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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -- (i) "civil court" includes- (a) any court exercising jurisdiction under the Provincial Insolvency Act, 1920; (b) a Nyaya Panchayat established under the U. P. Panchayat Raj Act, 1947; (c) a court exercising powers under the Provincial Small Causes Courts Act, 1887 ; (ii) "co-operative society" means a society registered or deemed to be registered under the provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Co-operate Societies Act, 1965; (iii) "debt" means an advance in cash or kind, whether decreed or not, and includes any transaction which is in substance a debt; (iv) "landless agricultural labourer" means a person whose main source of livelihood is agricultural labour or cultivation and who, immediately before the commencement of this Act, either held no land or holds land not exceeding 0.40468564 hectares (one acre) in Uttar Pradesh as a bhumidhar, sirdar, asami or Government lessee; (v) "scheduled debtor" means a person ordinarily residing in Uttar Pradesh who is a landless agricultural labourer. Consequences of commencement of this Act