Definitions

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context:-(1) “Authority” shall mean the Local or Regional Authority appointed by the State Government for the purpose of administering the Act. (2) “Advisory Council” means the Town and Country Planning Advisory Council constituted under section 3 of this Act. (3) “Betterment Fee” means the fee prescribed in respect of an increase in the value of land resulting from the execution of a Development Scheme. (4) “Building” means any construction for whatsoever purpose and of whatsoever materials constructed and every part thereof, whether used as human habitation or not and includes plinth, walls, chimney, drainage works, fixed platforms, verandah, balcony, cornice or projection, or part of a building or anything affixed thereto or any walls, earth bank, fence or other construction enclosing or de-limiting or intended to enclose or delimit any land or space. (5) “Building Industrial” means a building, which is wholly or predominantly used as a warehouse, factory, distillery, iron foundry and all other buildings put to any used permitted in the zone by an authorized scheme applicable thereto. (6) “Director” means Director of Town and Country Planning or any other officer appointed in that behalf by the State Government. (7) “Development” means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, or over the land or making of any material change in the use of any buildings or of land: Provided that the following operations or use of land shall not be deemed for the purposes of this Act to mean development of the land, that is to say: - (a) the carrying out of works for the maintenance, improvement or other alteration of any building, being works which affect only the interior of the building or which do not materially affect the use and the external appearance of the building; (b) the carrying out by a local authority of any works required for the maintenance or improvement of road, being works carried out on land within the boundaries of the road; (c) the carrying out by any 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; (d) the use of any building or other land within the cartilage of any dwelling house for any purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwelling house as such. (8) “Factory” means a place to which the provision of Indian Factories Act, 1948 (Act 3 of 1948) or any amendment thereof shall apply. (9) “Industrial concern” means commercial body, e.g. a factory, workshop and a mill, or any concern of similar nature where materials are manufacture, repaired, altered or processed. (10) “Master Plan” means a plan as defined under section 9 and shall comprise of items (a) to (e) of section 11. (11) “Occupier” includes any person paying or liable to pay the rent or any portion of the rent of the land or building in respect of which the work is due or compensation or premium on account of the occupation of such land and building and also a rent free tenant. (12) “Open space” means any land whether enclosed or not, on which not more than one twentieth part is covered with buildings and whole of the remainders ahs been laid out as a public garden or used for purposes or recreation or lies waste and unoccupied. (13) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act. (14) “Reconstituted plot” means a plot which is in any way altered by the making of a Development Scheme. (15) “Road” means and includes any highway, street, land, pathway, alley, passageway, carriageway, footway 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. (16) “Scheme” means a development scheme and includes a plan or plans together with the descriptive matter, if any, relating to such scheme.