Computation of surplus land

The extent of surplus land, if any, held by any person on the appointed day shall be computed on the basis of the total land held by such person on that day: Provided that the total land so held shall include—

1. (a) where such person holds in addition to the land held by him individually as owner or tenant, a share in the land held by a joint family, an area of land equivalent to his share in the land which such joint family is entitled to hold under section 6,
2. (b) land, if any, transferred or sub-divided by or on behalf of such person in contravention of section 7, and
3. (c) land, if any, transferred or partitioned by such person after the 15th day of January 1959 but before the commencement of this Act and in respect of which no application for a declaration under section 8 was made or any application made under section 8 has been rejected.