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Ins. by section 3 (a) of U.P. Act No. 30 of 1991. [The Uttar Pradesh Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1953] [Section 3] [(2-AA) "Consolidation Committee means a committee to be constituted in the 121 manner prescribed for the purposes of the Act;]1 [(2- B) "Consolidation Lekhpal" means a person appointed as such by the State Government to perform the duties of a Consolidation Lekhpal under this Act or the rules made thereunder and shall, in areas under consolidation operations, include a Lekhpal appointed under the U. P. Land Revenue Act, 1901 ;]2 [(3) "Consolidation Officer" means a person appointed as such by the State Government to exercise the powers and perform, the duties of a Consolidation Officer under this Act or the rules made thereunder (and shall include a Rectangulation Officer;)4]3 [(3-A)"Consolidator means a person appointed as such by the State Government to exercise the powers and perform the duties of a consolidator under the Act or the rules made thereunder]6, rand shall include a Rectangulator and also, in areas under consolidation operations, the Supervisor Kanungo appointed under the U. P. band Revenue Act, 1901 for that area ;]5 [(3-B) "Consolidation scheme" means the scheme of consolidation in a unit ;]7 [(4) "Director of Consolidation" means the person appointed as such by the State Government to exercise the powers and perform the duties of the Director of Consolidation tinder this Act or the rules made thereunder and shall include an additional Director of Consolidation and a Joint Director of Consolidation;]8 [(4-A) "Deputy Director of Consolidation" means a person appointed as such by the State Government to exercise such powers and perform such duties of the Director of Consolidation as may be delegated to him by the State Government and shall include a District Deputy Director of Consolidation and Assistant Director of Consolidation; (4-B) "District Deputy Director of Consolidation" means a person who is for the time being the Collector of the District; (4-C) "Holding" means parcel or parcels of land held under one tenure by a tenure- holder singly or jointly with other tenure- holders.]9 (5) "land" means land held or occupied for purposes connected with agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry (including pisciculture and poultry farming) and includes: 1- Subs by section 2 (4) of U.P. Act 38 of 1958. 2- Subs. by section 2 (5) ibid. 3- Add by section 2(6) bid. 4- Ins. by section 2 (3) of U.P. Act 8 of 1963. 5- Subs by section 2 (7) of U.P. Act 38 of 1958. 6- Ins. by section 2 (4) of U.P. Act 8 of 1963. 7- Add. By section 2 (5) ibid. 8- Subs by section 2 (8) of U.P. Act 38 of 1958. 9- Add by section 2 (9) ibid. [The Uttar Pradesh Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1953] [Section 3] (i) the site, being a part of holding of a house or other similar structure; and 122 (ii) trees, wells and other. improvements existing on the plots forming the holding ;]1 (6) "Legal representative" has the meaning assigned to it in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 ; (7) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; [(8) "Publication in the unit" or "publish in the unit” with reference to any document means reading out the document in the unit on a date of which prior notice shall be given by beat of drum, and proclamation by beat of drum, or, in any other customary mode, in the unit of the fact that the document is open to public inspection at any appointed place and time; Provided that where a Consolidation Committee has been constituted for the unit each member of the said Committee shall also be individually informed of the fact of publication;]2 [(8-A) "Rectangulation" means the process of divinding the area of a unit into rectangles and parts of rectangles of convenient size with a view to regulating the allotment of chaks during consolidation; ]3 [(9) "Settlement Officer Consolidation" means a person appointed as such by State Government to exercise the powers and perform the duties of a Settlement Officer, Consolidation under this Act and the rules made thereunder and shall include any Additional Settlement Officer, Consolidation and Assistant Settlement Officer, Consolidation;]4 (10) "State Government" means Government of Uttar Pradesh; [(11) "Tenure-holder" means a [bhumidhar with transferable rights or bhumidhar with non-transferable rights]7 and includes :-- (a) an asami, (b) a Government lessee or Government grantee, or (c) a co-operative farming society satisfying such conditions as may be prescribed;]5 [11-A) "Unit" means village or part thereof, and where the Director of Consolidation so notifies by publication in the official Gazette, two or more villages or parts thereof or which a single scheme of consolidation is to be framed; ]6