Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

1. (a) “Director” means an officer appointed by notification, by the State Government to exercise the powers and to perform the functions of the Director under this Act ;
2. (b) “Land Reclamation Officer” means an Officer appointed by notification, by the State Government to exercise the powers and to perform the functions of a Land Reclamation Officer under this Act in a canal division or a number of canal divisions;
3. (c) “Owner of land” includes the occupier thereof ;
4. (d) “reclaimable area” means any area notified under sub-section

1. (6) of section 4;
   • (e) “reclamation” means taking of such measures as may be considered necessary by the Director, for treatment of thur and sem lands with a view to making them fit for normal cropping ;
   • (f) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act ;
   • (g) “thur and sem land” means any land affected or rendered unfit for cultivation by accumulation of salinity, alkalinity or waterlogging ; and
   • (h) any other expression used and not defined in this Act shall have the same meaning as is assigned to it in Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, 1873.