Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Definition.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) “agriculture” includes preparing land fit for cultivation, cultivation of land, improvement of land including development of sources of irrigation, soil conservation and land development measures, raising and harvesting of crops, horticulture, forestry, cattle breeding, animal husbandry, dairy farming, seed farming, pisciculture, sericulture, bee- keeping, piggery, poultry farming and other activities including transportation of agricultural produce as are generally carried on by agriculturists, dairy-farmers, cattle breeders, poultry farmers and other categories of persons engaged in similar activities and the words ‘agriculture purposes’ shall be construed accordingly; (b) “agriculturist” means a person having an interest in a holding whether as a land owner, mortgagee or pattadar and includes lessee or assignee of Government lands; (c) “co-operative society” means a co-operative society registered or deemed to have been registered under the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969 (20 of 1969); (d) “financial assistance” means assistance rendered by way of loans, advances or otherwise for the purposes of agriculture by a financial institution or Government; (e) “financial institution” means and includes,— * Received the assent of thePresident on the 10th day of December,2005 and published in the Kerala Extraordinary Gazette No.2779 dated 26th December,2005. (i) a banking company as defined in clause (c) of section 5 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (Central Act 10 of 1949); (ii) the State Bank of India constituted under the State Bank of India Act, 1955 (Central Act 23 of 1955); (iii) a subsidiary bank as defined in the State Bank of India (Subsidiary Banks) Act, 1959 (Central Act 38 of 1959); (iv) a corresponding new bank as specified in the First Schedule to the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970 (Central Act 5 of 1970) and the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1980 (Central Act 40 of 1980); (v) the Agricultural Finance Corporation Limited a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 (Central Act 1 of 1956); (vi) the Regional Rural Bank established under the Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976 (Central Act 21 of 1976); (vii) the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development established under the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Act, 1981 (Central Act 61 of 1981); (viii) the Kerala State Co-operative Bank or any other Co-operative Society; (ix) the Kerala Agro Industries Corporation; (x) the Kerala State Khadi and Village Industries Board; and (xi) any other financial institution which may be notified in this behalf by the State Government; (f) “holding” means a parcel or parcels of land held by an individual otherwise than as an encroacher; (g) “Kisan Pass Book” means the Kisan Pass Book issued under section 6, containing certified extracts from the record of rights maintained under the Kerala Record of Rights Act, 1968 (26 of 1968) or from other revenue records, showing the nature and extent of interest of an agriculturist in his agricultural holding or holding in a revenue estate and other particulars as may be prescribed; (h) “land” means land occupied or has been let for agricultural purposes or for purposes sub-servient to agriculture, or for pasture and includes the sites of buildings and other structure on such land; (i) “notification” means notification in the official Gazette; (j) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under the Act; (k) “public servant” means the public servant as defined in section 21 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Central Act 45 of 1860); (l) “Revenue Officer” means the prescribed officer of the Revenue Department; (m) “Sub Registrar” shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Registration Act, 1908 (Central Act 16 of 1908); (n) the words and expressions used to denote the holder of any right, title or interest shall be deemed to include the predecessors and successors of any right, title or interest of such person; and all the words and expressions used but not defined in this Act, but defined in the Kerala Land Reforms Act, 1963 (1 of 1964) and the Kerala Land Assignment Act, 1960, shall wherever used herein be construed to have the meanings assigned to them by the said Acts.