Act 2013 - Department of Land Resources

THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY[Parr ll-(r) "land owner" includes any person,-(i) whose name is recorded as the owner ofthe land or building or partthereof, in the records ofthe authority conceroed; or(rr) any person who is granted forest rights under the Scheduled Tribesand Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights)Act,2006 2of2007.or under any other law for the time being in force; or(iii) who is entitled to be granted Patta rights on the land under any law ofthe State including assigned lands: or(iv) any penon who has been declared as such by an order ofthe court orAuthorityi(s) "local authority" includes a town planning authority (by whatever namecalled) set up under any Iaw for the time being in force, a Panchayat as defined in article243 and a Municipality as defined in anicle 2438 ofthe Constitution;(r) "marginal farmer" means a cultivator with an un-irrigated land holding up toone hectare or irrigated land holding up ro one-halfhectare;(r) "market value" means the value of land determined in accordance withsectiorn 26;(v) "notitication" means a notificalion published in the Gazette oflndiaor, as thecase may be, the Gazette of a State and the expression "notiry" shall be construedaccordingly;(w) "patta" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the relevant Centralor Slate Acts or rules or regulations made thereunder;(x) "person interested" means-(i) all persons claiming an interest in compensation to be made on accduntofthe acquisition of land under this Act;(rr) the Scheduled Tribes ancl other traditional forest dwellers, who havelost any forest rights recognised under the Schcduled Tribes and Other TraditionalForest Dwellers (Recognition ofForest Rights) Act, 2006;2 of 2007 .(iir) a person interested in an easement affecting the land;(iv) persons having tenancy rights under the releyant State laws includingshare-croppers by whatever name they may be called; and(v) any person whose primary source oflivelihood is likely to be adverselyaffected;(y) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;(z) "project" means aproject forwhich land is being acquired, irrespective ofthenumber of persons affected;(za) "public purpose" means the activities specified under sub-section (,1) ofsection 2;(26) "Requiring Body" means a company, a body corporate, an institution, orany other organisation or person for whom land is to be acquired by the appropriateGovemment, and includes the appropriate Govemment, ifthe acquisition ofland is forsuch Covemment either for its own use or for subsequent transfer ofsuch land is forpublic purpose to acompany, body corporate, an institution, orany other organisation,as the case may be, under lease, licence or lhrough any other mode oftransfer ofland;(zc) "Resettlemenl Area" means an area where the affected families who havebeen displaced as a result of land acquisition are resettled by the appropriateGovemment;I