9. Restoration of tenant ejected after the 15^th of August, 1947 - (1) Where a tenant has been ejected from any land in excess of the permissible area on grounds other than those mentioned in section 9,before the commencement of this Act, and after the 15^th,August, 1947, and such land is under self-cultivation, such tenant shall ¹[subject to the provisions of this Act be entitled to be restored to his tenancy in the manner prescribed on the same terms and conditions on which it was held Grade having jurisdiction within one year from the date of from intimation of reservation after the commencement of this Act, or, if no such reservation is made within the period specified in sub-section (3) of section5,two years from the date of commencement of this Act:

Provided that if more tenants than one have been ejected from the same tenancy, the right of application for restoration shall be exercisable in serial order of priority commencing from the tenant first ejected and to the extent in each case of the permissible area, after taking in to account any other tenancy or land which the ejected tenant holds at the time of his application for restoration]

(2) On receipt of an application the Assistant Collector shall, after giving to the parties notice in writing and a reasonable opportunity to be heard, determine the dispute summarily, and shall keep a memorandum of evidence and a gist of his final order with brief reasons therefor.

(3) When an application has been made, any proceedings in relation to the same matter pending in any other court or before any other authority shall be stayed on receipt of information by that court or authority from such Assistant Collector of the fact of having received the application and all such proceedings in a court or before any authority shall lapse when the dispute has been determined by the Assistant Collector acting under this Act.

¹Substituted by Punjab Act 57 of 1953.

(4) A landlord or any other person in actual possession of land at the time of restoration shall be entitled to such compensation as may be determined by the Assistant Collector, from the tenant intended to be restored for any loss suffered in consideration of anything done prior to the date of his first receiving information of the application :

Provided that no ejected tenant shall be restored to his tenancy as provided here in before unless he has paid compensation as determined by the Assistant Collector to the land-owner or other person , if any, as the case may be.

¹[10-A. (a) The State Government or any officer empowered by it in this be half, shall be competent to utilize any surplus area for the resettlement of tenants ejected, or to be ejected, under clause(I) of sub section (1) of section 9.

(b) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force² [ and save in the case of land acquired by the State Government under any law for the time being in force or by an heir by inheritance] no transfer or other disposition of land which is comprised in surplus area at the commencement of this Act, shall affect the utilization thereof in clause (a).

Explanation – Such utilization of any surplus area will not affect the right of the land-owner to receive rent from the tenant so settled.]

³[(c) For the purpose of determining the surplus area of any person under this section. any judgement decree or order of a court or other authority, obtained after the commencement of this Act and having the effect of diminishing the area of such person which could have been declared as his surplus area shall be ignored]

¹New section-A added by Punjab Act 11 of 1955 and shall always be deemed to have been inserted with effect from the 15^th April, 1953—vide section 10 of Punjab Act no.14 of 1962.

²Inserted by Punjab Act No. 4 of 1959,section 2.

³Clause (c) added with effect from the 15^th April, 1953, by Punjab Act No. 14 of 19652, section 1 (2) and 10.

¹[10-B. Saving by inheritance not to apply after utilisation of surplus area - Where succession has opened after the surplus area or any part thereof has been utilised under clause (a) of section 10-A, the saving specified in favour of an heir by inheritance under clause (b) of that section shall not apply in respect of the area so utilised.

11. Tenant’s right to water- Save in proportion to a reduction in the tenancy, if any, a land owner shall not competent to curtail or terminate the supply of canal or use of well water enjoyed by a tenant immediately before the commencement of this Act, and a breach of this provision shall constitute a cognizable offence punishable with imprisonment which may extend to six months and shall be triable by a court not below the rank of a second Class Magistrate.

12. Amount of maximum rent - (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887 (Act XVI of 1887), or in any agreement or usage or any decree or order of a court, the maximum rent payable by a tenant for any land held by him as such shall not exceed one- third of the crop of such land or the value thereof as determined in the prescribed manner, and where the customary rent is less than one-third the maximum rent shall be such customary rent.

