State Act
Section 4. Application of the Act.
The Colonization of Govt. Lands (Punjab) Act, 1912
4. This Act shall, unless the 3[State] Government otherwise directs, apply to land to which the provisions of the Government Tenants (Punjab) Act, 1893, have been applied and to any other land to which the 3[State] Government may by notification in the Official Gazette apply it and which at the time of the notification was the property of the 4[State Government] : Provided that 5[unless the 3[State] Government by general or special order otherwise directs] nothing in sections 20, 21, 22 and 23, or in the proviso to section 14, of this Act, shall, * * 5 * * apply 6 * * * * to any class of tenancies created hereafter which the 3[State] Government may declare to be scheduled tenancies under this section.