Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires :- (a) "Chainman" means one that has care and hold of chain measuring tape, in- strument used to measure, lay out, demarcate land or estate or field or plot in lands and includes for identification of boundaries and all other operations antecedent operated by Surveyor: (b) “Competent authority” in relation to any provision. means any officer ap- pointed by the State Government to be the competent authority for the purpose of that provision: (c) "Director" means the Director of Survey and Land Records, Mizoram and includes such other Officer as may be empowered by Government in this behalf and the word ‘Additional Director' shall be construed accordingly: (d) “Government” means the State Government of Mizorama (e) “land” includes land covered with water or under any forest established or constituted under any law, customs, or practice, agriculture or non-agricultural land, waste or arable land and land under any cultivation or otherwise; (f) “Local authority” means and includes Municipal Board, Village Council, Ad- ministrative Officer and Notified Area Committee, or Village Development Commit- tee, as may be constituted by Government; (g) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made by the Government under this Act; (h) “registered land holder” means any person who lawfully holds any land un- der Government or District Council; (i) “registered land" means any land hold with the land settlement certificate/ pass/permit/periodic patta/Lease granted by competent authority: (j) “State” means the State of Mizoram, and the word State Government shall be construed accordingly; (k) “Survey” includes all operations incidental to the identification, determina- tion, measurement, demarcation and record of any land or boundary or boundaries or any part of a boundary and includes a re-survey; (l) “Survey mark” means any mark or object, erected, made, employed or specified by a Survey Officer to indicate or determine or assist in determining the position or level or any point or points; Definitions - 3 - Ex-52/1994 (m) “Survey Officer” means any Officer appointed by the Government as a Sur- vey Officer under section 3; (n) “Village Assistant” means a Government servant appointed under or em- ployed for the purposes of this Act to each Village or group of villages for the mainte- nance and correction of land records and for such other duties as the State Govern- ment may prescribe.