In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
(a) "fasli year" means a period of twelve months commencing on the first day of July of every year;
(b) "Government" means the State Government;
(c) "Government source of irrigation" means any source of irrigation which is owned or controlled by the Government or constructed or maintained by them but does not include a rain-fed tank which ordinarily supplied water for a period of less than eight months in a fasli year;
Explanation.- The expression 'rain-fed tank' means a tank which derives supply of water from a source other than a river;
(d) "land revenue" means the amount of land revenue as defined in clause (f) of section 2 of the Telangana Land Revenue (Enhancement) Act, 1967, or as the case may be as determined under section 5 of that Act, in regard to the wet land, together with the additional land revenue as determined and payable for any wet land under that Act;
(e) "law" includes any enactment, Ordinance, regulation, order, bye-law, rule, scheme, notification, or other instrument having the force of law;
(f) "Pattadar" includes every person who holds land directly under the Government under a patta or whose name is registered in the land revenue accounts of the Government as pattadar or as occupant or khatadar and who is liable to pay land revenue;
(g) "Revenue Divisional Officer" means the Revenue Divisional Officer in whose jurisdiction the wet land is situate and includes any officer of the Revenue Department not below the rank of a Revenue Divisional Officer empowered by the Government to exercise the powers and perform the functions of the Revenue Divisional Officer under this Act;
(h) "Tahsildar" means the Tahsildar in whose jurisdiction the wet land is situate and includes a Deputy Tahsildar in independent charge of a taluk or sub-taluk and any other officer of the Revenue Department not below the rank of a Deputy Tahsildar empowered by the Government to exercise the powers and perform the functions of the Tahsildar under this Act;
(i) "wet land" means land registered as wet, single crop wet, or double crop wet or compounded double crop wet or special rate wet land, in the land revenue accounts of the Government, or assessed as such, but does not include a wet land which is registered in the land revenue accounts of the Government as being irrigated under any well, spring channel, parrekalva, naddinala, vagunala, kasam, sona, bila, uppalwatbonda, doruvu, bhurki, kole or by crossbunding.