Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
The Act came into force from. 1st March, 1955 vide Notification No. R.1-1/53, dated 17th February, 1955, published in the Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh dated 26th February, 1956, pp. 69. 12 THE HIMACHAL PRADESH LAND REVENUE ACT, 1954 (3) “arrear of land revenue” means land revenue which remains un-paid after the date on which it becomes payable; 1[(4) “defaulter” means a person liable for an arrear of land revenue or any tax in lieu thereof and also includes- (i) a person who is responsible as surety for the payment of the arrear; and (ii) a Numbardar or any other person who has collected the land revenue or any tax in lieu thereof but has not deposited the same into the Government treasury;] (5) “estate” means:- (a) for which a separate record-of-rights has been made, or (b) which has been separately assessed to land revenue, 2[XX] or (c) which the State Government 3[or the Collector making or specially revising the record-of rights under section 33] may, by general rule or special order, declare to be an estate; (6) “gazette” means the official gazette for Himachal Pradesh; (7) “holding” means a share or portion of an estate held by one landowner or jointly by two or more land owners; (8) “incumbrance” means a charge upon or claim against land arising out of private grant or a contract; (9) “land-owner” does not include a tenant or an assignee of land revenue, but does include a person to whom a holding has been transferred, or an estate or holding has been let in farm, under this Act for the recovery of an arrear of land revenue or of a sum recoverable as such an arrear, and every other person not hereinbefore in this clause mentioned who is in possession of an estate or any share or portion thereof, or in the enjoyment of any part of the profits of an estate; (10) “land-revenue” includes assigned land revenue and any sum payable in respect of land, by way of quit-rent or commutation for service, to the State or to a person to whom the State has assigned the right to receive the payment; (11) “legal practitioner” means any legal practitioner within the meaning of the Legal Practitioners Act, 1879 (18 of 1879), 4[and the Advocates Act, 1961];