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Defautiolls.-111 this Act, unless the coutext otherwise rcquircs,- (a) "appointed day" means the day on which this Act comes into force; (b) ''holding'' means any parcel or parcels of Service ]nc:~m land held by a single landholder; (c) "landholder'' means a person holding Service Inam land. b"xplantJtlon.-Wherc any service Inan1 land is in the posses~ ion of a person, othe1 than the pe1son to whom the land \.Yas granted for perJorming services or any of his successors-in-interest, the person in possession of the land shall be deemed to be the landholder for the purposes of this Act; (d) ''land ovvncr" means the owner of Service Inam land; (c) "prescribed•' Jncans prescribed by rules made under th1s Act; (f) "Service Inam land" means land held under a tenure to which some specific service or obJigatton in the shape of personal labour or supply of provisions 1~ attached and includes land held under Viruthi, Oolhiya1n, Karanma or Erayili tenure; (g) "Settlement Officer" means the Settlement Officer appointed under section 15. (h) ''to hold" means to be in actu,\1 possession; (i) the express1ons "ceiling area" an(J' ''family'' shall have the 1neanings respectively assigned to them in the Kcrala Land Reforms Act, 1963 ( 1 of 1964). --lteccived the assent of the Prcs1dent on the 21st day of July, 19UJ and published in the KLrala G41zetlc Extraordinary No. 590 dated the ~.)th July, 1981. 106