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  "title": "PUNJAB LAND PRESERVATION (EXTENSION TO DERA GHAZI KHAN EXCLUDED AREA) REGULATION, 1959",
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  "text": "THE PUNJAB LAND PRESERVATION (EXTENSION TO \r\nDERA GHAZI KHAN EXCLUDED AREA) REGULATION, \r\n1959 \r\n(I of 1959) \r\nCONTENTS \r\n1. Short title, extent and commencement. \r\n2. Extension of the Punjab Act II of 1900 to the Excluded Area. \r\n \r\nTEXT \r\n1\r\nTHE PUNJAB LAND PRESERVATION (\r\n2\r\n[**] EXTENSION TO DERA GHAZI \r\nKHAN EXCLUDED AREA) REGULATION, 1959 \r\n(I of 1959) \r\n[12 September, 1959] \r\nA \r\nRegulation \r\nto extend the provisions of the Punjab Land Preservation Act, 1900, to the Dera \r\nGhazi Khan Excluded Area in the Province of \r\n3\r\n[the Punjab]. \r\nPreamble.– WHEREAS it is expedient to extend the provisions of the Punjab Land \r\nPreservation Act, 1900, to the Dera Ghazi Khan Excluded Area for the purposes of \r\nthe peace and good government thereof; \r\n NOW, THEREFOR E, in pursuance of the Presidential Proclamation of the \r\nseventh day of October, 1958, and in exercise of all powers enabling him in that \r\nbehalf, the Governor of West Pakistan is pleased to make and promulgate the \r\nfollowing Regulation:– \r\n1. Short title, extent and commencement.– (1) This Regulation may be called \r\nthe Punjab Land Preservation (\r\n4\r\n[**] Extension to Dera Ghazi Khan Excluded Area) \r\nRegulation, 1959. \r\n (2) It extends to the Dera Ghazi Khan Excluded Area declared to be an \r\nexcluded area in the Ministry  of States and Frontier Region’s  Notification No. D -\r\n2162-F/50, dated the 17th April, 1950. \r\n (3) It shall come into force at once. \r\n2. Extension of the Punjab Act II of 1900 to the Excluded Area .– The \r\nprovisions of the Punjab Land Preservation Act, 1900, are h ereby extended to the \r\nDera Ghazi Khan Excluded Area. \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n                                                           \r\n1This Regulation (West Pakistan Regulation No. I of 1959) vide Notification No.  Leg.2(1)/59, dated September 12, 1959 , was \r\npromulgated by the Governor of West Pakistan in pursuance of the Presiden tial Proclamation of the seventh day of October, \r\n1958 and published in the Gazette of West Pakistan (Extraordinary), dated September 12, 1959, pp. 809-810. \r\n2Omitted the words “West Pakistan” by virtue of the Punjab Laws (Adaptation) Order, 1974 (1  of 1974) (w.e.f. 14.8.1973), \r\npublished in the Gazette of West Pakistan (Extraordinary), dated November 20, 1974, pp. 1425-A-1425-PP, Article 2(2). \r\n3Substituted for the words “West Pakistan” by virtue of the Order ibid. \r\n4Omitted the words “West Pakistan” by virtue of the Order ibid.",
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