The Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1961

(iii) has been partitioned and brought under cultivationby individual landholders before the 26th January,1950 ;(iv) having been acquired before the 26th January, 1950,by a person by purchase or in exchange forproprietory land from aco-sharer in the shamilat dehand is so recorded in the jamabandi or is supportedbyavalid deed;(v) isdescribed inthe revenue records asshamilat, taraf,pattis, pannas, and thola and not used according torevenue records for the benefit of the villagecommunity or apart thereof or for common purposesofthe village;l[(vi) lies outside the abadi deh and was being used asgitwar, bara, manure pit, house or for cottageindustry, immediately before the commencement ofthis Act ;](vii) 2[ ](viii) was shamilat deh, was assessed to land revenueand has been in the individual cultivating possessionof co-sharers not being in excess of their respectiveshares in such shamilat deh on or before the 26thJanuary, 1950;or(ix) is used as a place of worship or for purposessubservient thereto;3[(6) lands reserved for the common purposes of a villageunder section 18 of the .East Punjah Hold ings(Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentaion) Act,1948 (East 'Punjab Act 50 of 1948), the managementand control whereof vests in the Gram Panchayatunder section 23-A ofthe aforesaid Act.Explanation. - Lands entered in the column of ownershipof record of rights as "Jumla Malkan Wa DigarHaqdaran Arazi Hassab Rasad", "Jumla Malkan" or"Mushtarka Malkan" shall be shamilat deh within themeaning ofthis section;](h) "shamilat law"means -- 4(i) in relation to land situated in [part of the territory]which immediately before the 1st November, 1956,1.Substituted by Ilal)'ana Act No.2 of 19812.Omitted byIlal)'ana Act No. 18of 19953.Inserted by I-Ial)'ana Act No.9 of 19924.Substituted for the words "the territoI)''' by the I-Ial)'ana Adaptation ofI;""Urder, 1%8