The Punjab Land Revenue (Additional Surcharge) Act, 1960

1960: Pb. Act 38] THE PUNJAB LAND RE VENUE (ADDITIONAL SURCHARGE) AC T, 1960 735 1THE PUNJAB LAND REVENUE (ADDITIONA L SURCHARGE) ACT, 1960. (PUNJAB ACT No. 38 OF 1960). [Received the assent of the Go ernor of Pur jab n the 7th December, 1960 and fi rt pablished for genera! information in the Punjab Gove rnment Gazette (Etra- ordinary) Legislature Supplen ent, of tle 9th Decem- ber, 1960]. An Act to provide for the levy and collection of additional surcharge on land revenue BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Eleventh Year of the Republic of India as follows.- f. (1) This Act may be called the Punjab Land Revenue (Additional Surcharge) Ac t, 1960. Short title and extent. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Punjab. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- Definitions. (a) "additional surcharge' means the en hanced land revenue levied and coflected under section 3; (b) "Land revenue" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (6) of section 3 of the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, but shall not include- (i) a special assessment made under the Punjab Land Revenue (Special Assessment s) Act, 1956 (Punjab Act, No. 6 of 1956); (ii) the surcharge payable under the Punjab Land Revenue (Surcharge) Act 1954 (P unjab Act No. 36 of 1954) ; and (iii) the special charge payable under the Punjab Land Revenue (Special Charges) Act, 1958. (Punjab Act No. 6 of 1958) ; 1. For Statement of Objects and Reasons , see Punjab Government Gazette (Extraordinary), 1960, page 2054. Levy and collection of additional surcharge. Recovery Additional surcharge to be excluded in pay ment of special charges. 736 (c) THE PUNJAB LAND REVENUE [1960: Pb. Act 38 (ADDITIONAL SURCHARGE) ACт, 1950 all other words and expressions used, but not defined in this Act, shall have the same meaning as are assigned to them in the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887 (Punjab Act XVII of 1887.) 3. (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary inthe Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887,for such two succes-sive harvests as may be notified by the State Governmentin this behalf,there shall be levied and collected in respectof the land of every landowner who pays land revenue, an a dditional surcharge thereon at the rate of fifty percentum of the land revenue payable by him under the saidAct. Such a surcharge on any land shall be levied onceonly. (2) The additional surcharge referred to in sub- section (1) shall be in addition to the surcharge, if any,payable by a landowner under the Punjab Land Revenue(Surcharge) Act, 1954 (Punjab Act No. 36 of 1954).4. The additinal surcharge, shall be recoverableas land revenue under the Punjab Land Revenue Act,1887, and the rules made thereunder. 5. For the purposes of payment of the specialcnarge under the provisions of the Punjab Land Revenue(Special Charges) Act, 1958 (Punjab Act No. 9 of1958), the additional surcharge shall not be taken intoconsideration in calculating the land revenue under thatAct.