Explanation

  “agricultural year” means the year commencing on the sixteenth day of June, or on such other date as the Provincial Government may, by notification appoint for any local area:

Explanation

  “legal practitioner” means any legal practitioner within the meaning of the Legal Practitioners Act, 1879, except a mukhtar:

Explanation

“Jagirdar” includes any person, other than a village servant, to whom the land revenue of any land has been assigned in whole or in part 

Explanation

  “Revenue Officer” or “Revenue Court”, in any provision of this Act, means a Revenue Officer or Revenue Court having authority under this Act

to discharge the functions of a Revenue Officer or Revenue Court, as the case may be, under that provision:

Explanation

“Village Officer” means a chief headman, headman or Patwari:

Explanation

 “village cess” means any cess, contribution or due which is customarily leviable, from land-owners and non-land-owners alike, within an estate for the common purposes of the inhabitants thereof, and is neither a payment for the use of any private property or for personal service, nor imposed by or under any enactment for the time being in force, and does not mean any cess, contribution or due leviable, for the benefit of any individual residents or class of residents in the estate, or in relation to any property which is not meant for the common use of all the residents:

Explanation

 “rates and cesses” means rates and cesses which are primarily payable by land-owners, and includes–

Explanation

“land revenue” means land revenue assessed under any law for the time being in force or assessable under the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 

Explanation

 “estate”, “land-owner” and “holding” have the meanings respectively assigned to those words in the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 

Explanation

 “tenancy” means a parcel of land held by a tenant of a land-lord under one lease or one set of conditions: