State Act

THE PUNJAB ALLOTMENT OF STATE: GOVERNMENT LAND

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "Allotment Commissioner" means the Sub-Divisional Magistrate; (b) "Collector" means the District Collector or the Deputy Commissioner of the District; (c) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Division; (d) "competent authority" means the Chief Allotment Commissioner, 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 to a person means the person, the wife or 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 a 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 of the 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.