CHAPTER I.—PRELIMINARY
1. Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Tripura Land Revenue
and Land Reforms Act, 1960.
(2) It extends to the whole of the Union territory of Tripura.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Administrator may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different areas and for different
provisions of this Act.
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Union territory of Tripura;
(b) “agriculture” includes horticulture, the raising of annual or periodical crops or garden
produce, dairy farming, poultry farming, stock breeding, grazing and pisciculture;
(c) “basic holding” means land used for agricultural purposes which is equal to two standard
acres in area;
(d) “Collector” means the Collector of the district and includes any officer appointed by the
Administrator to exercise and perform all or any of the powers and functions of a Collector under this
Act;
(e) “commencement of this Act”, in relation to any provision, means the date specified in respect
of that provision in a notification under sub-section (3) of section 1;
(f) “competent authority”, in relation to any provision, means any officer appointed by the
Administrator to be the competent authority for the purpose of that provision;
(g) “family” except in Chapter XIII means, in relation to a person, the wife or husband of such
person, his children, grandchildren, parents and brothers, and in the case of a Joint Hindu family, any
member of such family;
(h) “family holding” means land used for agricultural purposes which is equal to 6.4 standard
acres in area;
(i) “Government” means the Central Government;
(j) “holding” means a parcel of land separately assessed to land revenue;
(k) “improvement”, in relation to any land, means any work which materially adds to the value of
the land and which is suitable to the land and consistent with the character thereof and includes—
(i) the construction of tanks, wells, water channels and other works for the storage, supply
and distribution of water for agricultural purposes or for the use of man and cattle employed in
agriculture;
(ii) the construction of works for the drainage of land or for the protection of land from floods
or from erosion or from other damage by water;
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(iii) the preparation of land for irrigation;
(iv) the conversion of one-crop into two-crop land;
(v) the reclaiming, clearing, enclosing, levelling or terracing of land used for agricultural
purposes;
(vi) the erection on land or in the immediate vicinity thereof otherwise than on the village
site, of a building or house for the occupation of the under-raiyat, his family and servants or of a
cattle shed, a store-house or other construction for agricultural purposes or of any building
required for the convenient or profitable use or occupation of the land; and
(vii) the renewal or reconstruction of any of the foregoing works or such alterations therein or
additions thereto as are not of the nature of ordinary repairs;
(l) “minor” means a person who is deemed not to have attained majority under the
Indian Majority Act, 1875 (9 of 1875);
(m) “Official Gazette” means the Tripura Gazette;
(n) “pay”, “payable” and “payment”, used with reference to rent, include “deliver”, “deliverable”
and “delivery”;
(o) “person under disability” means—
(i) a widow;
(ii) a minor;
(iii) a woman who is unmarried or who, if married, is divorced or judicially separated from
her husband or whose husband is a person falling under item (iv) or (v);
(iv) a member of the Armed Forces of the Union;
(v) a person incapable of cultivating land by reason of some physical or mental disability;
(p) “personal cultivation”, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means
cultivation by a person on his own account—
(i) by his own labour, or
(ii) by the labour of any member of his family, or
(iii) by servants or by hired labour on wages, payable in cash or in kind but not as a share of
produce, under his personal supervision or the personal supervision of any member of his family;
Explanation I.—Land shall not be deemed to be cultivated under the personal supervision of a
person or a member of his family unless such person or member resides in the village in which the
land is situated or in a nearby village situated within a distance to be prescribed, during the major part
of the agricultural season;
Explanation II.—In the case of a person under disability, supervision by a paid employee on
behalf of such person shall be deemed to be personal supervision;
(q) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(r) “public purpose” includes a purpose connected with allotment of land to cultivators,
under-raiyats ejected as a result of resumption, land-less agricultural workers or co-operative farming
societies;
(s) “raiyat” means a person who owns land for purposes of agriculture paying land revenue to the
Government and includes the successors-in-interest of such person;
(t) “rent” means whatever is lawfully payable, in money or in kind, or partly in money and partly
in kind, whether as a fixed quantity of produce or as a share of the produce, on account of the use or
occupation of land or on account of any right in land but shall not include land revenue;
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(u) “standard acre” means one acre of „lunga‟ or „nal‟ or three acres of „tilla‟ land;
(v) “under-raiyat” means a person who cultivates or holds the land of a raiyat under an agreement,
express or implied, on condition of paying therefor rent in cash or in kind or delivering a share of the
produce and includes a person who cultivates or holds land of a raiyat under the system generally
known as „bhag’, „adhi’ or „barga’;
(w) “village” means any tract of land which, before the commencement of this Act, was
recognised as or was declared to be a village under any law for the time being in force or which may
after such commencement be recognised as a village at any settlement or which the Administrator
may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a village;
(x) “year” means the agricultural year commencing on such date as the Administrator may, in the
case of any specified area, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.