Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires :- (a) “Act” means the Uttarakhand Enterprises Single Window Facilitation and Clearance Act, 2012; (b) “Government” means the State Government of Uttarakhand; (c) “Enterprise” means an industrial undertaking or a business concern or any other establishment, by whatever name called engaged in the manufacture or production of goods, in any manner, or engaged in providing or rendering of any service or services; (d) “District Empowered Committee” means the District Empowered Committee constituted under section 3; (e) “State” means the State of Uttarakhand; (f) “State Empowered Committee” means the State Empowered Committee constituted under section 3; (g) “Nodal Agency” means the Nodal Agencies referred to in section4. (h) “Investor” means any person who invests capital in any new enterprise or in an existing enterprise for expanding, modernizing or diversifying for securing income or profit or common social good; (i) “Notification” means a notification published in the Uttarakhand Gazette and the word ‘notified’ shall be construed accordingly; (j) “Permission” means grant or issue of permission, no-objection certificate, clearance, allotment, consent, approval, registration, enrolment, license and the like, by any Competent Authority in connection with the setting up of an enterprise in the State of Uttarakhand and shall include all such permissions as are required under any Uttarakhand law until the enterprise commences its operation; (k) “Prescribed” means prescribed by the rules made under this Act; (l) “concession” means the facility or incentive, given by the State Government to an industrial undertaking or group of industrial undertakings; (m) “Competent Authority” means any department or agency of the Government, Local authority, statutory body, State owned Corporation, Gram Panchayat, Municipalities, or any authority or agency under administrative control of the Government which is entrusted with the powers and responsibilities to grant or issue permissions for setting up or commencement of operations of an enterprise in the State. (n) "in- principle approval" means the in-principle approval given by the State Empowered Commmittee or, as the case may be, the District Empowered Committee, on the application made by the Investor under section 8(1)(a) of the Act.