Definitions

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.