The Punjab C onsolidation of Land short title Proceedings (Validation) Act, 1972

1iTHE PUNJAB CONSOLIDATION OF LAND PROCEEDINGS (VALIDATION) ACT, 1972 Punjab Act No. 4of 1972 [Received the assent of the President of India on the 17th May, 1972 and was first published for general information in the Pun jab Government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated the 19th May, 1972] AN ACT to provide for the application of the Punjab Consolidation of Land Proceed- [.) ings (Validation) Act, 1957, to those cass also in which the said Act was struck down by the Punjab High Court as invalid and in which either appeals were not filed 10 the Supreme Court or the appeals to the Supreme Court abated. BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Twenty third Year of the Republic of India as follows :— 1. (I) This Act may be called the Punjab C onsolidation of Land short title Proceedings (Validation) Act, 1972. and extent

1. (2) Tt extends to the territories, which immediately before the 1st of

Notwithstanding any, judgement, decree or order of any court, other than the Supreme Court of India, no scheme published under section 19 of the East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation) and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948, between 31st day of December, 1951, and the 1st day of January, 1956, in respect of land of an evacuee forming part of an estate or estates and no subsequent proceedings taken in relation thereto shall be, and shall be deemed ever to have been, invalid merely by reason of the fact that the Punjab Consolidation of Land Proceedings (Validation) Act, 1957, by which the said schemes and proceedings were validated, had been declared by any court, not being the Supreme Court of India, to be invalid.