(1) This Regulation may be called the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands Survey and Boundaries Regulation, 1959.
(2) It extends to the whole of the Union territory of the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands.
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2. In this Regulation, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "Administrator" means the Administrator of the Islands1, Definitions.
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(b) "cowledar" means a person who has been or is granted a lease of pandaram land on rent for a specified period, one of the conditions of such lease being that' he makes improvements thereto;
(c) "Islands" means the Union territory of the Laecadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands;
(d) "land-owner" means a person—
(1) who is the proprietor of a parcel of land under the customary law of the Islands; or
(il) who is shown as holding land aq. a lessee thereof in the Government accounts; or
(iii) who is shown as holding pandaram land as a cowledar in the Government accounts; or
(iv) whose name is registered as owner in any register maintained by the Administrator or by any of his assistants authorised by him in this behalf;
(c) "pandaram land" means land in which Government has a proprietary right;
(/) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Regulation;
(0) "survey" includes all operations incidental to the determination, measurement and record of a boundary, or any part of a boundary and includes a re-survey;
(h) "survey mark" means any mark or object erected, made, employed or specified by a survey officer to indicate or determine or assist in determining the position or level of any point or points;
({) "survey officer" means any person appointed to be a survey officer under section 3.
Appointment of urvey ofHeer.