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  "title": "PUNJAB TENANCY (VALIDATION AND EXTENSION OF PERIOD FOR PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION) ORDINANCE, 1969",
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  "text": "THE PUNJAB TENANCY (VALIDATION AND EXTENSION \r\nOF PERIOD FOR PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION) \r\nORDINANCE, 1969 \r\n(XXXI of 1969) \r\nCONTENTS \r\n1. Short title and commencement \r\n2. Validation of extension of period of comp ensation under section 114, \r\nAct XVI of 1887 \r\n3. Extension of period for payment of compensation \r\n \r\nTEXT \r\n1\r\nTHE PUNJAB TENANCY (VALIDATION AND EXTENSION OF PERIOD \r\nFOR PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION) ORDINANCE, 1969 \r\n(XXXI of 1969) \r\n[5th November, 1969] \r\nAn \r\nOrdinance \r\nto validate the amendments made in the Punjab Tenancy (Amendment) Rules, 1953, \r\nin respect of extension of the period for payment of compensation by occupancy \r\ntenants and to further extend such period. \r\nPreamble.– WHEREAS the Punjab  Tenancy (Amendment) Rules, 1953, framed \r\nunder sections 114 and 115 of the Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, prescribed a period of \r\ntwo years from the date of issue of the said rules, within which occupancy tenants \r\nwere entitled to pay compensation for acquiring proprietary rights in their tenancies; \r\n AND WHEREAS the said period of two years was extended from time to time, \r\nby amendments made in the said rules, upto 30th June, 1960; \r\n AND WHEREAS  doubts have arisen as to the validity of the said \r\namendments; \r\n AND WHEREAS it is expedient to validate the amendments in the said rules \r\nextending upto 30th June, 1960, the period within which the occupancy tenants were \r\nentitled to pay compensation for acquiring proprietary rights in their tenancies; \r\n AND WHEREAS it is expedie nt to further extend the period for payment of \r\ncompensation by occupancy tenants who failed to do so; \r\n NOW, THEREFORE , in pursuance of the Martial Law Proclamation of 25th \r\nMarch, 1969, read with the Provisional Constitution Order, and in exercise of all \r\npowers enabling him in that behalf, the Governor of West Pakistan is pleased to \r\nmake and promulgate the following Ordinance:– \r\n1. Short title and commencement. – (1) This Ordinance may be called the \r\nPunjab Tenancy (Validation and Extension of Period for Payment of Compensation) \r\nOrdinance, 1969. \r\n (2) It shall come into force at once. \r\n2. Validation of extension of period of compensation under section 114, \r\nAct XVI of 1887. – Notwithstanding anything contained in section 107 of the Punjab \r\nTenancy Act, 1887 (Act XVI of 1887)– \r\n(a) the period for the payment of compensation by occupancy tenants for \r\nacquiring proprietary rights prescribed under the Punjab Tenancy \r\n                                                 \r\n1This Ordinance was promulgated by the Governor of West Pakistan on 31st October, 1969; published in the West Pakistan \r\nGazette (Extraordinary), dated 5th November, 1969, pages 1971 -73; saved by Article 281 of the Interim Constitution of \r\nPakistan (1972); and, validated by the Validation of Laws Act, 1975 (LXIII of 1975). \r\n \r\n(Amendment) Rules, 1953, shall be deemed to have been validly \r\nextended upto 30th June, 1960; and \r\n(b) any comp ensation paid , rights acquired or liabilities incurred by or \r\nbefore the said date in accordance with the said rules, shall be deemed \r\nto have been validly paid, acquired or incurred, as the case may be. \r\n3. Extension of period for payment of compensation. – Notwithstanding \r\nanything contained in section 114 of the Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887 (Act XVI of \r\n1887), and rules 3 and 4 of the Punjab Tenancy (Amendment) Rules, 1953, or any \r\njudgment, decree or order of any Court or other authority , it shall be lawful for an y \r\nperson who occupied land as occupancy tenant at the time of the coming into force \r\nof the Punjab Tenancy (Amendment) Act, 1952 (Punjab Act VII of 1952), but who \r\nfailed to pay compensation to the landlord in accordance with the provisions of the \r\nsaid rules 3 and 4, to acquire proprietary rights in the whole or a portion, as the case \r\nmay be, of the land comprised in his tenancy, on payment of such compensation \r\n2\r\n[on \r\nor before the thirty-first day of December, 1996]\r\n3\r\n[:] \r\n \r\n4\r\n[Provided that when in any legal proce eding it is decided by any Court that \r\nany person has a right of occupancy , such person may pay the compensation within \r\nsix months of the decision of such proceeding or before the 30th July, 1972, \r\nwhichever is later.] \r\n                                                 \r\n2Substituted for the words, brackets, comma and figure “within two years from the date of the Punjab Tenancy (Validation and \r\nExtension of Period for Payment of Compensation) (Amendment) Act, 1987 comes into force”  by the Punjab T enancy \r\n(Validation and Extension of Period for Payment of Compensation) (Amendment) Act, 1992 (XII of 1992),  w.e.f. 10.11.1992, \r\ns.2; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), which were firstly substituted for the words and comma “on or before \r\nthirty-first day of December, 1977” by the Punjab Tenancy (Validation and Extension of Period for Payment of Compensation) \r\n(Amendment) Act , 1987 (IV of 1987), w.e.f. 31.12.1977 , s.2; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary) , dated \r\n8.11.1987, which were secondly substituted for words “within a period of one year from the date of publication of this Ordinance \r\nin the Official Gazette” by the Punjab Tenancy (Validation and Extension of Period for Payment of Compe nsation) \r\n(Amendment) Act, 1977  (III of 1977), w.e.f. 27.12.1976, s.2; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated \r\n14.6.1977, pages 813-814. \r\n3Replaced for the “full -stop” by the Punjab Tenancy (Validation and Extension of Period for Payment of Compensation) \r\n(Amendment) Ordinance, 1972 (I of 1972), w.e.f. 5.11.1969, s.2; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated \r\n24.1.1972, pages 55-56. \r\n4Added by the Punjab Tenancy (Validation and Extension of Period for Payment of Compensation) (Amendment) Ordinance, \r\n1972 (I of 1972), w.e.f. 5.11.1969, s.2; and published in the Punjab Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 24.1.1972, pages 55-56.",
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