (1) The Collector may from time to time by order in writing direct the Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to lands belonging tii landowner or the tenant to deliver possession of the land in his surplus area to • registered Cooperative Societies formed for purposes of co-operativthe person resettled on such land by the State Government or any officer farming, if the land owned by individual member of the society does no empowered by it within ten days of the service of the order on him. exceed the permissible area. (2) If the landownr or the tenant refuses or fails without reasonable cause to (2) Any transfer, exchange, lease, agreement or settlement made iiicomplywith an order made under sub-section (1) the Collector may cause the contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) shall be null and void. ii1111111=1111111111.111Mi FaVignignall.1111111111.11111111.1* ' ' 20 THE PUNJAB SECURITY OF LAND TENURES ACT, 1953 Section---19D, 19DD, 19E and 19F possession of the land in tha surplus area to be delivered to the person resettled on it and may for that purpose use such force as may be necessary. 19-ID. EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN LANDS. - The provisions of this Act shall not apply to lands granted to any member of the Armed Forces of the Union for gallantry. 19-DD. EXEMPTION OF LANDS GRANTED FOR GALLANTRY BEFORE 26 TH JANUARY, 1950. - Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act where any land is granted for gallantry, at any time before the 26 1h January, 1950, to any member of the Armed Forces, whether maintained by the Central Government or by any Indian State, then, so lo ng as Section 21—Punjab Village Common Lands (Reg.) Act. 1961— Section .7— Punjab Village Common Lands (Reg.) Rules, 1964—Rule 19—As per orders of the Asstt. Collector 1st Grade, confirmed by Collector and Commissioner, petitioner was ordered to be ejected from the land which he took on lease for one year from Gram Panchayat, lease not renewed thereafter—Orders are challenged by this writ petition— Petitioners denied that Gram Panchayat was owner and further submitted that this question of title should have been decided by Asstt. Collector and then proceed further—After having taken the land on lease from Gram Panchayat, he could not deny the ownership of the lessor—His possession after expiry of lease is unauthorised—Vires of the Rule 19 which defines the unauthorised person has been upheld as per 1969 PLJ 378— Unauthorised occupant can be ejected under Section 7 of the Pb. V.C.L. Act read with Rule 19—Provisions of Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, 1953 do not apply to Panchayat lands—Writ petition dismissed with costs.; Ved Parkash v. Commissioner, Ambala Division, Ambala : 2003(3) Land.L.R. (Pb. & Hry.) 440 21-A. POWER TO REMOVE DIFFICUTIES BY MODIFICATION OF PROVISIONS IN CERTAIN CASES. - (1) The State Government may, for the purpose of preventing or removing any hardship or difficulty, by a special or general order, to be notified in the official Gazette direct that any of the provisions of this Act shall apply to any class of tenants or owners, with such modifications, as may be specified in that order. (2) Any order made under sub-section (1) shall be laid before both the Houses of Legislature during the session next following after the making of such order, and c and or any portion thereof case may be, has not passed from the original grantee into more thanas three successive hands, by inheritance bequest, or is held by the grantee or any 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 any tenant of such land or portion have the right to purchase it under Section 18: Provided that where land or portion as the case may be has passed into more than three such hands and the person ho/ding such land or portion, immediately before the 3'd August, 1967, is a person to whom it has passed by inheritance or bequest, the exemption under this section shall time of such person. apply to such land or portion thereof, as the case my be, during the life 19-E. LAND OWNED BY HINDU UNDIVIDED FAMILY TO BE DEEMED LAND OF ONE LANDOWNER. - Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in any other law for the time being in force - (a) where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a landowner and his descendants constitute a Hindu undivided family the land owned by such family shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be the land of that landowner and no descendant shall, as member of such family, be entitled to claim that in respect of his share of such land he is a landowner in this own right; and (b) a partition of land owned by a Hindu undivided family referred to In clause (a) shall be deemed to be a disposition of land for the purposes of Sections 10-A and 16. Explanation - In this section, the expression "descendant" includes an adopted son. 19-F. REMOVAL OF CERTAIN DOUBTS. - For the removal of doubts it is hereby declared - (a) that the State Government or any officer empowered in this behalf shall be competent and shall be deemed always to have been competent, to determine in the prescribed manner the surplus area referred to in Section 19-A of a landowner out of the lands owned by such landowner immediately before the commencement of this Act; and THE PUNJAB SECURITY OF LAND TENURES ACT, 1953 21 Section---20, 21 and 21A (b) that for evaluating the land of any person at any time under this Act, the land owned by him immediately before the commencement of this Act, or the land acquired by him after such commencement by inheritance or by bequest or gift from a person to whom he is an heir, shall always be evaluated for converting into standard acres as if the evaluation was being made on the date of such commencement, and that the land acquired by him after such commencement in any other manner shall always be evaluated for converting into standard acres. as if the evaluation was being made on the date of such the