Definitions

In this Regulation, unless the context otherwise requires,— (1) "Area Committee" means the Area Land Improvement Committee constituted under section 11; (2) "Board" means the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Land Improvement Board constituted under section 8; (3) "Chief Commissioner" means the Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; (4) "Deputy Commissioner" means the Deputy Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and includes any other officer specially appointed by the Chief Commissioner to perform the functions of a Deputy Commissioner under this Regulation; (5) "erosion" means the removal or displacement of earth, stones or other materials by the action of wind or water; (6) "Executive Officer" means an officer appointed under section 18 to execute a scheme; (7) "Inquiry Officer" means an officer appointed under sub-section (5) of section 14; (8) "Official Gazette" means the Andaman and Nicobar Gazette; (9) "owner"— (a) in relation to land situated in the Andaman Group of Islands means a person to whom a grant has been made, or a licence or permit has been granted, under the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Land Tenure) Regulation, 1963, and includes a mortgagee with possession, or a lessee or a sub-lessee; (b) in relation to land situated in the Nicobar Group of Islands means a person who is in lawful possession of any land; (10) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Regulation; (11) "reclamation" includes cultivation, reforestation or any other improvement of land; (12) "scheme" means a Land Improvement scheme prepared under this Regulation; (13) "waste land" means any land, which for a period of not less than three consecutive years has been lying waste on account of water-logging, salinity, presence of sand, growth of weeds, soil erosion or any other cause or has been lying uncultivated; (14) "work" means a work constructed, owned or carried out under a scheme and includes a pasture or a nursery provided or raised under a scheme; (15) the expressions "cattle", "forest-produce", "timber" and "tree" have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Indian Forest Act, 1927.