Punjab Land Reforms (Amendment) Act, 2010 (Punjab Act No. 15 of 2014)

PUNJAB GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA), AUGUST 04, 2014 (SRVN 13, 1936 SAKA) 61 PART I GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS, PUNJAB NOTIFICATION The 4th August, 2014 No. 16.-Leg./2014.-The following Act of the Legislature of the State of Punjab received the assent of the President of India on the 17th Day of July, 2014, is hereby published for general information: THE PUNJAB LAND REFORMS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2010 (Punjab Act No. 15 of 2014) AN ACT further to amend the Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972. BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Sixty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows: 1. (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Land Reforms (Amendment) Act, 2010. (2) It shall come into force at once. 2. In the Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972, in section 5, for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely: “(1) Every person, who on the appointed day or at any time thereafter, owns or holds land as landowner or mortgagee with possession or tenant or partly in one capacity and partly in another in excess of the permissible area, shall select his permissible area and intimate his selection to the Collector, and where land is situate in more than one district, to the Collectors concerned, through a declaration, to be furnished in such form and manner and within such period, as may be prescribed and if such person has an adult son or adult daughter, he shall also be entitled to select separate permissible area in respect of each such son or daughter, as the case may be, out of the land owned or held by him, subject to the Short title and commencement. Amendment in section 5 of Punjab Act 10 of 1973. PUNJAB GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA), AUGUST 04, 2014 (SRVN 13, 1936 SAKA) 62 condition that the land so selected together with the land already owned or held by such son or daughter, shall not exceed the permissible area of each such son or daughter: Provided that where land is situated in more than one patwar circle, the declaration shall be supported by an affidavit in the prescribed form.”. H.P.S. MAHAL, Secretary to Government of Punjab, Department of Legal and legislative Affairs. 556/08-2014/Pb. Govt. Press, S.A.S. Nagar