(2) In computing the maximum rent payable be a tenant, such portion of the rent if any, as represents the consideration for services or facilities provided by the land-owner in relation to the land shall not be taken into account.

13. Assessment of charges for service or facilities provided by the land-owner - Unless the charges payable for services or facilities provided by the land owner in relation to the land have been specifically provided for in an agreement between the parties, such charges shall be determined by the Assistant Collector, ,First Grade having jurisdiction, who shall give due regard to the usage of the locality and if there is no such usage, he shall give regard, amongst other matters, to –

(a) the direct advantage gained by the land by the provision of such services or facilities;

(b) the condition or nature of the services or facilities and the probable duration of their effects ;

(c) the labour or capital required for the provisions of such services or facilities.

¹New section 10-B inserted with effect from the 15 April,1953, by Punjab Act 14 of 1962, section 5 and 1 (2).

14. Duty of land owner to furnish receipt for rent from tenant - (1) Every landowner shall give or cause to be given a valid receipt to the tenant in the form prescribed for the rent received by him or on his behalf.

(2) Any landowner who fails to give or cause to be given such receipt shall on conviction be punishable with a fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.

¹[14-A. Not with standing anything to the contrary contained in any other law for the time being in force, and subject to the provisions of section 9-A.-

(i) a land owner desiring to eject a tenant under this Act shall apply in writing to the Assistant Collector First Grade having jurisdiction, who shall thereafter proceed as provided for in sub-section (2) of sub-section 10 of this Act, and the provisions of sub-section (3) of the said section shall also apply in relation to such application, provided that the tenants rights to compensation and acquisition of occupancy rights, if any under the Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887 ( XVI of 1887), shall not be affected;

(ii) a land-owner desiring to recover arrears of rent from a tenant shall apply in writing to the Assistant Collector Second Grade ,having jurisdiction, who shall thereupon send a notice in the form prescribed to the tenant either to deposit the rent or value thereof , if payable in kind or give proof of having paid it or of the fact that he is not liable to pay the whole or part of the rent or of the fact of the landlords refusal to receive the same or to give a receipt, within the period specified in the notice. Where, after summary determination, as provided for in sub-section (2) of Section 10 of this Act, the Assistant Collector finds that the tenant has not paid or deposited the rent he shall eject the tenant summarily and put the landowner in possession of the land concerned;

(iii) (a) if a landlord refuses to accept rent from his tenant or demands rent in excess of what he is entitled to under this Act, or refuses to give a receipt, the tenant may in writing inform the Assistant Collector second Grade, having jurisdiction of the fact;

¹New section 14-A, added by Punjab Act, 11 of 1955.

(b) on receiving such application, the Assistant Collector shall by a written notice require the landlord to accept the rent payable in accordance with this Act, or to give a receipt, as the case maybe , or both ,within 60 days of the receipt of the notice ]

15. ¹ * * *

²[16. Saving of tenancies from effect of mala fide transfer - Save in the case of land acquired by the State Government under any law for the time being in force or by an heir by inheritance, no transfer or other disposition of land effect after the Ist February, 1955,shall affect the rights of the tenant thereon under this Act]

17. Right of certain tenants to pre-empt sale etc. of land- Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any law usage or contract and subject to the provisions of section 18, tenant of land-owner other than a small land-owner ;-

(i) Who has been in continuous occupation of the land comprised in his tenancy for a period exceeding four years on the date of the sale of the land or foreclosure of the right to redeem the land, or

(ii) in case of a sale or foreclosure that has taken place or shall take place within a period of three years from the commencement of this Act and there is no tenant who has acquired a right under clause(I)

(a) Who was ejected from tenancy after the 14^th day of August, 1947 and before the commencement of this Act on grounds other than those mentioned in section 9, and was in continuous occupation of the land comprised in his tenancy for a period exceeding four years on the date of his ejectment, or

(b) Who has been (restored to his tenancy under the provisions of this Act and whose period of continuous occupation of the land comprised in his tenancy immediately before ejectment and immediately after restoration of his tenancy together exceed four years shall, in preference to the rights of other pre-emptors as provided in the Punjab Pre-emption Act, 1913 (Act I of 1913) except the descendants of vendors grand-father be entitled to pre-empt the sale or foreclosure of the land other than the land comprised in the reserved area of the land area of the land owner in the manner prescribed in that Act within one years from the date of sale or foreclosure as the case may be :

Provided that no tenant referred to in this sub-section shall be entitled to exercise any such right in respect of the land or any portion thereof, if he had sublet the land or the portion,as the case may be to any other person unless during that period the tenant was suffering from a legal disability or physical infirmity, or if a woman, was a widow or was unmarried.

