Transfer of Government Property to a Municipality will take only after actual Transfer: 42 (1976) CLT 174.

¹ Omitted by Act 4 of 1975

² Substituted by Act 4 of 1975.

Definitions :– In this Act, unless the context otherwise required– (a)"Collector" means the Chief Officer in charge of the revenue administration of a district and shall include an Additional District Magistrate;

(a-1) "Landless person" means a person, the total extent of whose land excluding homestead together with lands of all the members of his family who are living with him in common mess, is less than one standard acre and whose total annual income of all the members of his family who are living with him in common mess, does not exceed rupees six thousand and four hundred or an amount which the State Government may, by notification from time to time, specify in that behalf; (a-2) "homesteadless person" means a person who, together with all the members of his family who are living with him in common mess, does not have any homestead land anywhere in the State and owns less than one standard acre of land other than homestead and whose total annual income, together with the annual income of all the members of his family living with him in common mess, does not exceed rupees four thousand and two hundred or an amount which the State Govt. may, by notification from time to time, specify in that behalf"; (b)"Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made by the State Government under this Act; and

3[(b-1) "standard acre" means a standard acre as defined in the Orissa Land Reforms Act, 1960;] (c)"Tahasildar" means the Chief Officer in charge of the revenue administration of a Tahasil and shall include an Additional Tahasildar. NOTES Tahasildar while proceeding in the matter of eviction is to consider the question of settlement of land in favour of the encroacher in view of the provision of the Sections: 1990 (I) OLR 304.