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 Government may declare to be scheduled tenancies under this section.