For Reasons for Enactment see Gujarat Government Gazette, Extraordinary, Part IV, dated the 21st

June, 1976, page 170.

• • See Gujarat Government Gazette, Ordinary, Part VI dated the 22nd July, 1976. ** For Transitory provision see Sec. 7 of Guj. 4 of 1986. *** For Validating provision see s. 13 of Guj. 3 of 1995. † For Validating provision see s. 4 of Guj. 1 of 1999.

1. (iv) "area development authority'' means an area development authority constituted under section 5 1[and includes a local authority, designated as such under sub-section (1) of section 6 or Government company designated as such under section 6A];
2. (v) "authorised officer" means an officer appointed by the State Government under sub-section (2) of section 9;
3. (vi) "building operations" includes,-

1. (a) erection or re-erection of a building or any part thereof
2. (b) roofing or re-roofing of a building or any part of a building or any open space;
3. (c) any material alteration of a building as is likely to affect the alteration of its drainage or sanitary arrangement or to materially affect its security, or the construction of a door opening on any street or land not belonging to the owner;
   • (vii) "Chief Town Planner" means the officer appointed as Chief Town Planner to the Government of Gujarat;
   • (viii) "development", with all its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means the carrying out of any building, engineering, mining, or other operations in, or over, or under land or the making of any material change in any building or land or in the use of any building or land, and includes layout and sub-division of any land;
   • (ix) "development area" means an area declared to be a development area under section 3 or, as the case may be, an urban development area under section 22;
   • (x) "development plan" means a plan for the development or re-development or improvement of a development area ; 2[(x-a) "development right" means a right to develop the land or building or both on any land to be acquired under section 20 to the extent as may be decided in the development plan;
   • (xi) "engineering operations" includes the formation or laying out of a street or of means of access to a road or the laying out of means or water supply, drainage, sewerage, supply of electricity or gas, or of any other public utility service;
   • (xii) "final plot" means a plot reconstituted from an original plot and allotted in a town planning scheme as a final plot; 3[(xii-a) "heritage area" means the heritage area as defined in clause (i) of section 2 of the Champaner-Pavagadh Archeological Part World Heritage Area Management Authority Act, 2006]; Guj 28 of 2006.
   • (xiii) "land" includes benefits to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth;
   • (xiv) "local authority" means a municipal corporation constituted under the 4[Gujarat] Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949, as in force in the State of Gujarat, a municipality constituted or deemed to be constituted under the Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963, a committee appointed for a notified area under the Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963 or a gram or

Bom. LIX of 1949. Guj. XXXIV of 1964. Guj. 18 of 1993.

1. (xv) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
2. (xvi) "occupier" includes,-

1. (a) any person who for the time being is paying or is liable to pay to the owner the rent of the land or building in respect of which such rent is paid or is payable; H-86-1
2. (b) an owner living in or otherwise using his land or building;
3. (c) a rent free tenant; 1. These words, brackets, and figures were inserted by Guj. 2 of 1999, s. (2) (1) (i).