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(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise Definition' requires,— (a) "adult" means a person who has completed twenty- one years of age; (b) "allottee" means a person to whom land has been allotted for cultivation by a Gram Parishad under section 17; (o) "bargadar" means a person who under the system generally known as adhi, barga or bhag cultivates the land of another person on condition of delivering a share of the produce of ouch land to that person; (d) "common land" in a village means waste land owned by the State Government and includes land used or reserved for use for the common purposes of the village; "donor" means a person who has donated land by way of graandan under section 4 or section 7; (f) "family" means a set of persons of near relation- ship ,to one another living together in commen- sality and includes the dependants of such persons living with them; (e) 2 The West Bengal Gramdan. dot, 1964. (Chapter 1.--iPreliminary.) [West Ben. Act (g) "gramdan" means a donation of land situated in a village which is made voluntarily for the purposes of this Act; ih) "gramdan village" means a village or a part of a village declared to -be a gramdan village under section 5; (i) "Gram Panohavat" means a Gram Panchayat constituted under the West Bengal Panchayat West Ben. Act, 1957; Aot I of 1957. (j) "Gram Parishad" means a Gram Parishad estab- lished under section 8; (k) "head of family" means the senior male member of a family who manages its affairs; (Z) "land" does not include homestead land; (m) "landless persons" includes a person owning land not exceeding such limit as may be determined by the Gram Pariahad of the gramdan village coneerned; (n) "owner" means— (i) in relation to land held by a tenant with perma- nent or alienable interest in the land, the tenant; . (ii) in relation to land held under a grant, lease or assignment from the State Government, the holder ; and (iii) in relation to any other land, the person to whom the land belongs; (o) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act ; (p) "prescribed authority" means an authority appointed by the State Government, by noti- fication in the Offkcial Gazette, for all or any of the purposes of this Act ; (q) "regulations" means regulations made by a Gram Parishad under this Act; (r) "village" means an area defined, surveyed and recorded as a distinct and separate village in the revenue records of the district in which it is situate. (2) The expression signifying 'residing' in a village or a part of a village means residing ordinarily in such village or such part, and the expression 'resident' shall be construed accordingly. The West Bengal Gramdan. Aet, 1964. 3 XXVII of 11104.1 (Chapter 1.—Prelimnary.—Seetion 3.—Chapter 11.—The Gramdan Village.—Seetion 4.)