Reservation of land by small landowner

Any small landowner, who by virtue of an allotment made after the commencement of this Act under the Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1950 (Act XXXI of 1950), comes to hold more than the permissible area of land, may select out of the entire area held by him as a landowner in the [Union Territory of Chandigarh], a parcel or parcels of land not exceeding in aggregate the permissible area and reserve it by intimating his reservation in the prescribed form and manner, to the patwari of the estate in which the land reserved is situate, or to such other authority as may be prescribed, before the expiry of six months from the date of his obtaining possession of the land so allotted:

Provided that he shall include in his reservation, to the extent of the permissible area, whatever land he had under self-cultivation immediately before the commencement of this Act.