Definitions.

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,- (a) "agricultural year" means the year commencing from the first day February; (b) "civil court" does not include the High Court or the Supreme Court; (c) "cultivator" means a person who cultivates the land of another person on condition of payment of rent, in cash or in kind, or on condition of delivering or receiving share or any fixed quantity of the produce and includes a persons who cultivates the land of another person on any terms and conditions except as a paid servant or hired labourer but does not include persons who are cultivating under work permits granted under laws in force at present in the State of Sikkim with their addresses outside the country. (d) "owner" means a person whose land is cultivated by a cultivator; (e) "personal cultivation" means cultivation of the land by the owner himself or through members of his family or his heirs and dependents or through paid servants or hired labourer; (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (g) "Prescribed authority" means the District Collector within whose jurisdiction the land is situated and shall also include any other officer specially empowered by the State Government in this behalf.