Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:- (a) “Director” means the Director of the Mizoram Fire & Emergency Services appointed under section 4 of this Act; (b) “Fire fighting property” includes – (i) lands and buildings used as fire stations, (ii) fire engines, equipment, tools, implements and things whatsoever used for fire fighting, (iii) motor vehicles and other means of transport used in connection with fire fighting, and (iv) uniforms and badges of rank. (c) “Fire-Station” means any post or place declared, generally or specially, by the State Government to be a Fire-Station; (d) “Force” means Mizoram Fire & Emergency Service personnel maintained under this Act; (e) ‘member of fire brigade’ includes persons engaged in the Mizoram Fire & Emergency Services and Volunteers in the Auxiliary Fire Brigade; (f) “Officer-in-charge of the Fire Station” includes when the officer-in-charge of the Fire Station is absent from the station or unable from illness or other cause to perform his duties, the fire officer present at the station who is next in rank to such officer; (g) ‘Occupier’ means a person living in, or otherwise using, any land or building owned by him, or a person who, for the time being, is paying, or is liable to pay, to the owner the rent or fee, or is making, or is liable to make contractual payment to the owner for adjustment of rent or fee, or damages, or any portion thereof, on account of occupation of any land or building, and includes a rent free tenant; (h) ‘Owner’ means a person who, for the time being, is receiving the rent of any land or building or any part of any land or building, either on his own account or as an agent of a person, or trustee for a society for any religious or charitable purpose, or as a receiver who would receive such rent if the land or the building or any part thereof were let to a tenant; (i) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act.