Section 2 — Definitions.

2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the 

subject or context,- 

(a)  “agricultural year” means the year commencing on the 

sixteenth day of June, or on such other date as the State 

Government may by notification appoint for any local area; 

(b) “Collector” means Collector of the district where the land is 

situated; 

(c) “land” means land which is not urban land and is not 

occupied as the site of any building in a town or village, but 

does not include land which is leased by Government under 

any law other than this Act ; 

(d) “owner” means a person having a proprietary right in the land 

and includes a usufructuary mortgagee or a lessee; 

(e) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; 

(f)  “tenant” means a person to whom land is leased by the 

Collector under the provisions of this Act; and 

(g)  “urban land” means all land included within the limits of a  

Municipal Corporation, Municipal Committee, Notified Area 

Committee and Cantonment.