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Definitions:- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) “Board” means the Krishna, Godavari and Pennar Delta Drainage Board established under section 7 of the Andhra Pradesh (Krishna, Godavari and Pennar Delta Area) Drainage Cess Act, 1985; (b) “Collector” means any officer in-charge of a revenue division and includes a Deputy Collector, a Sub-Collector and an Assistant Collector; (c) “Drainage cess” means the tax leviable and collectable under section 3; (d) “Drainage scheme” means any scheme for the improvement of drains in the non-delta area and for the formation of flood moderating reservoirs in the upland areas across the streams flowing into the non-delta area and includes any scheme relating to the following works in the non-delta area which are owned or controlled by the Government or constructed or maintained by them and not handed over to any person:- (i) channels whether natural or artificial for the drainage of waste or surplus water and escape channels from an irrigation work together with dams, embankments, weirs, sluices, groynes, pumping sets and other works connected with or auxiliary to all such channels; (ii) all works for the protection of lands from floods or from erosion. Explanation:- For the purpose of this clause any part or stage of a scheme shall be deemed to be a scheme; (e) “Government” means the State Government; (f) “land” means wet or dry land; (g) “non-delta area” means the area comprising all the lands other than the lands in the deltas of the Krishna, Godavari and Pennar rivers irrigated whether by flow or lift under the network of canals from any drain; (h) “notification” means a notification published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette and the work “notified” shall be construed accordingly; (i) “owner” in relation to any land, means the person liable to pay the public revenue due on the land and includes a ryot having a permanent right of occupancy within the meaning of the Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Area) Estates Land Act, 1908. Explanation: The expression “person liable to pay the public revenue” in relation to any land in respect of which no public revenue is payable means the person who would have been liable to pay public revenue had it been payable on such land; (j) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (k) “upland area” means any area other than the delta area.