(1.) The point which is time and again before the court for consideration is when the property vests under the Haryana Ceiling on Land Holdings Act (for short, the 1972 Act), if there had been no declaration already either under Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act or the Pepsu Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1955. Section 12 is a vesting provision under the 1972 Act. Section 12(1) reads as under:--