(1)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law for the time being in force or in any agreement, instrument, custom or usage or any decree or order of any court or other authority, all rights, title and interests whatever in the land,----
(a) which is included in the shamilat deh of any village and which has not vested in a panchayat under the shamilat law shall, at the commencement of this Act, vest in panchayat constituted for such village, vests in the 1 Substituted by Haryana Ordinance No.5 of 2024 dated 16.08.2024 and Haryana Act 19 of 2024 dated
12.12.2024.
2 Added by Haryana Ordinance No.5 of 2024 dated 16.08.2024 and Haryana Act 19 of 2024 dated
12.12.2024.
3 Substituted by Haryana Act 5 of 2025 dated 01.04.2025.
Vesting of rights in panchayats and nonproprietors.
8 panchayat on such date as a panchayat having jurisdiction over that village is constituted;
(b) which is situated within or outside the abadi deh of a village and which is under the house owned by a non-proprietor, shall on the commencement of the shamilat law, be deemed to have been vested in such non-proprietor.
(2) Any land which is vested in a panchayat under the shamilat law shall be deemed to have been vested in the panchayat under this Act.
(3) Nothing contained in clause (a) of sub-section (1) and in sub-section (2) shall affect or shall be deemed ever to have affected the—
(i) existing rights, title or interest of persons who though not entered as occupancy tenants in the revenue records are accorded a similar status by custom or otherwise, such as Dholidars, Bhondedars, Butimars, Basikhuopahus, Saunjidars, Muqararidars;
1[(ii) rights of persons who were in cultivating possession of shamilat deh on the date of the commencement of the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1953, or the Pepsu Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1954, and were in such cultivating possession for more than twelve years on such commencement without payment of rent or by payment of charges not exceeding the land revenue and cesses payable thereon;]
(iii) rights of a mortgagee to whom such land is mortgaged with possession before the 26th January, 1950.