Definitions

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, (i) "Authority" means the Planning and Development Authority constituted under Section 13 of this Act. (ii) "betterment charge" means the charge prescribed in respect of an increase in the value of land resulting from the execution of a scheme; (iii) "board" means the State Town and Country Planning Board constituted under Section 3 of this Act; (iv) "building" means any construction for whatsoever purpose and of whatsoever materials constructed and every part thereof, whether used for human habitation or not, and includes plinth, walls, chimney, drainage-work, fixed platform, verandah, balcony, cornice, or projection, or part of a building or anything affixed there to, or any wall, earth-bank, fence or other construction enclosing or delimiting or intended to enclose or delimit any land or space; (v) "building operation" includes rebuilding operations, structural alterations of or additions to buildings and other operations normally undertaken in connection with the construction or reconstruction of buildings; (vi) "Chief Town Planner" means a person appointed by the State Government to perform the duties of a Chief Town Planner of the Town & Country Planning or any other officer empowered by the State Government as such Chief Town Planner under this Act. (a) the carrying out of works which affect only the interior of a building or which do not materially affect the use and external appearance of the building; (b) the carrying out by a local authority of any works within the boundaries of a road for the maintenance or improvement of the road; (c) the carrying out by a local authority any works for the purposes of inspecting, repairing or renewing any sewers, main pipes, cables or other apparatus, including the breaking open of any street or other land for that purpose; (vii) "Chief Town Planning Officer" means the Officer appointed under section 14(b) and shall be subordinate to the Chief Town Planner and shall be under the control and supervision of the Chief Town Planner. (viii) "development", with its grammatical variations, means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, 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 sub-division of any land; but does not include: (d) the use of any building or other land within the curtilage of a dwelling house for any purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwelling house as such; (ix) "development scheme" means a scheme prepared under section 29 and includes a plan or plans together with the descriptive matter, if any, relating to such a scheme; (x) "engineering operation" includes the formation or laying out of means of access to a road or the laying out of means of water supply or the laying out of means of electric, telegraphic or telephonic connections; (xi) "factory" means a factory to which the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 (Central Act No. 63 of 1948) shall apply; (xii) "hill areas" means such areas in the hill tracts of Manipur as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be hill areas; (xiii) "industrial concern" means a factory, workshop, mill or any concern of similar nature where materials are manufactured, repaired, altered or processed; (xiv) "land" includes benefits arising out of land, and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth; (xv) "Legislative Assembly" means the Legislative Assembly of Manipur; (xvi) "local authority" means a Municipal Board, Small Town Committee, Gram Panchayat, Hill Areas District Council or any other Village Authority of a village in Manipur; (xvii) "Occupier" means an occupier of a land or building or any portion thereof and includes a tenant, an owner in occupation of (or otherwise using) his land, a rent free tenant of any land, a licensee in occupation of any land, and person who is liable to pay to the owner rent or any other charges for the use and occupation of any land; (xviii) "Official Gazette" means the Manipur Gazette; (xix) "open space" means any land, whether enclosed or not, which has been laid out for purposes of public recreation or lies waste or unoccupied, and in which the part covered by buildings, if any, does not exceed one-twentieth of it in area; (xx) "Plan" means a Master Plan prepared under Section 22 of this Act; (xxi) "prescribed" means prescribed by Rules made under this Act; (xxii) "re-constituted plot" means a plot which is in any way altered by the implementation of a development scheme. (xxiii) "road" means any highway, street, lane, pathway, alley, passage way, carriageway, square, bridge, whether private or public, whether thoroughfare or not, whether existing or proposed in any scheme, and includes all bunds, channels, ditches, drains, culverts, side-walks and traffic islands; (xxiv) "State Government" means the State Government of Manipur; (xxv) "Zone" means any one of the divisions in which the Master Plan areas may be divided for the purposes of uses of land or for the purposes of development under this Act; (xxvi) "Zoning Regulation" means a regulation made by the State Government in respect of a zone or a number of zones under a Master Plan.