¹Omitted by Punjab Act No. 32 of 1958, section 3.

²Substituted by Punjab Act 11 of 1955.

¹[17-A. Certain sales of tenancy land not preemptible - 1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Act, of the Punjab Pre-Emption Act, 1913, a sale of land comprising the tenancy of a tenant made to him by the land-owner shall not be pre-emptible under the Punjab Pre-emption Act, 1913, and no decree of pre-emption passed after the commencement of this Act, in respect of any such sale of land shall be executed by any court ;

Provided that for the purposes of this sub-section the expression tenant includes a joint tenant to whom whole or part of the land comprising the joint tenancy is sold by land-owner :

(2) Where, after the commencement of this Act, a tenant, to whom the land comprising his tenancy is sold by the land-owner has been dispossessed of such land by a pre-emptor in execution of a decree for pre-emption or otherwise the tenant so dispossessed shall in the prescribed manner have the option either to purchase the land from the 8pre-emptor on payment the by him to an Assistant Collector of the first grade having jurisdiction within a period of one year from the commencement of the Punjab Security of Land Tenures (Amendment) Ordinance, 1958. .

(3) An application received under sub-section (2) shall be disposed of by the Assistant Collector of the first grade in the manner laid down in sub-section (2) of section 10.

¹New section 17-A and 178-B, inserted by Punjab Act No. 4 of 1959, section 3.

17-B. Certain Mortgages to be deemed as tenants under the Act - (1) Where, after the commencement of this Act, land comprising the tenancy of a tenant is mortgaged to him with possession by the land-owner and such land is subsequently redeemed by the land owner, the tenant shall, notwithstanding such redemption or any other law for the time being in force be deemed to be the tenant of the land-owner in respect of such land on the same terms and conditions on which it was held by him immediately before the execution of the mortgage as if the mortgage had never been executed.

(2) Where a tenant referred to in sub-section (1) has been dispossessed by the land owner in execution of a decree of order of redemption, he shall be entitled to be restored to his tenancy in the prescribed manner on the same terms and conditions on which it was held by him immediately before the execution of the mortgage on an application made by him to an Assistant Collector of the first grade having jurisdiction within a period of one year from the commencement of the Punjab Security of Land Tenures (Amendment) Ordinance, 1958.

(3) An application received under sub-section (20 shall be disposed of by the Assistant Collector of the first grade in the manner laid down in sub-section (2) of section 10]

18. Rights of certain tenants to purchase land - (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any law, usage or contract, a tenant of a land-owner other than a small land-owner –

(i) Who has been in continuous occupation of the land comprised in his tenancy for¹ [ a minimum period of six years], or

(ii) who has been restored to his tenancy under the provisions of this Act and whose periods of continuous occupation of the land comprised in his tenancy immediately before ejectment and immediately after restoration of his tenancy together ¹[ amounts to six years or more], or

(iii) who was ejected from his tenancy after the 14^th day of August,1947 , and before the commencement of this Act, and who was in continuous occupation of the land, comprised in his tenancy for a period, ²[of six years or more immediately before his ejectment],

Shall be entitled to purchase from the land owner the land so held by him but not included in the reserved area of the land-owner in the case of tenant falling within clause (I) or clause (ii) at any time, and in the case of tenant falling within clause (iii) within a period of one year from the date of commencement of this Act:

Provided that no tenant referred to in this sub- section shall be entitled to exercise any such right in respect of the land or any portion thereof if he had sublet the land or the portion, as the case may be, to any other person during any period of his continuous occupation unless during that period the tenant was suffering from a legal disability or physical infirmity, or if a woman, was a widow or was unmarried :

Provided further that if the land intended to be purchased is held by another tenant who is entitled to pre-empt the sale under the next preceding section, and who is not accepted by the purchasing tenant, the tenant in actual occupation shall have the right to preempt the sale.

