58. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,- " administrative region" means an administrative region defined by Order made under section 2 of the Local Government (Administrative Regions) Ordinance ; " annual value " *[* Shall not have effect in such areas as may be specified in an Order under Section 2 of the Rating and Valuation Ordinance-See Section 76 thereof.] means the annual rent which a tenant might reasonably be expected, taking one year with another, to pay for any house, building, land, or tenement, if the tenant undertook to pay all public rates and taxes, and if the landlord undertook to bear the cost of insurance, repairs, maintenance, and upkeep, if any, necessary to maintain the house, building, land, or tenement in a state to command that rent: Provided that in the computation and assessment of annual value-
| (a) the probable annual average cost of such insurance, repairs, maintenance, and upkeep shall be deducted ; |
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| (b) no allowance or reduction shall be made for any period of non-tenancy whatsoever ; |
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" Assistant Commissioner ", in relation to any village area, means the Assistant Commissioner of Local Government for the administrative region within which the village area is situated; " Commissioner of Local Government" includes any Deputy Commissioner of Local Government; " co-operative society " means any society registered under any law for the time being in force relating to such societies ; " district " means an administrative district; " elections officer" means the elections officer of a district appointed under the provisions of written law for the time being applicable in that behalf and includes any assistant elections officer so appointed ; " divisional revenue officer" includes a Ratemahatmaya, mudaliyar, adigar, maniagar, or vanniya ; " divisional revenue officer's division" means the area under the supervision of a divisional revenue officer ; " excepted persons" means persons resident in Ceylon and being
| (a) persons commonly known as Europeans, |
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| (b) persons commonly known as Burghers, and |
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| (c) labourers as defined in the Estate Labour (Indian) Ordinance, including any woman or child related to any such labourer or any aged or incapacitated relative of any such labourer ; |
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[§ 90, 53 of 1946.1 " first general election " means a general election held for the purposes of electing the first members of a Village Council to be constituted for a village area under this Ordinance ; " Fiscal" includes a Deputy Fiscal within the province of the Fiscal; [§ 27, 54 of 1942.] " Government Agent" includes an Assistant Government Agent; [§ 27, 54 of 1942.] " local authority " means a Municipal Council, Urban Council, or Town Council; [§ 27, 60 of 1961.] " Local Government Service" means the Local Government Service constituted by the Local Government Service Ordinance ; " minor headman " means any headman other than a divisional revenue officer and includes a muhandiram, korala, Udayar, Vidane arachchi, or Grama Sevaka ; " plantation " includes any land on which tea, coffee, cacao, cardamoms, cinchona, or rubber is growing, and any coconut estate of over five acres in extent; " produce " includes the fruit, leaf, bark, latex, and roots of any plant or tree cultivated on a plantation ; "village area" means a portion of a divisional revenue officer's division declared to be a village area by Order under section 3 or deemed by virtue of any written law to be a village area under this Ordinance ; "Grama Sevaka" includes a police vidane or ganarachi; "Voter" in relation to any ward means a person entitled under section 9 to vote at an election of a member for that ward ; "Ward " means a ward of a village area within the meaning of section 8. |
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