Chapter I Preliminary

1. (1) This Act may be called the Rajasthan Special Investment Regions Act, 2016.
2. (2) It shall extend to the whole of the State of Rajasthan.
3. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint: Provided that different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to coming into force of that provision

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

1. (a) abadi or abadi area means abadi or abadi area or abadi land as defined under Section 103 of the Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 1956 (Act No. 15 of 1956);
2. (b) appellate authority means the appellate authority established and constituted under Section 67;
3. (c) Board means the Rajasthan Special Investment Regions Board established under Section 7;
4. (d) buffer for abadi development means the area adjoining a municipal area or abadi area of a village specified in a Master Development Plan for the development of abadi of the village or municipality, as the case may be;
5. (e) building means any structure or erection, or any part of a structure or erection which is intended to be used for residential, industrial, commercial or other purposes whether in actual use or not;
6. (f) Chief Executive Officer means the Chief Executive Officer of the Regional Development Authority;
7. (g) concession agreement means a contract of the' nature specified in the Schedule between a concessionaire and the Regional Development Authority, State Government, or a Government agency relating to a project;
8. (h) concessionaire means a private sector participant with whom a concession agreement is entered into by a Regional Development Authority;
   • (i) development, with its grammatical variations, means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, or over, or under any land (including land under river, lake or any other water) or the making of any material change in any building or land or in the use of any building or land, and includes re-development and lay-out, and sub division of any land and also the provision of public and civic facilities and projects and schemes for development of agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, forestry, dairy development, poultry farming, piggery, cattle breeding, fisheries and other similar activities, and 'to develop' shall be construed accordingly;
9. (j) development authority means Ajmer Development Authority constituted under the Ajmer Development Authority Act, 2013 (Act No. 39 of 2013), Jaipur Development Authority constituted under the Jaipur Development Authority Act, 1982 (Act No. 25 of 1982), Jodhpur Development Authority constituted under the Jodhpur Development Authority Act, 2009 (Act No. 2 of 2009) or any other similar Development Authority constituted by any Rajasthan law but excluding a Regional Development Authority constituted under this Act;
10. (k) development scheme means a scheme for the purpose of implementation of Master Development Plan or Zonal Development Plan or to provide for development of any area;
11. (l) economic activity means the activity and service relating to industrial, manufacturing, commercial, financial, processing, packaging, logistics, transport, tourism, hospitality, health, housing, entertainment, research, development, education, training, skill development, information and communication, management, consultancy and such other activity and service as may be prescribed;
12. (m) government agency means a Government Company or a body constituted under any Rajasthan Law or any other institution by whatever name called, owned or controlled by the State Government;
13. (n) Government Company means a Government company as defined under clause (45) of Section 2 of the Companies Act, 2013 (Central Act No. 18 of 2013);
14. (o) industrial area means an area of land developed by the Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation Limited or by any other government agency or person for setting up of industries and other supportive services including but not limited to commercial units, residential units, schools, institutions, hospitals, police stations, post offices, fire stations and banks and is approved as such by the State Government;
15. (p) infrastructure facility means road, bridge, bypass, underpass, water supply, drainage, collection-treatment-discharge and disposal of industrial, institutional and township waste, transport, electricity, post, telecommunication, disaster management, gas pipeline, and such other facility and includes any kind of public and civic facility;
16. (q) infrastructure project means any project for creation, rehabilitation, improvement, expansion, alteration or replacement of any infrastructure facility including financing, construction, operation, maintenance or management thereof, whether within a Special Investment Region, connecting a Special Investment Region or required for a Special Investment Region and includes any project which is linked to or from an infrastructure project;
17. (r) land pooling means an arrangement wherein a tenant or owner of any land or part thereof agrees to surrender his rights in the land or any part thereof in favour of the Regional Development Authority for any development scheme in lieu of such developed land or such cash compensation or such proportion of developed land and cash compensation as may be agreed between such tenant or the owner, as the case may be, and the Regional Development Authority;
18. (s) local authority means a Panchayati Raj Institution, a municipality, Rajasthan Housing Board, an Urban Improvement Trust, or a Development Authority constituted by or under any Rajasthan Law;
19. (t) Master Development Plan means the Master Development Plan prepared and approved in accordance with the provisions of Chapter V;
20. (u) municipal services means arrangement for public health, sanitation, solid waste management, drainage and sewerage, cleaning public streets or places, sewers and drains, lighting public streets or places, extinguishing fires, regulating offensive or dangerous trades or practices, removing obstructions and projections in public streets or places, securing or removing dangerous buildings, regulating disposal of carcasses of dead animals, naming streets and numbering houses, regulating the movement of dogs, cattle and other animals, and includes arrangement for such other services as are provided by a municipality in a municipal area;
    • (v) municipality means a Municipality as defined in clause (xlii) of Section 2 of the Rajasthan Municipalities Act, 2009 (Act No. 18 of 2009);
21. (w) Panchayati Raj Institution means a Panchayati Raj Institution as defined under clause (xvii) of Section 2 of the Rajasthan Panchayati Raj Act, 1994 (Act No. 13 of 1994);
    • (x) periphery means the adjoining area of a Special Investment Region declared as such under Sec. 4;
22. (y) private sector participant means any person other than, -
    • (i) the State Government or a government agency, or
    • (ii) the Central Government or any public sector undertaking of the Central Government, or
    • (iii) any joint venture between the Central Government and the State Government or a government agency;
23. (z) public and civic facility means open space, garden, zoological garden, natural reserve, sanctuary, play ground, stadium, recreation ground, public assembly ground, theater, place for public gathering or entertainment, museum, art gallery, public lavatory, green belt, housing, school, college and other educational institution, hospital and other health and medical facility, social welfare and cultural facility, parking facilities and all other kind of facility for public and civic purpose as may be prescribed;
24. (za) public private partnership means a participation contract between a Regional Development Authority and any private sector participant in connection with a development scheme;
25. (zb) Rajasthan Housing Board means Rajasthan Housing Board constituted under the Rajasthan Housing Board Act, 1970 (Act No. 4 of 1970);
26. (zc) Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation Limited means the Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 (Central Act No. 1 of 1956);
27. (zd) Regional Development Authority means a Regional Development Authority constituted under Section 9;
28. (ze) regulations means the regulations made by the Board and the Regional Development Authority under this Act;
29. (zf) rules means the rules made by the State Government under this Act;
30. (zg) Schedule means the Schedule to this Act;
31. (zh) Secretary in-charge means the Secretary to the Government in-charge of a Department and includes an Additional Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary when he is in-charge of the Department;
32. (zi) Special Investment Region means an area declared as such under Section 3;
33. (zj) Urban Improvement Trust means a Trust constituted under the Rajasthan Urban Improvement Act, 1959 (Act No. 35 of 1959); and
34. (zk) user charges means the charges imposed under Section 56.