I — KUDIYIRUPPU) ACT, 1976 — Roop's Law Assist Statutes

1 I (5) cc person interested ", in rclation to any kudiyiruppu or superstructure thcreon, includcs any pcrson claiming, or entitled to claim, an interest in the amount payable on account of the vcsting of that kudiyiruppu ihl i or g in the rural artisan; i ~hese words were substiluted for the words '<Gazetted Officer" by section 7 of the Tamil Nadu Kudiyiruppu Laws (Amendment) Act, 1982 (Tamil Nadu Act 35 of 1982). 1976: President$~ Act 381Rural Artisans (conferment of 659 Ownership of Kudiyiruppu) " plantation " means any land used for growing all or any of the following, namely, cardamom, cinchona, coffee, rubber or tea ; " plantation labourer " means a person whose principal means of livelihood is the income he gets as wages for his manual labour on plantation ; " rural artisan " means a person, other than a plantation labourer, who does not hold any land other than the kudiyiruppu and whose annual household income does not exceed two thousand and four hundred rupees and- (a) whose principal means of livelihood is production or repair of traditional tools, implements and other articles of things used for agriculture or purposes ancillary thereto ; or (b) who normally earns his livelihood by practising any craft either by his own labour or by the labour of the members of his family. Explanation.-For the purposes of this clause,- (i) a village carpenter, blacksmith, barber, washerman or potter or any other person engaged in any such calling or employment as the Government may, by notification, specify shall be deemed to be a rural artisan if he does not hold any land other than the kudiyiruppu and his annual household income does not exceed two thousand and four hundred rupees and he normally earns his livelihood by practising the craft either by his own labour or by the labour of the members of his family ; (ii) " annual household income " means the total of the annual income from all sources of all the members of a family ; (iii) " family ", in relation to a person, means the individual, the wife or husband, as the case may be, of h idiidl d hiid ihild y such individual and their unmarried minor children ; (iv) "minor" means a person who has not completed his or her age of eighteen years ; " Schedule " means the Schedule appended this Act ; pravision ltti of p alternative' site in certain casd.

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