Definitions

In this Regulation, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "cattle" includes elephants, camels, horses, asses, mules, sheep goats and swine; (b) "Chief Commissioner" means the Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; (c) "Official Gazette" means the Andaman and Nicobar Gazette; (d) "place" means any area whether open or enclosed and includes a building, a tent, a booth or other erection, whether permanent or temporary; (e) "place of public amusement" means any place where music, singing, dancing, or any diversion or game, or the means of carrying on the same, is provided and to which the public are admitted either on payment of money or with the intention that money may be collected from those admitted and includes a race course, circus, theatre, music hall, billiard room, bagatelle room, gymnasium, fencing school, swimming pool or dancing hall; (f) "place of public entertainment" means any place where the public are admitted, and where any kind of food or drink is supplied for consumption on the premises by any person owning, or having an interest in, or managing, such place and includes a refreshment room, eating-house, coffee-house, liquor-house, boarding-house, lodging-house, hotel, tavern, or wine, beer, spirit, arrack, toddy, ganja, bhang or opium shop or a shop where any kind of food or drink is supplied to the public for consumption in or near such shop; (g) "public place" includes the precincts of every public building or monument, and all places accessible to the public for drawing water, washing or bathing or for the purpose of recreation; (h) "street" includes any highway, bridge, way over a causeway, viaduct, arch or any road, lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage accessible to the public, whether a thoroughfare or not; (i) "vehicle" means any carriage, cart, van, dray, truck, hand cart or other conveyance of any description and includes a bicycle, a tricycle, a rickshaw, an automatic car, a vessel or an aeroplane.