Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "authorized officer" means an officer, authorized by the State Government, by notification in the official Gazette; (b) "coltector" means the collector as provided under section 6 of the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887 (17 of 1887), and includes any officer authorized by the State Government to exercise the powers of a Collector; (c) "farmer" means any person, cultivating land either as an owner or as a tenant or as a sharecropper for the purpose of agriculture, agro forestry and the like; (d) "notified date" means the date as may be notified under sub-section (2) of section 3; (e) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (f) "State Government" means the Government of the State of Haryana.