Section 16:
Savings.
Nothing in this Act shall apply to--
(a) the erection or re-erection of buildings upon land included in the inhabited site of
any village as defined in the revenue records ;
(b) the erection or re-erection of a place of worship or a tomb or cenotaph or of a wall
enclosing a graveyard, place of worship, cenotaph or samadhi on land which is at the
time a notification under sub-section (2) of section 3 is published by the
Chief Commissioner occupied by or for the purposes of such place of worship, tomb,
Samadhi, cenotaph or graveyard ;
(c) excavations (including wells) made in the ordinary course of agricultural
operations ;
(d) the construction of an unmetalled road intended to give access to land solely for
agricultural purposes.