(2) A tenant desirous of purchasing land under sub-section (10 shall make an application in writing to an Assistant Collector of First Grade having jurisdiction over the land concerned. [*³ * ] and the Assistant Collector ,after giving notice to the land –owner and to all other persons interested in the land and after making such inquiry as he thinks fit, shall ¹[determine] the value of the land which shall be the average of the prices obtaining for similar land in the locality during 10 years immediately proceeding the date on which the application is made.

²(3) The purchase price shall be three-fourths of the value of land as so determined.

(4) (a) The tenant shall be competent to pay the purchase price either in a lump sum or in six-monthly instalments not exceeding ten in the manner prescribed.

(b) On the purchase price or the first instalment thereof, as the case may be, being deposited, the tenant shall be deemed to have become the owner of the land, and the Assistant Collector shall, where the tenant is not already in possession and subject to the provisions of the Punjab Tenancy Act (XVI of 1887) put him in possession thereof.

(c) If a default is committed in the payment of any of the instalments, the entire outstanding balance shall, on application by the person entitled to receive it, be recoverable as arrears of land revenue.]

¹Substituted by Punjab Act 11 of 1955, for the words “exceed twelve years”.

²Substituted by Punjab Act 11 of 1955 for “exceeding twelve years on the date of his ejectment”.

³The words “for determining the value of such land”, omitted by Punjab Act 11 of 1955.

(5) If the land is subject to a mortgage at the time of the purchase, the land shall pass to the tenant unencumbered by the mortgage, but the mortgage debt shall be a charge on the purchase money.

(6) If there is no such charge as aforesaid the Assistant Collector shall subject to any directions which h (he may receive from any court pay the purchase money to the land owner.

(7) If there is such a charge, the Assistant Collector shall, subject as aforesaid, apply in the discharge of the mortgage debts so much of the purchase money as is required for that purpose and pay the balance if any to the landowner or retain the purchase money pending the decision of a civil court as to the person or persons entitled thereto.

¹Substituted for the words “fix” by Punjab Act 11 of 1955.

²Sub-section (3) (4) substituted by Punjab Act 11 of 1955.

19 Sections 17 and 18 not to apply to certain property and tenants - Nothing contained in section 17 or section 18 shall affect any land which is evacuee property, as defined in the Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1950 (XXXI of 1950 ) ¹[ * * * ] or any other land which may at any time be acquired by the Central Government for resettlement of displaced persons.

²[19-A]. Bar of future acquisition of land in excess of permissible area - (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any law, custom, usage, contract or agreement from and after, the commencement of the Punjab Security of Land Tenures ( Amendment ) Ordinance, 1958 ,no person , whether is landowner ,or tenant, shall acquire or possess by transfer ,exchange, lease, agreement or settlement any land, which with or without the land already owned or held by him, shall in the aggregate exceed the permissible area :

Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to land belonging to registered co-operative societies formed for purposes of co-operative firming if the land owned by in individual member of the society does not exceed the permissible area.

(2) Any transfer, exchange, lease, agreement or settlement made in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) shall be null and void.

19-B. Future acquisition of land by inheritance in excess of permissible area - (1)³ [Subject to the provisions of section 10-A, if after the commencement of this Act, any person, whether as land owner or tenant, acquires by inheritance or by bequest or gift from a person to whom he is an heir any land ,or if after the commencement of this Act and before the 30^th July,. 1958, any person has acquired by transfer ,exchange, lease, agreement or settlement and land of if after such commencement , any person acquires in any other manner any land which, with or without the lands already owned or held by him, exceeds in the aggregate the permissible area, then he shall within the period prescribed , furnish to the collector , a return in the prescribed form and manner giving the particulars of all lands and selecting the land not exceeding in the aggregate the permissible area which he desires to retain, and if the land of such person is situated in more than one patwar circle he shall also furnish a declaration required by section 5-A.

