Definitions

Definitions In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

1. (1) "agriculture" includes horticulture, farming, growing of crops, fruits, vegetables, flowers, grass, fodder, trees any kind of cultivation of soil, breeding and keeping of livestock (including cattle, horses, donkeys, mules, pigs, fish and poultry) and the use of land which is ancillary to the farming of land or any other agricultural purpose but does not include the use of land as a garden which is an appendage to a building or the cutting and preservation of wood or the growing of trees and such other fruit trees as are not of a kind which may be described as agricultural produce;
2. (2) "the New Capital" means the new capital of the State of Gujarat;
3. (3) "Collector" means the Collector of the district in which the periphery or any part thereof is situate and includes any officer appointed by the State Government to perform all or any of the functions of the Collector under this Act;
4. (4) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the division in which the periphery or any part thereof is situate;
5. (5) "erect or re-erect any building" has the same meaning as is assigned to it in the Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963 (Gujarat 34 of 1964);
6. (6) "periphery" means the area within such distance of the New Capital as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf;
7. (7) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
8. (8) "road" means any highway, street, lane, pathway, alley, or bridge, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of passage or access or have passed and had access uninterruptedly for a period of twenty years and includes all carriageways, footways, pavements, berms, drains and embankments of such road.