Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (1) “fleet owner” means an operator holding a permit for one hundread or more stage carriages; (2) “month” means a calendar month; (3) “municipal area” means an area specified in the Schedule; (3A) “new capital area” means the area comprised in the new capital within the meaning of clause (c) of section 2 of the Gujarat New Capital (Periphery) Control Act, 1960; (4) “operator” means any person whose name is entered in the permit as the holder thereof and where stage carriage is used or caused or allowed to be used without a permit includes a person in whose name that vehicle is registered under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, or any person having the possession or control of such vehicle; and ‘to operate’ shall be construed accordingly; (5) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (6) “permit” means a permit granted or countersigned under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, authorising the use of a motor vehicle as a stage carriage or contract carriage in any part of the State; (7) “stage carriage” means a motor vehicle carrying or adapted to carry more than six persons excluding the driver, which carries passengers for hire or reward at separate fares paid by or for individual passengers, either for the whole journey or for stages of the journey, and includes such a carriage when used as a contract carriage within the meaning of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988; (8) “tax” means the tax referred to in section 3; (9) “Tax Officer” means such officer as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint to be the Tax Officer for the whole State or for any area or areas for the purposes of this Act, and the State Government may appoint more than one officer as Tax Officers for the whole State or for any area; (10) the words and expressions used but not defined in this Act shall have the meaning assigned to them in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and the rules made thereunder.