¹The words “at the commencement of this Act” omitted by Punjab Act No. 32 of 1959,section 4.

²New section 19A, 19B, 19C, and 19D, inserted by Punjab Act No. 4 of 1959,section 4

³Substituted for the words” if after the commencement of this Act, any person, whether as land owner or tenant, acquired by inheritance or bequest or gift from a person to whom he is an heir any ;and or if after the commencement of this Act and before the 30^th July,1958, any person has acquired by transfer, exchange lease, agreement or settlement any land” by Punjab Act No. 14 of 1962, section 6 with effect from the 30^th July, 1958,-- vide section 1 (2).

(2) If he fails to furnish the return and select his land within the prescribed period, then the Collector may in respect of him obtain the information required to be shown in the return through such agency as he may deem fit ¹[and select the land for him in the manner specified in sub-section (2) of section 5-B].

(3) If such person fails to furnish the declaration , the provisions of section 5-C shall apply.

(4) The excess land of such person shall be at the disposal of the State Government for utilization as surplus area under clause (a) of section 10-A or for such other purpose as the State Government may by notification direct.

19(C). Power to cause delivery of possession of surplus area - (1) The Collector may from time to time by order in writing direct the land-owner or the tenant to deliver possession of the land in his surplus area to the person resettled on such land by the State Government or any officer empowered by it within ten days of the service of the order on him.

(2) If the landowner or the tenant refuses or fails without reasonable cause to comply with an order made under sub-section (1), the Collector may cause the possession of the land in the surplus area to be delivered to the person resettled on it and may for that purpose use such force as may be necessary.

19-D. Exemption of certain land - The provisions of this Act shall not apply to lands granted to any members of the Armed Forces of the Union for gallantry.]

¹Added by Punjab Act No. 14 of 1962 , with effect from the 30^th July, 1958,-- vide section 6 (2) and 1 (2).

¹[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^th of January,1950, to any member of the Armed Forces , whether maintained by the Central Government or by any Indian State, then, so long as such land or, any portion thereof, as the case may be ,has not passed from the original grantee into more than three successive hands by inheritance or bequest ,and is held by grantee, or any such hands, such land or portion, as the case may be shall not be taken into account 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 such land or portion has passed into more than three such hands and the person holding such land or portion, immediately before the 3^rd August, 1967,is a person to whom it has passed by inheritance or bequest, the exemption under this section shall apply, to such land or portion thereof, as the case may be during the life-time of such person .

²[19-E Land owned by Hindu undivided family to be deemed land of one land-owner - [ Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in any other law for the time being in force –

³(a) Where, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a land owner 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 land-owner 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 land-owner in his 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 section 10-A and 16.

Explanation – In this section, the expression “descendant” includes an adopted son.

¹Inserted by Punjab Act No. 12 of 1968, section 2 and shall be deemed always to have been inserted.

²Inserted by Punjab Act No. 14 of 1962, with effect from the 15^th April, 1953,- vide section 7 and 1 (2).

³Section 11 of Punjab Act No. 14 of 1962,,reads as follows:-

“11. Notwithstanding any contained in this Act or the rules made thereunder or in any other law for the time being in force or in any judgment, degree or order of any court or authority:-

(a) Where the surplus area in respect of the land owned by a Hindu undivided family referred to in clause (a) of section 19-A of the principal Act, has been determined under that Act at any time before the commencement of this Act by any authority competent to determine such area. Whether by ignoring the partition of any such land made after the commencement of the principal Actor otherwise, such determination shall be valid and shall be deemed always to have been valid and shall not be questioned on the ground that the descendants of the land-owners constituting with him the Hindu undivided family were land owners in their own right in respect of their shares in such land or on the ground that the partition had been ignored.

