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(11) “flood embankment” means any embankment constructed or maintained by an Appropriate Auhtority in connection with any system of irrigation or reclamation works for the protection of lands from inundation or which may be declared by the Appropriate Auhtority to be maintained in connection with any such system, and includes all groins, spurs, dams and other protective works connected with such embankments ; (12) “holder”, in relation to land, means the person who is lawfully in actual possession of land as owner or tenant and includes a Govern- ment lessee ; (13) “irrigation agreement” has the meaning assigned to it by section 61 ; (14) “land under the irrigable command of a canal” has the meaning assigned to it by section 3 ; (15) “occupant” means a holder in actual possession of unalienated land, other than a tenant or Government lessee; provided that, where a holder in actual possession is a tenant, the land holder or the superior landlord, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be occupant ; (16) “occupier” in relation to land, means any person holding or professing to hold the right to cultivate such land for the time being ; (17) “outlet” means an opening of a capacity not exceeding 30 litres per second to serve a block of land of approximately 40 hectares and which is constructed by the Appropriate Auhtority in a canal through which water is delivered into a field-channel or directly on to any land ; (18) “owner” includes every person having a joint interest in the ownership of the thing specified, and all rights and obligations which attach to an owner under the provisions of this Act shall attach jointly and severally to every person having such joint interest in the ownership ; (19) “Parishad Officer” means any officer of Zilla Parishad duly appointed with the previous approval of State Government by the Zilla Parishad by an order in writing for all or any of the purposes of this Act specified in the order ; (20) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made by the State Government under this Act ; (21) “Second Class Irrigation Works” means the canals, channels, streams, rivers, wells, tube-wells, artesian wells, pipes, reservoirs, artificial or natural, or bandharas or any part thereof which have been declared under the Bombay Irrigation Act, 1879, to be Second Class Irrigation Works before the commencement of this Act ; (22) “Superior holder” means a land-holder entitled to receive rent or land revenue from other land-holders (called “Inferior holders”) whether he is accountable or not for such rent or land revenue, or any part thereof, to the State Government : Provided that, where land has been granted free of rent or revenue, subject to the right of resumption in certain specified contingencies by a holder of alienated land whose name is authorisedly entered as such in the land records, such holder shall, with reference to the grantee, be deemed to the superior holder of land so granted by him, and the grantee shall, with reference to the grantor be deemed to be the inferior holder of such land ; (23) the expression “supply of water” with its grammetical variations includes the expression “water made available from any canal” with its grammatical variations ; 1976 : Mah. XXXVIII] Maharashtra Irrigation Act, 1976 3 Bom. VII of