The Punjab Village Common Lands Regulation Act 1961
Section 3. Lands to which this Act applies
(1) The act shall apply and before the commencement of this Act the Shamilat Law shall be deemed always to have applied to all lands which are shamilat deh as defined in clause(g) of section 2.
(2) Notwithstanding , anything contained in sub section (1) of section 4, where any land vested in the Panchayat under the shamilat law, but such. land has been excluded from Shamilat deh as defined in clause (g) of section 2, all rights, title and interest of the Panchayat in such land shall, as from the commencement of this Act, cease and such rights, title and interest shall be revested in the persons in whom the vested immediately before the commencement of the Shamilat law and the Panchayat shall deliver possession of such land to such person or persons:
Provided that where a Panchayat is unable to deliver possession of any such land on account of its having been sold or utilised for any of its purposes, such land shall not cease but the Panchayat shall, notwithstanding, anything contained in section 10, pay ,to the person or persons entitled to such land ,compensation to be determined in accordance with such principles and in such manner as may be prescribed.