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 entered and demarcated in the revenue records or upon sites in a municipal, notified, or town area that are already built up on the date of the issue of the notification under sub-section (2) of section 3 of this Act; (b) the erection or re-erection of a place of worship or a tomb, cenotaph, grave, graveyard, or marghat or of a wall enclosing a place of worship, tomb, cenotaph, grave, graveyard, or marghat on land which is, at the time a notification under sub-section (2) of Section 3 is published by the Provincial Government, occupied by or for the purposes of such place of worship, tomb, cenotaph, grave, graveyard, or marghat; (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.