Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "Allotment Commissioner" means the Sub-Divisional Magistrate; (b) "Chief Allotment Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the District; (c) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Division; (d) "competent authority" means the officer who is the Deputy Commissioner of the District; (e) "cultivating possession" means continuous cultivating possession established by the entries in the revenue record; (f) "Family" in relation 10 a person means the person, his or her husband, as the case may be, of such person and his or her minor children; (g) "Financial Commissioner" means the Financial Commissioner (Revenue) of the State of Punjab; (h) "head of family" means the eldest adult male member of family, provided that an adult married son will be regarded as head of his own smaller family which shall also be considered separate unit; (i) "land" means the State Government's rural agriculture land belonging to or vesting in the State Government but shall exclude- (i) evacuee land, which is governed by the Punjab Package Deal Properties (Disposal) Act, 1976; (ii) nazool land, which is governed by the Nazool Land Transfer Rules, 1956; (iii) surplus land, which means the area declared surplus land and which is governed by the Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972; (iv) shamlat land means the land as defined in the Punjab Village Common lands (Regulation) Act, 1961; and (v) mushtarka malkan land kept for common purposes in the light of section 23-A and section 42-A ofthe East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948; (j) "occupant" means a person in continuous cultivating possession of land, whether authorized or unauthorized, either himself or through his lineal ascendant(s); (k) "rural area" means an area within the State of Punjab which is not urban area; (l) "State Government" means the Government of the State of Punjab in the Department of Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management; and (m) "Tehsildar (Allotment)" means the Tehsildar.