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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "registered holder" in relation to any land means a person whose name is registered in the Revenue records as the proprietor of the land; [(b) "relinquishment" means, in the case of any land in the possession of a registered holder, the unconditional surrender by the registered holder of all his rights over the land, and, in the case of any land in the possession of a cultivating tenant, the unconditional surrender jointly by the registered holder, the cultivating tenant and the intermediaries, if any, of all their rights over the land;] (c) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act, [(d) the expressions "cultivating tenant" and intermediary shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in [the Kerala Land Reforms Act, 1963 (Act 1 of 1964)].] Substituted by Act 8 of 1963. Prior to substitution it read as under: "(b) "relinquishment" means unconditional surrender of all the rights of a registered holder over the land". Inserted by Act 8 of 1963. Substituted for the words and figures "the Kerala Agrarian Relations Act, 1960 (Act 4 of 1961)" by Act 13 of 1966.