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In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,- (a) "Court of Wards" means the "Court of Wards" Bengal Act under the Court of Wards Act, 1879 (as amended by IX of 1879. Assam Acts) ; (b) "Deputy Commissioner" means the Deputy C(m- missioner of the district in which the land in question is situated, and includes any Revenue Officer or Extra Assist- ant Commissioner empowered by the Provincial Govern- ment to dischaq;e any of the functions of the Deputy Com- missioner under any provision of this Act ; (&) "estate" means lands (other than lands settled for special cultivation) included under one entry in any of the general registers of revenue paying and revenue free lands, prepared and maintained under the law for the time being in force by the Deputy Commissioner and Price 2 annas or 2d. 2 including Government revenue free lands not entered in any register and lands prospectively subject to the payment of revenue although no engagement has been entered into for -that amount ; (d) "LakhiraJ estate" means any estate exempt from assessment under any grant made by the previous rulers of the country and confirmed by or on behalf of the Govern- ment; (e) "land-holder" means any person deemed to have Regulation acquired the status of a land-holder under section 8 of the I of 1886• Assam Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886 ; (f) "land-lord" means a person immediately under whom a tenant holds, but does not include the Govern- ment; ( g) "permanently-settled estate " means any estate in the districts of Cachar, Gealpara and Garo Hills included in the decennial settlement of the Lower Provinces of Bengal or permanently settled at any subsequent date under any law for the time being in force ; · (h) "prescribed" means prescribed by the Rules made under this Act ; (i) "private land" means the proprietors' private land Assam Act as described in section 123 of the Goalpara Tenancy Act, 1 of 1929· 1929, and section 143 of the Sylhet Tenancy Act, 1936: Assam Act provided that the proprietor for this purpose includes a II of 1936. ''tenure-holder''; (J) "proprietor" means a person holding in trust or owning for his own benefit any permanently-settled estate or any LakhiraJ estate, or a part of any such estate and includes the heirs and 'successors in interest of a proprietor, and where a proprietor is a minor or of unsound mind or an idiot, his guardian, committee or other legal curator; (k) "raiyat" means a person who has acquired from a proprietor, land-holder or tenure-holder a right to hold land for the purpose of cultivating it by himself or by the mem- bers of his family or by servants or hired labour ; (l) "rent'' means whatever is lawfully payable in money or kind by a tenant on account of the use and occupation of the land held by him ; (m) "Revenue Officer" in any provision of this Act includes any officer whom the Provincial Government may appoint by name or by virtue of his offiGe to discharge any of the functions of a Revenue Officer under that provi· sion ; (n) "tenant'' means a person who holds land under another person and is, or but for a special contract would be, liable to pay rent for that land to that other person, but does not include a person who holds immediately undet' Government ; (o) "tenure" means the interest of a tenure-holder or an under-tenure-holder; (p) "tenure-holder" means a person who has acquired from a proprietor, land-holder or from another tenure-holder right to hold land for the purpose of collec- ting rent or of bringing it wholly or partly under cultivation by ·establishing tenants on it, and includes the successor in interest of a person who has acquired such right and a per- son who holds such right in trust_, and where a tenure-holder is a minor or of unsound mind or an idiot, his guardian, committee or other legal curator ; (q) "under-raiyat" means a person holding land mediately or immediately under a raiyat. ~otifi~ation