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Definitions – In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, - (a) ‘Collector’ means any officer in-charge of a revenue division and includes a Deputy Collector, a Sub-Collector and an Assistant Collector; (b) ‘ Government’ means the State Government; (c ) ‘joint holding’ means a parcel or parcels of land held by two or more persons under a joint patta; (d) ‘joint pattadars’ in relation to a joint holding means the persons who hold land directly under the Government under a joint patta or whose names are registered in the revenue records as joint pattadars or as a joint occupants and who are jointly and severally liable to pay land revenue in respect of such holding ; (e) ‘land’ means a land which is used or is capable of being used for purposes of agriculture, including horticulture, but does not include land used exclusively for non-agricultural purposes; (f) ‘pattadar’ means a person who holds land directly under the Government under a patta or whose name is registered in the revenue records as pattadar or as occupant and who is liable to pay land revenue in respect of such land; (g) ‘prescribed’ means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (h) ‘Tahsildar’ means a Tahsildar within whose jurisdiction the land or a part thereof is situate and includes a Deputy Thasildar in independent charge of a taluk or sub-taluk and any other officer of the Revenue Department not below the rank of Deputy Tahsildhar empowered by the Government to exercise the powers and perform the functions of the Tahsildar under this Act.