Tenants.

The categories of eligible persons shall be as follows, namely: CATEGORY A. - a tenant holding land declared as the tenant's permissible area, under the Punjab Law or the Pepsu Law as the case may be; CATEGORY B.- a tenant who was allotted and given possession of land in the surplus area by the State Government under the Punjab Law or the Pepsu Law and is holding the same; . CATEGORY BB.-a tenant who has been in possession of land since 15th April, 1953 or prior to that date and such land is not included in the permissible area of the landowner. CATEGORY C.-a tenant liable to ejectment as a result of an ejectment order of decree passed against him under clause (i) of sub-section (1) of Section 9 of the Punjab Law or sub-section (1) of Section 7 A of the Pepsu Law; CATEGORY CC. - a tenant on the permissible area of the landowner or have been a tenant of the small landowner, on or before the appointed day and the land under his tenancy falls in the surplus area of the landowner under the Act. . CATEGORY D. - a tenant who has been on the permissible area of the landowner or a tenant of a small landowner since before the appointed day. against whom no ejectment order or decree has been passed under clause (i) of sub-section (1) of Section 9 of the Punjab Law or subsection (1) of Section 7 A of the Pepsu law. CATEGORY E. - an agricultural worker. CATEGORY F. - a tenant, settled on the surplus area by the landowner before Kharif, 1968 who is not (i) the landowner's relation of the category specified in clause (9) of Section 2 of the Punjab Law or the rules made thereunder; or (ii) the landowner's relation of the category specified in the rules made under sub-clause (ii) of clause (g) of Section 2 read with Section 52 of the Pepsu Law; or (iii) the landowner's relation of the category specified in the rules made under clause (s) of Section 3 read with Section 31 of this Act; CATEGORY G. - A landless person; CATEGORY H. - An ex-servicemen; CATEGORY I.-A person owning land measuring less than two hectares of C Category or land of its equivalent value. EXPLANATION 1. The Eligible person, entitled to the allotment of surplus area in the village, falling in any of the Categories E, G, H and I means a person who has been residing in the Village, wherein the surplus area applied for by him is situate, since the 24th Day of January, 1971, and whose annual household income doe~ not exceed two thousand and fourhundred rupees. EXPLANATION II.-No person, falling in category A on Category B whose application for the purchase of land under his tenancy under Section 18 of the Punjab Law or' Section 22 of the Pepsu Law, as the case may be, is pending, shall be entitled land under Pepsu Law, as the case may be, is pending, shall be allotted land under Pepsu Law, as the case may be, is pending, shall be allotted land under this scheme during the pendency of such application.