Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Inserted by Act 27 of 1984 w.e.f. 04.05.1984. (f) ―existing law relating to a village office‖ includes any enactment, ordinance, rule, bye-law, regulation, order, notification, firman, hukum, vat hukum or any other instrument or any custom or usage having the force of law, relating to a village office, which may be in force immediately before the appointed date; (g) ―holder of a village office‖ or ―holder‖ means a person having an interest in a village office under an existing law relating to such office: Provided that where any village office has been entered in a register or record under an existing law relating to such village office, as held by the whole body of persons having interest in the village office, the whole of such body shall be deemed to be the holder; (h) ―inferior village office‖ means every village office of lower degree than that of a Patel or Village Accountant; (i) ―notification‖ means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (j) ―officiator‖ means the person actually performing the duties of a village office, whether he be a person having right to perform the duties of such office or a substitute appointed under the existing law relating to such office; (k) ―prescribed‖ means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (l) ―tenancy law‖ means,- (i) in the Mysore Area, the Mysore Tenancy Act, 1952; (ii) in the 1[Bombay Area]1, the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948; (iii) in the 1[Hyderabad Area]1, the Hyderabad Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1950; (iv) in the 1[Madras Area]1, the Madras Cultivating Tenants Protection Act, 1955, and the Madras Cultivating Tenants (Payment of Fair Rent) Act, 1956; (v) in the Coorg District, the Coorg Tenants Act 1957;