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Government may by Notification in the 19[Official Gazette] specify and delimit areas each of which shall constitute a local area for the purposes of this Chapter. 18[4. (1) Subject to and in accordance with the provisions of this section the Government shall determine in the manner prescribed for all or any class of land in any local area, the area of a family holding which a family of five persons including the agriculturist himself, cultivates personally according to local conditions and practices and with such assistance as is customary in agricultural operations and which area, will yield annually a produce the value of which, after deducting fifty per cent, therefrom as cost of cultivation, is Rs. 800 according to the price levels prevailing at the time of determination. (2) The Government shall determine the extent of land which shall be regarded as a family holding for each class in each kind of soil in all the local areas which may be determined for 20[the area to which this Act extends] subject to the limits specified below, shall notify in the 19[Official Gazette] the ‗local areas‘ and the extents so determined not later than six months from the date on which the Hyderabad Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Amendment) Act, 1954, comes into force and shall lay a copy of the Notification before the Legislature if it is in session, and if it is not in session when it next reassembles.