It extends to the States of Madras and Andhra.

Definitions In this Act- the term "landholders" shall be taken to include all persons holding under a sanad-i-milkiyat-i-istimrar, all other zamindars, shrotriemdars, jagirdars, inamdars and all persons farming the land-revenue under Government, but shall not include holders of lands under raiyatwari settlement: "railway" means a railway for the public conveyance of passengers or goods; it includes-

1. (a) all land within the fences or other boundary marks prescribed under section 62, Act IV of 1879 (India);
2. (b) all lines of rail, sidings or branches worked over for the purposes of, or in connection with, a railway;
3. (c) all stations, offices, warehouses, fixed machinery and other works constructed for the purposes of, or in connection with, a railway; "irrigation-works" means and includes tanks, river-channels, embankments, sluices, weirs, rovetdents and other works of a like description situated upon the lands of landholders.