Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "Appellate Authority" means the authority appointed in accordance with section 19 of this Act; (c) "company" means the Geo-Spatial Delhi Limited, a wholly owned company of the Government, registered under the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956); (d) "Delhi" means the National Capital Territory of Delhi; (e) "development activity" includes construction activity, excavation activity and the like carried out either by any line department, local body, public authority, public and private agency for the purpose of rendering any public utility services like laying of cables, water pipe lines, sewerage lines, gas pipelines, etc; (g) "geo-spatial applications" include the applications developed to use the geo-spatial data to cater to specific governance needs of the Government; (h) "geo-spatial data" includes 3-dimensional Geo-spatial information system including land information system of Delhi comprising land revenue record data, land ownership, etc. along with urban information system comprising property details, property ownership, electronic transaction forms to be made available by any line department, local body, public authority, public and private agency; (i) "geo-spatial map" includes the 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional map of Delhi generated with the help of aerial photography, photogrammetry, created with 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional topology and texturing including ortho-photo vectorization, valuation, digital electronic model so as to provide 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional visualization of the projected area; (j) "geo-spatial system" includes all the hardware, software, spatial technology equipments for the control centres and monitoring centres with appropriate linking mechanism to the line department, local body, public authority, public and private agency; (k) "Government" means the Lieutenant Governor of the National Capital Territory of Delhi appointed by the President under article 239 and designated as such under article 239 AA of the Constitution; (l) "geo-portal" means the Delhi geo-spatial map server or software application for access of geospatial data and applications residing on an identified system of a control centre or a monitoring centre; (n) "monitoring centre" means the monitoring centre established in Delhi for monitoring live archives, buildings, real estate and other assets, for change detection in achieving and creating a local archive of the data collected through internet protocol camera installed or through any other mode; (o) "notification" means a notification published in the official Gazette; (p) "public and private agency" includes public or private electricity distribution companies, public or private telecommunication services, internet services providers and the like rendering services of public utility in Delhi; (q) "public authority" means any authority or body or Institution of local governance established or constituted (i) by or under the Constitution; (ii) by any other law made by Parliament; (iii) by any other law made by the Legislature of a State or Union territory; (iv) by notification issued or order made by the Government; and includes (a) a body owned, controlled or substantially financed by the Government; (b) a non-government organization substantially financed directly or indirectly by funds provided by the Government; and (c) an organization or body corporate in its capacity as an instrumentality of State as defined under article 12 of the Constitution of India, rendering services of public utility; (r) "regulation" means a regulation made by the Regulatory Authority under this Act, by notification; (s) "Regulatory Authority" means the Delhi Spatial Data Regulatory Authority constituted under section 12 of this Act; (t) "rule" means a rule made by the Government under this Act, by notification; (u) "Schedule" means the Schedule appended to this Act; (v) "utility mapping" includes the mapping and creation of a geo-spatial data base of on the ground, underground or over ground utilities, such as water pipelines, sewerage lines, cables, mapped using ground penetrating radar and ground survey and other form of data applications, surveillance system and other allied information.