Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "Administrator" means the Administrator of the Union Territory of Tripura; (b) "Collector" means the Collector appointed under section 4 of the Tripura Land Revenue and Land Reforms Act, 1960 and includes any other officer empowered by the Administrator to exercise and perform the powers and functions of the Collector under this Act; (c) "family" means, in relation to a person, the wife or husband of such person, his children, grandchildren, parents and brothers, and in the case of a joint Hindu family, any member of such family; (d) "House Tax" means the tax commonly known as "Gharchuktikar" payable by the tribal inhabitants for practising jhum; (e) "Jhum" means the mode of shifting cultivation without the use of plough; (f) "Official Gazette" means the Tripura Gazette; (g) "person under disability" shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Tripura Land Revenue and Land Reforms Act, 1960; (h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (i) "tribal inhabitants" means the tribes, tribal communities, or parts of, or groups within tribes or tribal communities specified in Part III of the Schedule to the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) (Union Territories) Order, 1951; (j) "year" means the agricultural year commencing on such date as the Administrator may, in the case of any specified area, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.