Act Info:
In this Act unless the context requires otherwise,-
(a) "Commissioner" shall mean the Commissioner of a division appointed under the law relating to land revenue as amended by the Schedule to this Act;
(b) "Director of Local Authorities" means an officer ap pointed for the time being by the State Government to be the Director of Local Authorities; .
(c) "Division" means the territories formed into a division under the Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879, or under that Code in its application to the Kutch and Saurashtra areas of the State of Bombay, or under the Madhya Pradesh Land Revenue Code, 1954. or under the Hyderabad Land Revenue Act;
(d) "Divisional Officer" means an officer appointed as such, immediately before the commencement of this Act. under the provisions of -
(i) section 5 of the Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879, or that section of the Code in its applica tion to the Kutch area of the State of Bombay;
(ii) section 5 of the said Code in its application to the Saurashtra area of the State of Bombay arid read with the Government Notification in the Legal Department No. 25398/B, dated 1st November, 1956 issued under section 122 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956;
(iii) section 9-A of the Madhya Pradesh Land Revenue Code, 1954, read with Government Notification in the Revenue Department No. RVA. 1556-R, dated 1st November, 1956; or
(iv) section 4 of the Hyderabad Land Revenue Act;
(e) "existing law" means any enactment of a Legislature or other competent authority in relation to matters specified in lists II and III in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution in force in any part of the State immediately before the commencement of this Act and includes any rule, by-law, regulation, order, notification, scheme, form or other instrument having the force of law made, prescribed or issued under any such commencement;
(f) "Schedule" means the Schedule appended to this Act.
NOTES
"Commissioners''.-A title of office. "He that hath a commission, or other lawful warrant to examine any matters, or to execute any public office etc." (Tomlin's law dictionary) (quoted in Aiyar's Law Lexicon).
He is the chief controlling authority in all matters connected with the Land Revenue in his division, subject to the superintendence, direction and control of the State Government. (Sec. 5 of Land Revenue Code, 1966).
"Local Authority".-Shall mean a municipal corporation, municipality, local board, body of port trustees or Commissioners or other authority legally entitled to, or entrusted by the Government with the control or management of a municipal or local-fund. (Sec. 3(26) of Bombay General Clauses Act, 1 of 1904).- Kanukchand Premchand Sanghui v. State of Maharashtra. 1975 Mah. L. J. 177.
"Divisions".-The State is divided into divisions which shall consist of one or more districts, each district may consist of one or more sub-divisions and each sub-division may consist of one or more taluka and each taluka may consist of certain villages.
Now Government has divided State into 7 divisions, 29 districts and 399 talukas.