Definitions

In this Regulation, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) 'Administration' means the Andaman and Nicobar Administration; (b) 'Administration' means the Administrator of the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands appointed by the President under 239 of the Constitution; (c) 'amenity' includes road, water supply, street lighting, drainage, sewerage, public works and such other convenience as the Administrator may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify to be an amenity for the purposes of this Regulation; (d) 'building' includes any structure, erection or part of a structure or erection which is intended to be used for residential, industrial, commercial or other purposes, whether in actual use or not; (e) 'building operations' includes rebuilding operations, structural alterations of, or additions to, buildings and other operations normally undertaken in connection with construction of buildings; (f) 'development' with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under land or the making of any material change in building or land and includes re-development; (g) 'development area' means any area declared to be a development area under sub-section (1) of section 11; (h) 'engineering operations' includes the formation or laying out of means of access to a road or the laying out of means of water supply; (i) 'master plan' means a plan which includes an outline, development plan, re-development or improvement plan of a development area and zonal development plan, prepared for any development area under this Regulation; (j) 'means of access' includes any means of access, whether private or public, for vehicles or pedestrians, and includes a road; (k) 'owner' includes the classes of tenants specified in section 141 of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Land Revenue & Land Reforms Regulation, 1966; (l) 'prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under this Regulation; (m) 'to erect', in relation to any building, includes— (i) any material alteration or enlargement of any building; (ii) the conversion by structural alteration into a place for human habitation of any building not originally constructed for human habitation; (iii) the conversion into more than one place for human habitation of a building originally constructed as one such place; (iv) the conversion of two or more places of human habitation into a greater number of such places; (v) such alterations of a building as affect an alteration of its drainage or sanitary arrangements or materially affect its security; (vi) the addition of any rooms, buildings, houses or other structures to any building; and (vii) the construction in a wall adjoining any street or land not belonging to the owner of the wall, of a door opening on to such street or land; (n) 'Town Planner' means a person appointed under sub-section (1) of section 3 to perform the duties of a Town Planner under this Regulation; (o) 'zone' means any one of the divisions in which the area to which this Regulation applies may be divided for the purposes of development under this Regulation; (p) the expression "land" shall have the meaning assigned to it in section 3 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.