Chapter I PRELIMINARY

1.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park World Heritage Area Management Authority Act, 2006.
2. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of the Act.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -

1. (a) "amenity" includes roads, bridges, streets, transport, lighting, water and electricity supply, sewerage, drainage, public works, open spaces, recreational grounds, parks and other conveniences, services or utilities;
2. (b) "appointed day" means the day appointed for bringing into force all or any of the provisions of the Act;
3. (c) "Authority" means the Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park World Heritage Area Management Authority established under section 3;
4. (d) "Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the authority;
5. (e) "Chief Executive Officer" means an Officer appointed as such under sub-section

1. (1) of section 8;
   • (f) "Core Area Zone" and 'Buffer Zone' mean such areas as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify;
   • (g) "development" with its grammatical variation means the carrying out of building, engineering or other operations in or over or under any land or the making of any material change in any building, or land or in the use of any building, or land and includes redevelopment and forming of layouts and sub-division of any land including amenities;
   • (h) "Fund" means the fund of the Authority;
     • (i) "Heritage Area" means the whole of the area comprising the Core Area Zone and Buffer Zone including the area notified or as may be notified from time to time under the Gujarat Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1965 in the Core Area Zone and Buffer Zone but excluding the area notified as 'protected area' under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 and the areas declared as a reserved forest under the Indian Forest Act, 1927 and the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980;
   • (j) "Local Authority" means a municipal Corporation, Municipality or panchayat constituted under relevant local authority law;
   • (k) "Land" includes benefits arising out of land and things attached to the earth permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth;
   • (l) 'prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
   • (m) "relevant local authority law" means the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949, the Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963 or the Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993;
   • (n) the words and expression used but not defined in this Act shall have meanings respectively assigned to them in the Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976.