Definitions

In this Act, unless there be something repugnant in the subject or context :— (a) “Government” means the [Central Government]; (b) “Prescribed” means Prescribed by rules made under this Act; (c) “State Tube-well” means a tube-well hitherto constructed, maintained or controlled or which may be hereafter constructed, maintained or controlled by the Government, and include all mechanical and electrical appliances, tools and structures appertaining to it and necessary for the abstraction of water from it; (d) “Tube-well” means any device for lifting water from below the surface of the ground by mechanical means operated otherwise than by human or animal power; (e) “Underground Water” means water under the surface of earth regardless of the geologic structure in which it is standing or moving, but it does not include water flowing in artificial underground streams.