Bare ActsThe Himachal Pradesh Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1971

Section 2

Definitions

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Definitions.- In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,- (1) ‘Assistant Consolidation Officer’ means an officer appointed by the State Government to perform the duties of the Assistant Consolidation Officer under this Act; (2) ‘common purpose’ means any purpose in relation to any common need, convenience or benefit of the village and includes the following purposes:- (i) extension of the village abadi; (ii) providing income for the Panchayat of the village concerned for the benefit of the village community ; (iii) village roads and paths, village drains, village wells, ponds or tanks, village water-courses or water-channels, village bus stands and waiting places, manure pits, hada rori, public latrines, cremation and burial grounds, Panchayat ghar, janj ghar, grazing grounds, tanning places, mela grounds, public places of religious or charitable nature; and (iv) schools and playgrounds, dispensaries, hospitals, and institutions of like nature, waterworks or tube wells, whether such schools/ playgrounds, dispensaries,

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