54. In this Law unless the context otherwise requires, "agricultural labourer " means a person who is employed to perform, for wages in money or kind, any work connected with the production of paddy or the cultivation of any extent of paddy land with any such crop other than paddy as is permitted by or under this Law to be cultivated on that extent; " agricultural land " means land used or capable of being used for agriculture within the meaning given in this Law and shall include private lands, lands alienated under the Land Development Ordinance or the Crown Lands Ordinance or any other enactment; " Agricultural Productivity Committee " means the Agricultural Productivity Committee established under the Agricultural Productivity Law No. 2 of 1972; " Agricultural Productivity Fund " means the Agricultural Productivity Fund established under the Agricultural Productivity Law, No. 2 of 1972; "Agricultural Tribunal " means the Agricultural Tribunal established under the Agricultural Productivity Law, No. 2 of 1972; " agriculture " includes: -
| (i) the growing of rice, field crops, spices and condiments, industrial crops, vegetables, fruits, flowers, pasture and fodder; |
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| (ii) dairy farming,, live stock rearing and breeding; |
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| (iii) plant and fruit nurseries; but does not include plantation crops; |
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" citizen of Sri Lanka " means any Individual who is a citizen of Sri Lanka under any law for the time being in force relating to such citizenship; " Cultivation Committee " means a Cultivation Committee constituted in accordance with the provisions of this Law; " cultivator " with reference to an extent of paddy land means any person who, by himself or by any member of his family, or jointly with any-other person, other than an agricultural labourer or a Cultivation Committee which by any person, carries out on such extent: -
| (a) two or more of the operations of ploughing, sowing and reaping; and |
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| (b) the operation of tending or watching the crop in each season during which paddy is cultivated on such extent; |
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" evict " means in relation to a tenant cultivator, to deprive by using direct or indirect methods that tenant cultivator of his right to use occupy and cultivate the whole or any part of the extent of paddy land let to him; " landlord " with reference to an extent of paddy land means the person other than an owner cultivator, who "will for the time being be entitled to the rent in respect of such extent if it were let on rent to any person, and includes any tenant of such extent who lets it to any subtenant; "let " with reference to any extent of paddy land, means to permit any person, under an oral or written agreement, to occupy and use such extent in consideration of the performance of any service by him or the payment, of rent consisting of a sum of money or a share of the produce from such extent; " member of the family " with reference to any per son, means the spouse or a son or daughter of that person, or a parent, brother or sister of that person or a child of a brother or sister of that person; " owner cultivator " with reference to any extent of paddy land means the person who is the owner or usufructuary mortgagee of such extent and who is the cultivator of the entirety of such extent and in the case of an extent of Daddy land which has been, alienated under the Land Development Ordinance, the person who derives title to such extent, shall be deemed to be the owner cultivator of that extent; " paddy land " means land which is cultivated with paddy or is prepared for the cultivation of paddy or which, having at any time previously been cultivated with paddy, is suitable for the cultivation of paddy, and in eludes such other land adjoining or appertaining to it as may be used by the cultivator for a threshing floor or for constructing his dwelling house, but does not include chena land or any land which, with the permission of the Agricultural Productivity Committee is used for any purpose other than cultivation in accordance with the provisions of the Law; " peace officer " includes a police officer and Grama Sevaka appointed by the Government Agent in writing to perform police duties; "Prescribed bank " means the People's Bank , the Bank of Ceylon, the National Savings Bank or any Co- operative Rural Bank. |
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