Government of India Act 1935

11 (1) In this Schedule, in relation to Assam—

• " Small Town " means a notified area constituted under Chapter XII of the Assam Municipal Act I of 1923;

• " Bengali year " means a year ending on the last day of the Bengali month of Chaitra;

• " local rate " means the local rate assessed under the Assam Local Rates Regulation, 1879;

• " landlord " means a person under whom another person holds land immediately, but does not include the Government;

• " rent " includes rent in kind or partly in kind.

(2) Where property is held or payments are made jointly by, or assessments are made jointly on, the members of a joint family, the family shall be adopted as the unit for deciding whether the necessary qualification exists, and if it does exist the person qualified shall be, in the case of a Hindu joint family, the manager thereof, and in other cases the member authorised in that behalf by the family themselves:

Provided that any other member of any such family shall also be qualified if the proportion of the joint property, payment or assessment which corresponds with his share therein would be sufficient for him to be qualified if he held it separately.