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2. Definitions

2. Definitions : Unless the subject or the context otherwise requires, in this Act:
(a) “land” means all categories of land, including those with buildings, gardens, trees, factories, lakes, ponds etc.;
(a1) 2 “survey and measurement” means the act of collecting data related to landowners and tenants, preparing maps of lands, ascertaining the
area of lands, categorizing the grades of lands or registering lands with the field book on the basis of maps or records, and this terms includes the act of carrying out an aerial survey, establishing controlling points for survey and making cadastral survey at various scale (Man) and publishing maps;
(a2) 3 “registration record” means the landowner registration record so prepared on the basis of the map and field book prepared following
the survey and measurement of a land as to clearly indicating, inter alia, the landholder, tenant, plot, area and type or grade of the land;
(a3) 4 “border” means a border line determining the boundary between two different pieces of land;
(a4) 5 “plot” means a piece of land that has boarder in all four sides and has similarity in right, possession and grade in each place;
(b) 6 “landholder” means a person who has right to be a landowner of/in a land in accordance with the prevailing Nepal law;
(c) 7 “tenant” means a person who cultivates a land belonging to other landholder through the labour of him or her or of his or her family
after getting the land for cultivation on any condition; (d) 8 “Patuwari” means any persons who maintain records of lands or homesteads and recover land-revenue or other tariff in accordance therewith;
(e) “government land” means the land where there exit roads, railway, government building or office and this expression also includes  forest, shrubs, jungle, river, streams, Nadi Ukas, lake, pond and  ridge thereof, main canal (Nahar), water course (Kulo), (Barron) Ailani, Parti and other types of land, Bhir, Pahara, Dagar, shore
(Bagar) which is under the control of Government and such other lands as a Government land as prescribed by Government of Nepal by a Notification in the Nepal Gazette.
(f) 9 “public land” means and includes roads, wells, water conduits, shores, ponds and banks thereof, exits for chattels, pasture lands, graveyards, burial sites, inns, Pauwas, Dewals, religious meditation sites, memorials, temples, shrines, Chowk, Dawali, sewerage, Chautaro, lands where fairs, markets and public entertainment or sports sites are located, which been used publically but nor personally since ancient times, and such other lands as prescribed to be the public land by the Government of Nepal, by a notification in the Nepal Gazette; and
(g) “prescribed” or “as prescribed” means prescribed or as prescribed in the rules framed under this Act.

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