(1) No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person in respect of anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under or in pursuance of this Act or any rules made thereunder.
(2) No suit or other legal proceeding shall lie against the State Government for any damage caused or likely to be caused or any!injury suffered or likely to be suffered by virtue of any provisions contained in this Act or any rules made thereunder.
49. The amount of any compensation or other sum payable under this Act and the amount of any penalty imposed under this Act may be recovered as an arrear of land revenue. |
50. The State Govciiunent may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direc [that the powers exercisable by it under this Act shall, in such circumstances and under such conditions, if any, as may be specified 1955 : Pepsu Aet 13] TENANCY AND AGRICULTURAL 163 LANDS in the notification, be exercisable also by an officer subordinate to the State Government.
51. *[(1) The provision of this Act shall not apply to—
(a) lands owned by or vested in the State Extmption of Government otherwise than under the provisions of this Act;
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(b) lands vested in the Central Government which have not been transferred to an allottee either on permanent or quasipermanent basis;
(¢) lands belonging to any religious or charitable institution but not to a Mahant, Mohtamim or manager thereof;
(d) lands granted to any member of the Armed Forces of the Union for gallantry;
(e) private lands leased by the Government;
(f) lands belonging to or vested in a Panchayat or a local authority;
(g) nazool lands transferred by the State Government to co- “overative societies formed by persons belonging to Scheduled Castes;
(h) lands to which the Pepsu Bhoodan Yagna Act, 1955 (25 of 1955), applies.
Explanation—For the purposes of clause (e), ‘religious or charitable institution’ means—
(i) a temple;
(#1) a gurdwara;
“iSubstituted by Pepsu Act 15 of 1956.
2Section 51 re-numbered as sub-section (13 of that section by Punjab Acy 16 of 1962, Section 2. .
Exemption of lands granted for gallantry before 26th January,
1950.
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(iii) any other religious place of a public nature; ces
(iv) a wakf as defined in clause (I) of section 3 of the Muslim Wakfs Act, 1954 (Parliament Act 29 of 1954); or {vj any other institution of a public nature the object of which is relief to the poor, education, medical relief or the advancement of any other object of general public utility including religious teaching or worship;
which the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify].
: | *[(2) The provisions of section 7, section 7-A and Chapter IV 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.]
°[51-A. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, where any land is granted for gallantry at any time before the 26th day 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 anv 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 the grantee or any of 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 anv tenant of such land or portion have the right to purchase it under section 22 ;
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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 1Added by Punjsh Act No. 18 of 1962, section 12. ) Inserted and shall be deemed always to have been inserted by Punjab Act 11 of 1968, Section 2. :
1955 : Pepsu Act 13] TENANCY AND AGRICULTURAL 165 LANDS the 3rd of 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. ] Power io make