Definitions - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:-

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:- (a) "Committee" means the Metropolitan Planning Committee constituted under Section 3; (b) "Government" means the State Government; (c) "Metropolitan Area" means an area having a population of ten lakhs or more comprised in one or more districts and consisting of two or more municipalities or panchayats or other contiguous areas, specified by the Government, by notification, to be a Metropolitan Area for the purposes of this Act; (d) "Municipality" means Nagar Panchayat, Municipality and Municipal Corporation as constituted, as the case may be, under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1965(Act VI of 1965); or the Hyderabad Municipal Corporations Act, 1955(Act II of 1956); the Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation Act, 1979(Act 19 of 1979); the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation Act, 1981(Act 23 of 1981), and the Andhra Pradesh Municipal Corporations Act, 1994(Act 25 of 1994): (e) "Notification" means a notification published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette and the word "notified" shall be construed accordingly; (f) "Panchayat" means a Gram panchayat or Mandal Praja Parishad and Zilla Praja Parishad constituted under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj Act, 1994(Act 13 of 1994); (g) "Population" means the population as ascertained by the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published; (h) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.