Subs. and be deemed always to have been substituted by section 2 (a) of U. P. Act No. 2 of 1979. — THE UTTAR PRADESH DEBT RELIEF ACT, 19771

. Subs. and be deemed always to have been substituted by section 2 (a) of U. P. Act No. 2 of 1979.

2 . Subs. and be deemed always to have been substituted by section 2 (a) of U. P. Act No. 2 of 1979. " debt " includes all liabilities owing to a creditor in cash or Kind, secured or unsecured, payable by a debtor or a small farmer under a decree or order of a civil court or otherwise, and subsisting on the date of commencement of this Act, whether due or not ; "debtor" means a landless agricultural labourer, a marginal farmer, a rural artisan or an urban worker who owes a debt, but does not include a small farmer ; "family", in relation to a debtor , means the debtor, the wife or husband, as the case may be of such debtor and the unmarried minor children of either or both of them ; "landless agricultural labour" means a person [residing in a village] 1 who on the date of commencement of this Act, does not hold any land and whose principal means of livelihood is manual labour on agricultural land and includes a person who follows any one or more of the following occupations in the capacity of a labourer on wages, whether paid in cash or in kind or partly in cash and partly in kind, namely — (a) farming, including cultivation and tillage of soil ; (b) dairy farming ; (c) production, cultivation, growing and harvesting of any horticultural commodity ; (d) raising of livestocks, bees or poultry; and (e) any practice performed on a farm as incidental to or in conjunction with farm operation (including any forestry or timbering operations) and preparation for market and delivery to a cold storage or other warehouse or to market or to carriage for transportation of farm products ; "marginal farmer" means a person residing in a village who on the date of commencement of this Act, holds agricultural land not exceeding one hectare of unirrigated land and whose principal means of livelihood is income from agricultural land or by manual labour on such land, and includes a person cultivating land as an asami or as a share -cropper ; (10) "rural artisan" means a person residing in a village who on the date of commencement of this Act, does not hold any agricultural land, and whose principal source of livelihood is manual labour connected with — (a) the production or repair of traditional tools, implements and other articles or things used for agricultural or purposes ancillary thereto ; or (b) the practice of any other craft either by own labour or by labour of the members of his family ;

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