DefirixltanL—In this Act, unless the context otheiuisc requires, — — (ABOLITION) ACT

2. DefirixltanL—In this Act, unless the context otheiuisc requires, — (a) "appointed date" means the first day of September, 196l; (b) "cmolumeritl" means money salaries and all other kinds of remuneratmn gianted or continued in respect of, or annexed to, any hereditary village office: (c) "Misting law ielaling to a heicditai'y Village office" includes any enactment, rule, bye-law, regulation, order, notification, standing order or any other instrument or custom, usage at practice relating to a hereditary Village ollice, which is in force immediately before the appointed date; (d) "hereditaty village office" mean: a village office to which () emoluments have been attached and which I: held undei any existing law relating to a hereditary Village office. for the performance of duties connected with the administration or collection of the ievenue or with the maintenance of order or With the settlement of boundaries or other mutter of Civil administration nf a Village, whether the rervrce: originally appertaining to the office continue, d or have ceased, to be performed y or demanded, and by whatsoever designation the office may be locally known; (el "holder ofa hereditary Village office" means a pcrlon holding a hereditary Village office permanently or officiating in a permanent vacancy after a selection in accordance With the proceduie in force immediately before the appomtcd date, (f) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act.

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