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Punjab Land Revenue (Special Assessments) Amendment and Validation Act, 1963

Punjab Act No. 17 of 1963

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Received the assent of the Governor of Punjab on April 19, 1963 and was published in the Punjab Gazette (Extra.), Legislative Supplement, Part I, dated April 13, 1963/Vaisakha 3, 1885 Saka.

An Act to amend the Punjab Land Revenue (Special Assessments) Act, 1955 and to validate certain special assessments levied thereunder.

Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Punjab in the Fourteenth year of the Republic of India as follows :

  1. Short title.- This Act may be called the Punjab Land Revenue (Special Assessments) Amendment and Validation Act, 1963.
  2. Amendment of Schedule, Act 6 of 1956.- In the Schedule to the Punjab Land Revenue (Special Assessment) Act, 1955, -

(a) in clauses 2 and 3, after the words "District Boards", the words "or Zila Parishads" shall be added; and

(b) the Note appearing at the end shall be numbered as "Note I", and after "Note I" as so numbered, the following "Note II" shall be added, namely:-

"Note II. - In relation to the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in the State of Patiala and East Punjab States Union the lands situated in the limits of District Boards, shall mean the lands situated outside the limits of the municipalities and notified area committees."

  1. Validation.- Notwithstanding anything contained in the Punjab Land Revenue (Special Assessments) Act, 1955, or in any other law for the time being in force or in any judgment, decree or order of any court or other authority, where, at any time after the 15th day of May, 1958, and before the commencement of the Punjab Land Revenue (Special Assessment) Amendment and Validation Act, 1963, any special assessment has been made in respect of the lands, situated outside the limits of municipalities and notified are acommittees in the territories which immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in the State of Patiala and East Punjab States Union, such special assessment shall be, and shall be deemed always to have been, valid and shall not be questioned on the ground that such lands were not the lands situated in the limits of District Boards or that no District Boards were established in the said territories.