Application of the Act

This Act shall, unless the [State] Government otherwise directs, apply to land to which the provisions of the Government Tenants (Punjab) Act, 1893, have been applied and to any other land to which the [State] Government may by notification in the official Gazette apply it and which at the time of the notification was the property of the [State Government]: Provided that [unless the [State] Government by general or special order otherwise directs] nothing in sections 20, 21, 22 and 23, or in the proviso to section 14, of this Act, shall apply to any class of tenancies created hereafter which the [State]