Definitions

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires.— (a) “amenities” includes roads, water supply, street lighting, power supply, sewerage drainage, public works, tourist sports, open spaces, parks, landscaping and play fields and such other conveniences, as the State Government may, by notification, declare to be an amenity for the purposes of this Act; (b) “building” includes— (i) a house, out-home factory, offices or buildings relating to information technology, health, education, research and other social infrastructure, stable, godown, shed, hut-wall and any other structure whether of masonry, bricks, mud, wood, metal or any other material whatsoever; (ii) a structure on wheels or simply resting on the ground without foundations; (iii) a shop, vessel, boat, tent, van and any other structure used for human habitation or used for keeping or storing any articles or goods; and (iv) the gardens, grounds, carriages and stables, if any, appurtenant to any building, which is intended to be used for residential, industrial, commercial, institutional or for any other purposes, whether in actual use or not; (c) “building operations” includes re-building operations, structural alterations of, or additions to buildings and other operations normally undertaken in connection with the construction of buildings; (d) “Director” means the Director of Industries and Commerce, Punjab; (e) “infrastructure” includes industrial, commercial, social or residential infrastructure or any other facility necessary for the development of the Special Economic Zone; (f) “land” means any land including super structure situated within the Special Economic Zone; (g) “occupier” means a person, who occupies a site or building within the Special Economic Zone and includes his successor, assignee and administrator; (h) “off-zone supplier” means a unit located outside the Special Economic Zone providing goods or services or both to the Developer, Co-developer, occupier or resident; (i) “operator” means a person engaged by the Developer for providing infrastructure or any amenity in the Special Economic Zone; (j) “planning area” means a regional planning area, a local planning area or a site for a new town declared as such under section 56 of the Punjab Regional and Town Planning and Development Act, 1995 (Punjab Act No. 11 of 1995); (k) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (l) “project” means a Special Economic Zone project including any other project, essential for the sustainability of the Special Economic Zone as deemed appropriate and recommended by the Project Approval Committee; (m) “Project Approval Committee” means a Project Approval Committee, constituted under section 3; (n) “section” means a section of this Act; (o) “Special Economic Zone” shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (Central Act 28 of 2005); (p) “unit” means an enterprise, or part thereof, which occupies space within the Special Economic Zone carrying on business as approved by the Development Commissioner; and (q) “value addition” includes any activity that brings about a change in an article as a result of some process, treatment, or labour, and results in transformation into a new and different article with enhanced value so understood in commercial parlance and shall also include packaging. (2) The words and expressions used in this Act, but not defined, shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (Central Act 28 of 2005).