Punjab Colonization of Government Lands (Punjab) Act 1912
Section 14.Position of tenants holding hitherto under Act, III of 1893
Any person who at any time before the commencement of this Act was a tenant from 1[Government] of land to which the Government Tenants (Punjab) Act,1893 applied and for which a statement of conditions was issued under that Act, shall notwithstanding any previous agreement or anything contained in the 3Punjab Tenancy Act,1887, or any other enactment now in force, of which he is tenant in accordance with such statement of conditions :
Provided that unless such tenant shall, by deed executed and registered within twelve months from the date on which this Act comes into force, declare that the succession to his tenancy shall be in accordance with the statement of conditions applicable thereto the succession to his tenancy shall be regulated by the provision of sections 20,21 and 23 of this Act.
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1Substituted for the word “Crown” by the Adaptation of Laws Order 1950.
2Unrepealed Central Acts, Vol. III
3See Volume I.
