(a) "agriculture" includes horticulture, arboriculture, pisciculture, piggery, animal, husbandry, poultry and other allied pursuits ;
(b) the words "annual lease" has the meaning assigned to it in the Settlement Rules framed under the Assam Land and Revenue Regulations, 1886 ;
(c) "Collector" means the Deputy Commissioner or any other officer authorised by the State Government to perform the function of a Collector under this Act;
(d) "family" means a family consisting of any one or more or all of the following, namely :
(1) husband, (2) wife, (3) minor children, and also includes a joint family.
(e) [ Deleted ],
(f) "land" means land which is or may be utilised for agricultural purpose or purposes subservient thereto, and includes land which is or may be utilised for quarrying stones ;
(g) the word "land-holder" has the meaning assigned to the Assam Land and Revenue Regulations, 1886 ;
(h) "landlord" means a person immediately under whom a tenant holds land out but does not include the Government;
(i) "owner" includes proprietor,land-holder or settlement holder as defined in Section 3 of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulations 1886 but does not include Government;
(j) "person" includes an individual, a family, a joint family, a trustee, a company, a body corporate, a partnership firm, a society or an association of individuals whether incorporated or not;
(k) "personal cultivation" means cultivation-
(i) by the person himself, or
(ii) by any member of his family, or
(iii) by servants or hired labourers on fixed remuneration payable in cash or in kind but not in crop share, under personal supervision of the person himself or any member of his family :
(l) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(m) the expression "public purpose" include a purpose connected with settlement of land with actual cultivator or co- operative farming society;
(n) "rent" means whatever is fully payable in money or in kind on account of the use and occupation of the land;
(o) "tenant" means a person who holds land under another person and is or but for a special contract would be liable to pay rent for that land to that other person, and includes a person who cultivates the land of another person on condition of delivering a share of the produce.
Chapter II
Ceiling on Existing Holding and Acquisition of Excess Land
Section 3 • The Assam Fixation of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1956
3. Definitions.
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Section 3
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