Section 2: Definitions

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or conext, –

¹(a) [ x x x ]

(b) ‘‘adult’’ means a person who has ²[attained the age of twenty-one years.];

³[(bb) ‘‘backward classes’’ means the backward classes of citizens specified in Schedule-I of the Uttar Pradesh Public Services (Reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other Backward Classes) Act, 1994.]

¹(c) [ x x x ]

⁴(d) [ x x x ]

⁵[(e) ‘‘Collector’’ or ‘‘District Magistrate’’ or ‘‘Sub-divisional Magistrate’’, with references to a Gaon Sabha, means the Collector, District Magistrate or Sub-Divisional Magistrate of the district or the sub-division, as the case may be, in which such Gram Sabha is constituted and shall respectively include Additional Collector, Additional District Magistrate and Additional Sub-Divisional Magistrate];

⁶[(ee) ‘Electoral Registration Officer’ means an officer designated or nominated or such by the State Election Commission in consultation with the State Government for preparing and revising the electoral rolls in a district;

(eee) ‘Assistant Electoral Registration Officer’ means a person appointed as such by the Electoral Registration Officer for one or more Panchayat areas.]

⁷[(f) ‘Zila Panchayat’ shall have the meaning assigned to it under clause (II) of section 2 of the Uttar Pradesh Kshettra Panchayats and Zila Panchayats Adhiniyam, 1961.

(g) ‘Gram Sabha’ means a body established under section 3, consisting of persons registered in the electoral rolls relating to a village comprised within the area of a Gram Panchayat ;

(h) ‘Gram Panchayat’ means the Gram Panchayat established under section 12;]

⁸[(hh) ‘Finance Commission’ means the Finance Commi-ssion constituted under Article 243-I of the Constitution;

(hhh) ‘Kshettra Panchayat’ shall have the meaning assigned to it under clause (6) of section 2 of the Uttar Pradesh Kshettra Panchayats and Zila Panchayats Adhiniyam, 1961;]

⁹[(i) ‘‘Electoral Registration Officer’’ means an officer so nominated or designated under sub-section (1) of section 9];

(j) ¹⁰[ x x x ]

(k) ⁴(x x x)

¹¹[(kk) ‘State Election Commission’ means the State Election Commission referred to in Article 243-K of the Constitution;

¹²[(kkk) ‘Mukhya Nirvachan Adhikari (Panchayat)’ means as officer of the State Government appointed, designated or nominated as such by the State Election Commission in consultation with the State Government;]

¹¹(l) ‘population’ means the population as uncertained at the last proceeding cencus of which the relevant figures have been published;

¹¹(ll) ‘Panchayat area’ means the territorial area of a Gram Panchayat declared as such under sub-section (I) of section 11-F;]

(m) ¹³[ x x x]

¹⁴[(mm) ‘‘Public property’’ and ‘‘public land’’ means any public building, park or garden or other place to which for the time being the public have or are permitted to have access whether on payment or otherwise];

(n) ‘‘public servant’’ means a public servant as defined in section 21 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860;

(o) ‘‘public street’’ means any road, street, bridge, lane, square, court, alley or passage which the public has a right to pass along, and includes on either side the drains or gutters and the land up to the defined boundary of any abutting property notwithstanding any projection over such land of any verandah or other superstructure; ¹⁵[but does not include any such road, street, bridge, lane, square, court, alley or passage owned, maintained or repaired by the State Government or the Central Government or any other local authority]

(p) ‘‘prescribed’’ means prescribed by this Act or rules made thereunder;

¹⁶[(q) ‘Prescribed authority’ means :

(i) for the purposes of the provisions of this Act mentioned in Schedule III of the ¹⁷[Uttar Pradesh Kshettra Panchayats and Zila Panchayats Adhiniyam, 1961], the Zila Panchayats or the Kshettra Panchayats, as may be specified in column 3 of that Schedule, and

(ii) in respect of any other provisions of this Act the authority notified as such by the State Government whether generally or for any particular purpose;]

(r) ¹⁸[ x x x ]

(s) ¹⁹[ x x x ]

²⁰[(ss) ‘‘Sub-Divisional Officer’’ includes Additional Sub-Divisional Officer designated or appointed as such by the appropriate authority]

(t) ‘‘village’’ means any local area, recorded as a village in the revenue records of the district in which it is situate ²¹[and includes any area which the State Government may by general or special order, declare to be a village for the purposes of this Act.]

(u) ²²[ x x x ]

(v) ²²[ x x x ]

(w) ²³[ x x x ]

²⁴[(x) ‘‘Bhumi Prabandhak Samiti’’ means a Bhumi Praban-dhak Samiti established deemed to be established under section 28-A]