Preamble

ITHE PUNJAB REL1 IOUS PREMISES AND LAND (EVICTION AND RENT RECOVERY) ACT, 1997 (PUNJAB ACT NO. 4 OF 1998) [Received the assent of the Governor of Punjab on the 25th January, 1998, and was first published fir general information in Pnnjab Govern- ment Gazette (Extraordinary). Legislative Supplement dated the 29th January, 1998.] An Act to provide for the eviction of unauthorised occupants from religious premises and for certain incidental matters. BB it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Forty- eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows :- 1. ,(1) This Act may be palled the Punjab Religious Premises and

Short title Land (Eviction and Rent RecoVery) Act, 1997.

and commencement. (2)