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16 THE HIMACHAL PRADESH PANCHAYATI RAJ ACT, 1994 worship and mess together permanently as shown in the parivar register of the Gram Panchayat;] 2[(13-C) “Financial Commissioner” means the Financial Commissioner 3[(Appeal)] to the Government of Himachal Pradesh;] (14) “Government” or “State Government” means the Government of Himachal Pradesh; (15) “Gram Panchayat” means the Executive Committee of the Gram Sabha established under section 8 of this Act; (16) “Gram Sabha” or “Sabha” means a Gram Sabha established under section 4 of this Act and ‘Sabha area’ means an area declared to be a ‘Sabha area’ under section 3 of this Act; (17) “land” means land assessed to land revenue and includes land whereof the land revenue has been wholly, or in part released, compounded for, redeemed or assigned; (18) “land holder” means any person responsible for the payment of the land revenue, if any, assessed on land and includes the proprietor of land, the land revenue of which has been wholly, or in part, released, compounded for, redeemed or assigned; (19) “land revenue” includes tirni or grazing dues levied for grazing on Government land; 4[(19-A) “Mahila Gram Sabha” means a Mahila Gram Sabha constituted under section 5-B of this Act;] (20) “member” means a member of the Gram Panchayat, Gram Sabha, Panchayat Samiti or Zila Parishad, as the case may be; (21) “municipality” means an institution of self-Government constituted under article 243-Q of the Constitution of India and includes a Cantonment Board set up under the Cantonments Act, 1924( 2 of 1924); 5[(21-A) “near relative” means any person who is related to the office-bearer of the Panchayat which includes father,