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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- [(a) "Board" means the Kerala Land Development Board constituted under Section 3;] [(b) "Collector" means the Member-Secretary of the District Planning Committee constituted under the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994 (20 of 1994); (c) "District Committee" means the District Land Development Committee referred under Section 5;] (d) "Executing Officer" means an Officer appointed under Section 13 to execute a scheme; (e) "Inquiring Officer" means an Officer appointed as such by the District Committee; (f) "owner" means any person for the time being receiving or entitled to receive, whether on his own account, or as agent, trustee, guardian manager or receiver for another person the rent or profit derivable from land and includes a tenant, an occupant or mortgagee in possession of land; [(ff) "Padasekharam" means a collection of fields or other areas of lands, with or without a common outer bund, which is suitable for the adoption of a common cultivation programme or common agricultural operations including dewatering and irrigation]; [(fff) "Padasekharam committee" means a committee constituted under Section 7A]; (g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (h) "record of rights" means the record of rights and liabilities prepared under Section 20; (i) "scheme" means any Land Development Scheme prepared or to be prepared under this Act; (j) "work" means any work of public utility constructed, erected or carried out or to be constructed, erected or carried out under any scheme under this Act. Inserted by Act 16 of 2000 G. O. (P) No. 3294/Leg. C1/2000/Law dt 12/05/2000. Substituted by Act 16 of 2000 G. O. (P) No. 3294/Leg. C1/2000/Law dt 12/05/2000. Prior to substitution it read as under: "(b) "Collector" means the Collector of the district and includes any Officer not below the rank of a Tahsildar appointed by the Government to perform all or any of the functions of a Collector under this Act; (c) "District Committee" means the District Land Development Committee constituted under Section 6;" Substituted by Act 16 of 1973, w. e. f. 07/07/1973. Inserted by Act 3 of 1969, w. e. f. 11/02/1969.