Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:-(a) "appellate authority" means any officer the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint for the purposes of this Act; (b) "local area" means a Municipality, a notified area or a town area constituted under any law for the time being in force and includes such other area as the Government may, from time to time, declare by notification in the official Gazette; (c) "local authority" means a municipal board, a notify area committee, or a town area committee constituted under any law for the time being in force and includes such other authority as the Government may, from time to time, declare by notification in official Gazette; (d) "owner" includes:—(i) every person who is entitled for the time being to receive any rent in respect of the land or building; (ii) a manager on behalf of such person; (iii) any agent for any such person; (iv) an occupier; (e) "premises" means any land or building or part of a building and includes the garden, ground and outhouse if any appertaining to a building or part of a building; (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by the rules framed under this Act; (g) "prescribed authority" means the Executive Engineer of the Public Health Engineering Department or such other officer as the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint; (h) "water works" means a lake, pump, reservoir, cistern, tank, duct, whether covered or open, sluice, main pipe, culvert, engine, hydrant, conduit and machinery, land building or any device for supplying or used for supplying water or for protecting sources of water supply and includes such other streams, springs and wells as the Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, specify.