(b) Where an order under sub-section (2) of section 5-B or sub-section (1) of section 5-C, in respect of the surplus area of any person,, has been passed by a revenue officer exercising the powers of a Collector purporting to act as the prescribed authority such order shall be valid and shall be deemed always to have been valid and shall not be questioned on the ground that it was not passed by the prescribed authority.”

19-F. For the removal of doubts it is hereby declared;-

(a) that the State Government or nay 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 10-A of a land-owner immediately before the commencement of this Act; and

(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 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 acquisition .

20. Restrictions on tenants - Nothing contained in this Act shall entitle a tenant to purchase land in excess of the permissible area, including the land which he may already own.

21. Saving of tenants and lessees under Government - ¹ [(1)] Nothing contained in this Act, shall affect any land held by a tenant or lessee under Government ,or local bodies in the State, or any un-allotted evacuee land.

¹[(2)] The Provisions of sections 9,9-A , and 18 shall not apply to lands leased out by the Punjab State Co-operative Land Mortgage Bank Limited established under the Punjab Co-operative Land Mortgage Banks Act,1957].

²[ 21- A Power to remove difficulties by modifications 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 before³( * * * * ) the Legislature during the session next following after the making of such order, and unless the said order is approved by ³ [ * * * * * ] the Legislature with or without modification, it shall cease to have effect]

⁴[22. Procedure for ejectment - Any dispute relating to rent payable by a tenant, or any objection relating to the permissible are, not otherwise expressly provided for in this Act. shall be determined in a summary manner as provided for in section 14-A provided that the order of the Commissioner, in appeal or revision in the ordinary course, shall be final .

¹Section 21 renumbered as sub-section (12) 0f that section and after sub-section (1) so renumbered a new sub-section (2) added by Punjab Act No. 14 of 1962 section 8.

²New section 21-A, added by Punjab Act 11 of 1955.

³The Words “both the Houses of” omitted by the Adaptation of Punjab Laws Order, 1970.

⁴Substituted by Punjab Act 11 of 1955.

23. Abrogation of pending decrees, orders and notices - No decree or order of any court or authority and no notice of ejectment shall be valid save to the extent to which it is consistent with the provisions of this Act.

24. Appeal, review and revision - The Provisions in regard to appeal, review and revision under this Act, shall, so far as may be, be the same as provided in section 80,81,82,83 and 84 of the Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887 (Act XVI of 1887 ].

¹[24-A Power to separate share of land-owners in joint lands - (1) where a land-owner owns land jointly with other land-owners and his share of such land or part thereof, as ascertained from the record of rights, has been or is to be declared as surplus, area, the officer competent to declare such area, or, where such area has been declared, the officer competent to utilise it, may on his own motion, after summary enquiry and affording to the person interest in such land an opportunity of being heard., separate his share of such land or part thereof in the land owned by him jointly with other land-owners.

(2) Where, after the declaration of the surplus area of any person and before the utilisation thereof, his land has been subjected to the process of consolidation the officers referred to in sub-section (1) shall be competent to separate the surplus area of such person out of the area of land obtained by him after consolidation ]

25. Exclusion of courts and authorities - Except in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the validity of any proceedings or order taken or made under this Act shall not be called in question in any court or before any other authority.

26. Indemnity - No suit or other legal proceedings shall lie against any authority in respect of anything done in good faith in pursuance of the provisions of this Act.

27. The State Government may be notification in the Official Gazette make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

¹New section 24A inserted by Punjab Act 14 of 1962, section 9.

28. Repeal and savings - The Punjab Tenants ( Security of Tenure ) Act, 1950 (Act XII of 1950), and the Punjab Tenants (Security of Tenures ) Amendment Act, 1951 ( President’s Act V of 1951 ), are hereby repealed but, not with standing such repeal and notwithstanding the expiry of the Prevention of Ejectment ( Temporary Powers) Ordinance , 1952 anything done or any action in the exercise of any power conferred by or under the said Acts or the said Ordinance to the Extent of its being consistent with the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed to have been done or taken in exercise of the powers conferred by or under this Act, as if this Act was in force on the day on which such thing was done or action taken.

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