In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “agriculture” with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes horticulture, the raising of crops or garden produce and dairy farming;
(b) “agriculture labourer” means a person whose principal means of livelihood is the income he gets as wages, in connection with the agricultural operations he performs;
(c) “appointed date” means the date on which this Act comes into force;
(d) “Code” means the Goa Land Revenue Code, 1968 (Act 9 of 1969);
(e) “Collector” means the Collector of the District and includes an Officer appointed by the Government for the purposes of this Act;
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(f) “to cultivate personally” means to cultivate any land on one‟s own account,-
(i) by one‟s own labour; or
(ii) by the labour of any member of one‟s family; or
(iii) by a servant on wages payable in cash or kind but not in crop share or by hired labour under one‟s personal supervision or the personal supervision of any member of one‟s family;
Explanation.— For the purpose of this clause—
(i) A widow or a minor or a person who is subject to any physical or mental disability or who is a member of the Armed Forces of the Union shall be deemed to cultivate the land personally if it is cultivated by her or his servants or by hired labour;
(ii) In the case of an undivided Hindu family, the land shall be deemed to have been cultivated personally if it is cultivated by any member of such family;
(g) “cultivation” means the use of lands for the purpose of agriculture;
(h) “cultivating tenant” means a person who cultivates personally any land belonging to another under an Agreement, express or implied, and pays rent therefore in cash or in kind or delivers a share of the produce;
(i) “Government” means the Government of Goa;
(j) “homestead” means a dwelling house together with any courtyard, compound, garden, outhouse, place of worship, family graveyard, storehouse, library, office, guest house, tanks, wells, privies, latrines, drains and boundary walls annexed or appertaining to such dwelling house;
(k) “land” means any land used either for purposes of agriculture or for purposes ancillary thereto including waste land, forest land, land for pasture or sites of buildings and other structures occupied by cultivators of land, agricultural labourers and village artisans and includes,—
(i) benefits to arise out of such land; and
(ii) things attached to such land or permanently fixed to anything attached to such land;
(l) “mundkar” means a mundkar as defined in section 2(p) of the Goa, Daman and Diu Mundkars (Protection from Eviction) Act, 1975 (Act No. 1 of 1976);
(m) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(n) “property” includes every kind of land, title to such land and property declared as „evacuee property‟;
(o) “proprietor” includes a person who holds land granted to him or any of his predecessors-in-interest by the erstwhile Portuguese Government/regime by way of gift, sale or otherwise, his co-sharers, or person having become owner of land by prescription/adverse possession;
(p) “section” means a section of this Act;
(q) “tenant” means a tenant as defined in section 2 (23) of the Goa, Daman and Diu Agricultural Tenancy Act, 1964 (Act No. 7 of 1964);
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(r) “title holder” means a person or his successors in interest who were conferred or given the title by the erstwhile Portuguese Government/regime;
(s) “Tribunal” means the Administrative Tribunal constituted under the Goa Administrative Tribunal Act, 1965 (Act No. 6 of 1965).