Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.116, Revenue (Assin.I) Department, dated 01.06.2016. Short title, extent and commencement. Definitions. 2 [Act No. XL of 1956] (c) „Consolidation Officer‟ means an officer appointed as such under section 15 by the Government and includes any person authorised by the Government to perform all or any of the functions of the Consolidation Officer under this Act; (d) „Co-operative Society‟ means a co-operative society registered or deemed to be registered under 3[the Andhra Pradesh (Telangana Area) Co-operative Societies Act, 1952]; (e) „Fragment‟ means a plot of land of less extent than the appropriate standard area determined under this Act: Provided that no plot of land shall be deemed to be a fragment by reason of any diminution in its area by diluvium; (f) „land‟ means agricultural land whether alienated or unalienated; (g) „local area‟ means any area notified as such in the Official Gazette under section 3; (h) „owner‟ means a person who has permanent and heritable rights of possession of land, and when unalienated land has been mortgaged, owner means the mortgagor; (i) „prescribed‟ means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (j) „standard area‟ in respect of any class of land means the area which the Government may from time to time determine under section 5 as the minimum area necessary for profitable cultivation in any particular local