( 1) When an application under . Section 7 is received by the Collector, he shall issue in the manner, her~inafter provided a notice in writing calling upon all persons concerned to show cause, why an order to put the Panchayat in possession of the land or other immovable property vested or deemed to have beE:1n vested in the .
Panchayat u~der the Act, should not be made.
(2) The notice shall :-- .
(a) specify the land or other immovable property in respect of which an order is proposed to be.made under sub-rule (i) ;
(b) specify the grounds on which the ·order to put the Panchayat into possession of the land or other immovable property is proposed to be made; and
(c) require all pers.ons concerned, that is to say, all persons who are or may be, in occupation of the land or other immovable property, specified in the notice, to shqw caw~~ .. if any, against the proposed order on or before the date. to be specified in the notice being the · date, not earlier ·than .ten days from the date of issue thereof.·
(3) The Collector ·· shall cause the notice to be affixed on a conspicuous part of the Panchayat Ghar or any other place used as office of the Panchayat and at some conspicuous place of the estate in which the land or other immovable property specified in the notice is situate. · · ' 4((4) If after receipt of an application and before the Panchayat is put in possession of the land or other immovable property in the Shamilat Deh, a question of right 1 title or interest in such land or property is raised by any person and a prima facie case is made out by producing documentary evidence in support thereof; the Collector shall after recording in writing the · reasons to this effect, direct the person raising such question to submit his claim under section 11 of the Act within a period of thirty days ·and the fact of failure of that
1. Substituted vide Pb. Govt. Gaz. L.S. Part 111, dated 19-11 -1976, page 753.
2.Rule 19 omitted vide Pb. Govt. Gaz. L.S. Part Ill , dated 18-7-1967.
3. Substituted vide Pb. Govt. Gaz. Notification No. 132 L.S. Part Ill dated 19-11-1 976 page 753.
4. inse:ted by Notification dated 3-8-1994 iri· Punjab Govt. Gaz. (Extra) L.S. Part Ill.
38 person, if any, for not submitting his claim, shall be recorded in the final order passed under section 7.]
1 (20-A. Damages.-_ ( 1) If any person who is a lessee of any land vested or deemed to have been vested in a Panchayat does not deliver to the Panchayat yacant possession of the land, immediately after the expiry of the period of lease, he shall for the period he fails to do so, be liable to pay damages to the Panchayat equivalent to twenty times, the amount which would have been payable to the Panchayat had the lease of such lan_d continued during that period.
(2) The provisions contained in sub-rule (1) shall be deemed to be one of the tEfrms of each · lease of land granted by the Panchayat after the commencement of the Punjab · Village Common Lands Regulation (3rd Amendment) Rules , 1978].