Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -- (1) "agricultural labourer" means a person whose principal means of livelihood is the income he gets as wages for his manual labour on agricultural land; + This Act came into force in the regions known as Puducherry, Karaikal and Yanam in the Union Territory of Puducherry w.e.f 01.12.1974 vide Notification published in the EG. No.150 dt. 28.11.1974. 142 (2) "agricultural land" means any land used for any of the following purposes, namely:- (a) horticulture; (b) the raising of crops, grass or garden produce; (c) grazing; (d) the raising of manure crops; (e) dairy farming; (f) poultry farming; (g) livestock breeding; (h) growing of trees; and (i) includes any land used for any purposes subservient to the above purposes, any forest land, pasture land, plantation, orchard and tope, but (ii) does not include house-site or land used exclusively for non- agricultural purposes; (3) "agriculturist" means a person who cultivates agricultural land by the contribution of his own manual labour or of the manual labour of any member of his family; (4) "authorised officer" means any Gazetted Officer authorised by the Government by notification in the Official Gazette to exercise the powers conferred on, and discharge the duties imposed upon, the authorised officer under this Act, for such area as may be specified in the notification; (5) "Court" means the Court of Subordinate Judge having jurisdiction and if there are more than one such Court, the Court of the Principal Subordinate Judge; (6) "Government" means the Administrator of the Union territory of Puducherry appointed under article 239 of the Constitution; (7) "kudiyiruppu" means the site of any dwelling house or hut occupied, either as tenant or as licensee, by any agriculturist or agricultural labourer and includes such other area adjacent to the dwelling house or hut as may be necessary for the convenient enjoyment of such dwelling house or hut. 143 +[Explanation-I. -- It shall be presumed that any person occupying the kudiyiruppu is an agricultural labourer or an agriculturist, until the contrary is proved. Explanation-II. – For the purpose of determining whether any area adjacent to the dwelling house or hut is necessary for the convenient enjoyment of such dwelling house or hut, the area which the agriculturist or agricultural labourer had been enjoying immediately before the 27th day of March 1972, and such other factors as may be prescribed shall be taken into account]. (8) "person interested", in relation to any kudiyiruppu or superstructure thereon, includes any person claiming, or entitled to claim, an interest in the amount payable on account of the vesting of that kudiyiruppu or superstructure in the occupant of the kudiyiruppu; (9) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; +[ (9-A) "rural area" means any area declared by the Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, to be a rural area having regard to its population, development and such other relevant factors as the circumstances of the case may require]. (10) "Schedule" means the Schedule appended to this Act; (11) "tenant" means any person who has paid or has agreed to pay rent or other consideration for his being allowed by another to enjoy the land of the latter under an agreement, express or implied, and includes his heirs and legal representatives; +[ (11-A) "urban area" means any area other than a rural area]; (12) "vested kudiyiruppu or superstructure" means the kudiyiruppu or the superstructure which has vested absolutely in the occupant of the kudiyiruppu +[under the provisions of this Act]. + Amended by Act 5 of 1983 and shall be deemed to have come into force w.e.f 01.12.1974. 144 Occupant of kudiyiruppu to become owner