State Act

The Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972

5. 1[(1) Every person, who on the appointed day or at any time thereafter, owns or hold land as landowner or mortgagee with possession or tenant or partly in one capacity and partly in another in excess of the permissible area, shall select his permissible area and intimate his selection to the Collector, and where land is situate in more than one district, to the Collectors concerned, through a declaration, to be furnished in such form and manner and within such period, as may be prescribed and if such person has an adult son or adult daughter, he shall also be entitled to select separate permissible area in respect of each such son or daughter, as the case may be, out of the land owned or held by him, subject to the condition that the land so selected together with the land already owned or held by such son or daughter, shall not exceed the permissible area of each such son or daughter: Provided that where land is situated in more than one patwar circle, the declaration shall be supported by an affidavit in the prescribed form.] (2) In making the selection, such a person shall include, firstly, land mortgaged without possession and, secondly, land under self-cultivation on the date of commencement of the period prescribed for furnishing the declaration under sub-section (1), but shall not include area declared surplus under the Punjab law, the Pepsu law or this Act, other than the area which was exempt from utilization by the State Government immediately before such commencement.