Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context- (a) 'Bhoodan' means donation of a parcel of land which is made voluntarily for the purpose of this Act; (b) 'Bhoodan Board' means the Assam Bhoodan Board established under section 6 ; (c) 'Declaration' means a Bhoodan declaration made under section 3 ; (d) 'Government' means the Government of Assam; (e) 'Land' includes all town lands; (f) 'Landless Person' means a person - (i) whose main source of livelihood is agriculture or agricultural labour ; and (ii) who docs not hold any land or holds an uneconomic holding of less than five bighas of land; 2 (g) 'Owner ' means- (i) in relation to land held by a tenant with permanent rights, the tenant ; (ii) in relation to land held under a grant, lease or assignment from Government, the holders, and (iii) in relation to any other land, the person to whom the land belongs ; (h) 'Person interested' in relation to any land means any person claiming any right, title or interest in the land and includes a person having a right of easement affecting such land; (i) 'Prescribed' except where the words "prescribed by Regulations" are used , means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (j) 'Revenue officer' means the Deputy Commissioner and includes the Additional Deputy Commissioner, Sub-divisional Officer or any Officer not below the rank of a Sub-Deputy Collector appointed by the State Government by name or by virtue of his office to discharge any of the functions of a Revenue Officer under this Act; (k) 'Sub-divisional Bhoodan Committee' means the Committee established under section 9 ; (l) 'Village' means a revenue village registered as such in the revenue records ; (m) 'Town land ' means any land within an area declared or deemed to be a Municipality or notified area under the Assam Municipal Act, 1956 (Assam Act XV of 1957) and any other land which the State Government may declare, under the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886 or in accordance with the provision of section 3 of the Land Revenue Re- assessment Act (Assam Act VIII of 1936), to be town land. Donation of land by way of Bhoodan.