Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Act came into force from 23rd April, 1994 vide Notification No. RDPR.III (Leg-I) 5/93 dated 23rd April, 1994, published in the Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh (Extra-ordinary), dated 23rd April, 1994, pp. 985-986. 14 THE HIMACHAL PRADESH PANCHAYATI RAJ ACT, 1994 (i) double the land revenue for the time being assessed on any land, whether the assessment is leviable or not; or (ii) where the land revenue has been permanently assessed, or has been wholly or in part compounded or redeemed, double the amount which, but for such permanent assessment, composition or redemption, would have been leviable; or (iii) where no land revenue has been assessed, double the amount which, would have been assessed if the average village rate had been applied: Provided that, in any tract in which, under the settlement for the time being in force, the improvement of the land due to canal irrigation has been excluded from account in assessing the land revenue and rate has been imposed in respect of such improvement, that rate shall be added to the land revenue for the purpose of computing the annual value: (2) “backward classes” means such classes of citizens other than Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as may be identified and notified for the purposes of reservation for appointments or posts in the services under the State Government; (3) “block” means such area in a district as may be declared by the Government by notification to be a block; (4) “building” means any shop, house, out-house, hut, shed, stable, whether used for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise and whether of stone, concrete, bricks masonry, wood, mud, thatch, metal or any other material whatever and includes a wall; (5) “bye-laws” means bye-laws made by a Panchayat under this Act and includes model bye-laws framed by the State Government under section 188; (6) “case” means ‘criminal proceedings’ in respect of an offence triable by a Gram Panchayat; 1[(6-A). “cattle” means domestic animals and includes elephants, camels, buffaloes, cows, oxen, horses, mares, geldings, ponnies, colts, fillies, mules, asses, pigs, rams, ewes, sheep, lambs, goats and kids;] (7) “collector”, “Magistrate” or “Sub-Judge” with reference to a “Gram Sabha” or a “Gram Panchayat” means a Collector, a Judicial Magistrate or a Sub Judge of the