Chapter II PROVISIONS RELATING TO TENANTS

1. (1) The State Government may grant land in a colony to any person on such conditions as it thinks fit.
2. (2) The State Government may issue a statement or statements of the conditions on which it is willing to grant land in a colony to tenants.
3. (3) Where such statements of conditions have been issued, the Collector may, subject to the control of the Financial Commissioner, allot land to any person, to be held subject to such statement of conditions issued under sub-section
4. (2) of this section, as the Collector may by written order declare to be applicable to the case.
5. (4) No person shall be deemed to be a tenant or to have any right or title in the land allotted to him until such a written order has been passed and he has taken possession of the land with the permission of the Collector.

Legal effect of statement of conditions Subject to the provisions of this Act, the grant of any tenancy in accordance with any statements of conditions which have been or may hereafter be issued by the State Government under the Government Tenants (Punjab) Act, 1893, or under this Act shall be deemed to be transfer of a land within the meaning of the Government Grants Act, 1895, and shall be governed by the provisions of the said Act.

Any condition included in any statement of conditions which imposes an obligation of residence shall not be deemed to have been infringed by reason only of the temporary absence of a tenant who has established a permanent residence in the estate in which his holding is situated.

Where in any statement of conditions issued before the commencement of this Act reference is made to any register prescribed under the Government Tenants (Punjab) Act, 1893, then the record-of rights or the annual record shall, so far as may be, be deemed to be such a register.

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