In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "appointed day" means the date on which this Act comes into force;
(b) "Arthapalisa" means an allowance payable by the Government either in paddy or in money at the option of the Jenmi, which, before the date of the Proclamation, was payable only in paddy, but does not include any political or family pension;
(c) "Jenmi" means a person who is entitled to receive Arthapalisa, Jenmibhogam or Karathilchilavu, from the Government;
(d) "Jenmibhogam" means a portion of the paddy assessed as tax on some of the paddy fields classified in the Revenue Settlement of 1061 M.E. as Pandarapattom and paid to the Jenmies in recognition of some claims of those Jenmies on those paddy fields prior to the said settlement, which on and after the date of the Proclamation, is payable either in paddy or in money at the opinion of the Jenmies, but does not include any political and family pension;
* Received the assent of the Governor on the 13th day of October, 2007 and published in the Kerala Gazette Extraordinary No. 1864 dated 15th October, 2007.
(e) "Karathilchilavu" means a pension or allowance payable by the Government from the Government Treasury in lieu of the practice whereby the holders of certain lands who were entitled to pensions or allowances from the Government, were allowed to set off such dues from the land tax payable by them for the lands in their possession;
(f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules under this Act;
(g) "Proclamation" means the Proclamation issued by His Highness the Maharaja of Travancore on the 27th day of August 1917;
(h) "Tahsildar" means the Tahsildar of the taluk in which the Government Treasury from which the Arthapalisa or Jenmibhogam (where it is payable in cash) or the Karathilchilavu, as the case may be, is payable to the Jenmi is situate and includes any other officer empowered by the Government to exercise the powers of a Tahsildar under this Act.