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Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— (a) “agriculture” with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions includes,— (i) horticulture; (ii) the raising of crops (including plantation crops), grass or garden produce; (iii) dairy farming; (iv) poultry farming; (v) breeding of livestock and bees; (vi) grazing; but does not include the cutting of wood only; (b) “Civil Court” means a civil court within the meaning of the Tripura (Courts) Order, 1950, and includes Nyaya Panchayats established under Section 42 of the United Provinces Panchayat Raj Act, 1947, as extended to Tripura, and includes also any court exercising appellate or revisional jurisdiction over civil courts; (c) “Co-operative Society” means a society registered under the provisions of the Tripura Co-operative Societies Act, 1974; (d) “debt” means any liability in cash or in kind secured or unsecured due from a debtor whether payable under a decree or order of any civil court or otherwise and includes mortgage money the payment of which is secured by the usufructuary mortgage of immovable property but does not include— (i) any sum due to the Government, a co-operative society, a local „statutory authority, or the L.I.C. or a bank; Explanation. The word “Bank” means— (a) Banking Company as defined in the Banking Regulation Act, 1949; (b) the State Bank of India constituted under the State Bank of India Act, 1955; (c) a Subsidiary Bank as defined in the State Bank of India (Subsidiary Banks) Act, 1959; (d) a corresponding new bank constituted under the Banking (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970; (e) the Agricultural Re-finance Corporation constituted under the Agricultural Re-finance Corporation Act, 1963; (f) any other banking or financial institution notified by the State Government in the Official Gazette; (ii) land revenue or anything recoverable as an arrear of land revenue; or (iii) liability arising out of breach of trust, or law in respect of wages or remuneration or in respect of maintenance of any rent due, or in respect of any property let out to a debtor; 1 Published in the Tripura Gazette, Extraordinary, Part III, No. 135, dated 14-7-1980. (e) “debtor” means an individual or an undivided Hindu family who has borrowed or incurred any debt and belongs to any of the following categories, namely: (i) marginal farmer, (ii) landless labourer, (iii) tribal jhumia, and (iv) rural artisan; (f) “farmer” means a person who is engaged in agriculture; (g) “landless labourer” means a person who does not hold any agricultural land and whose principal means of livelihood is manual labour on agricultural land; (h) “marginal farmer” in relation of a person not belonging to Scheduled Tribe means a farmer who owns or cultivates as share cropper land measuring not more than one hectare of nal or lunga or two hectares of other agricultural land and in relation of a person belonging to a Scheduled Tribe means a farmer who owns or cultivates as share cropper land measuring not more than two hectares of nal or lunga or four hectares of other agricultural land; (i) “Official Gazette” means the Tripura Gazette; (j) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (k) “rural artisan” means a person who does not hold any agricultural land and whose principal means of livelihood is production or repair of traditional tools, implements and other articles or things used for agriculture or purposes ancillary thereto, and also a person who normally earns his livelihood by practising a craft either by his own labour or by the labour or members of his family in the rural areas and whose animal income does not exceed rupees two thousand four hundred per annum; (l)”share cropper” means a person who under the system generally known as adhi, barga, bhag or any other term cultivates the land of any person on condition of delivering a share of the produce of such land to that person; (m) “Tribal Jhumia” means a landless tribal agriculturist who lives mainly on jhuming (shifting cultivation). CHAPTER II RELIEF FROM INDEBTEDNESS