In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,--
(1) the expressions "agricultural year," "malik makbuza," "sir-land," "survey-number,"
"record-of-rights" and "village" have the meanings assigned to them, respectively, in the Central Provinces Land-revenue Act, 1881(XVIII of 1881) as from time to time amended :
(2) "arrear" means an installment or part of an installment of rent which is not paid on or before the date on which it is payable:
(3) "holding" means a parcel of land held by a tenant of a landlord under one lease or one set of conditions:
(4) "improvement" means, with reference to a holding, any work which adds to the letting-value of the holding, which is suitable to the holding and consistent with the purpose for which it was let, and which, if not executed on the holding, is either executed directly for its benefit, or is, after execution, made directly beneficial to it:
Explanation I.--It includes the reclaiming, enclosing or clearing of lands for agricultural purposes; but it does not include such embankments, temporary wells and water-channels as arc made by tenants in the ordinary course of agriculture; and no work executed by the tenant of a holding is an improvement if it substantially diminishes the value of any other part of the estate of his landlord:
Explanation II.--A work which benefits several holdings may be deemed to be, with respect to each of them, an improvement:
(5) "land" means land which is let or occupied for agricultural purposes or for purposes subservient to agriculture, and includes the sites of buildings appurtenant to such land:
(6) "landlord" means the person of whom a tenant holds land, and to whom the tenant is, or, but for special contract, would be, liable to pay rent for that land :
(7) "pay," "payable" and "payment," used with reference to rent, include "deliver," "deliverable" and "delivery" :
(8) "rent" means whatever is paid, delivered or rendered, in money, kind or service, by a tenant on account of the use or occupation of land let to him :
(9) "Revenue-officer" and "Settlement-officer," in any provision of this Act, mean, respectively, such Revenue-officer or Settlement-officer appointment under the Central Provinces Land-Revenue Act, 1881 (XVIII of 1881) as from time to time amended, as the Local Government may, by notification in the local official Gazette, direct to discharge the functions of a Revenue-officer or Settlement-officer (as the case may be) under that provision : and
(10) "tenant" means a person who holds land of another person, and is, or, but for a special contract, would be, liable to pay rent for that land to that other person. But it does not include a farmer, mortgagee or thikadar of proprietary rights:
Explanation I.--An inferior proprietor is not, as such, a tenant :
Explanation II.-- The holder of a survey-number in a village let in farm by the Government, or held by a gaontia in the Sambalpur District, is a tenant of the farmer or gaontia for the time being.