Chapter I Chapter I

Preliminary

Short title, extent and commencement.-

1. (1) This Act may be called the Gujarat Water Supply and Sewerage Board Act, 1978.
2. (2) It extends to the whole of the State of Gujarat.
3. (3) This section shall come into force at once, and the remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

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

1. (1) "Board" means the Gujarat Water Supply and Sewerage Board constituted under section 3;
2. (2) "bye-laws" means bye-laws made under this Act;
3. (3) "Cantonment" means a Cantonment as defined in the Cantonments Act, 1924;
4. (4) "Cess-pool" includes a settlement tank or other tank for the reception or disposal of foul matter from buildings;
5. (5) "City" means a city as defined in the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949;
6. (6) "Communication Pipe" means any pipe or system of pipes along with all fittings thereto by means of which water is supplied to any premises from the main;
7. (7) "Consumer" means any person supplied with water or provided with sewer connection by the Board or any local body;
8. (8) "Domestic Sewage" means waste water from residential kitchens, bathroom and toilets;
9. (9) "Drain" means a sewer, tunnel, pipe, ditch, channel or gutter or any other device for carrying off sullage, sewage, storm water or waste water;
10. (10) "Ferrule" means a ferrule employed for making connection from the water main the communication pipe;
11. (11) "Gujarat Public Health Engineering Service" means the Gujarat Public Health Engineering Service of the State Government;
12. (12) "Local Area" means an area under the jurisdiction of a local body;
13. (13) "Local Body" includes a municipal corporation, a municipality, a gram panchayat, a nagar panchayat, a notified area committee or any other body constituted under any law for the time being in force for local self-government;
14. (14) "Municipality" means a municipality as defined in the Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963;
15. (15) "Non-Official Member" means a member of the Board other than an ex-officio member;
16. (16) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules;
17. (17) "Regulations" means regulations made under this Act;
18. (18) "Rules" means rules made under this Act;
19. (19) "Sewage" means night-soil and other contents of water closets, latrines, privies, urinals, cess-pools or drains including trade effluents;
20. (20) "Sewer" means a closed conduit for carrying sewage or sullage;
21. (21) "Sewerage" means a system of collection of sewage from a community;
22. (22) "State Government" means the Government of Gujarat;
23. (23) "Street" includes any way, road, lane, square, court, alley, gully, passage, whether a thoroughfare or not and whether built upon or not, over which the public have a right of way and also the roadway or footway over any bridge or causeway;
24. (24) "Water Supply" means a system of providing water to a community or any area;
25. (25) "Year" means the financial year.