Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Regulation, unless the context otherwise requires, - Definitions. (a) 'Administration· means the Andaman and Nicobar Administration; - , .. ,._:..::;,: ... . '· -·- ...... ~. -~ "'-''· ............... . , ..•. ·. '. 2 THE ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE, DECEMBER 19, 1994 Town Planner. (b) •Administration' means the Administrator of the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands appointed by the President under 239 of the Constitutioil; (c) •amenity' includes road, water supply, street lighting, draina!le. sewerage, public works and such other convenience as the Administrator mey, by notification in the Official Ga~ .. tte, specify to be an amenity fOI' the purooses of this Regulation; (d) 'building' includes any structure, erection or 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; (e) 'building operations' includes rebuilding operations. structural alterations of. or additions to, buildi11gs and other operations normally under- taken in connection with construction of buildings; (I) 'development' with its grammatical variations and cognate ex- pressions means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in. on, over or under land or the making of any material change in building or land and includes re-development; (g) 'development area' means any area declared to be a development area under sub-section (1) of section 11; (h) •engineering operations' includes the formation or laying out of means of access to a road or the laying out of means of water supply; (i) •master plan' means a plan which includes an outline, develop- ment plan, re-development or improvement plan of a development area and zonal development plan, prepared for any development area under this Regulation; (j) •means of access' includes any means of access, whether private or public, for vehicles or pedestrians. and includes a road; - (k) •owner' includes the classes of tenants specified in section 141 of the Andamari and.Nicobar Islands Land Revenue & land Reforma Reg ·I Regulaton 1 966; of t9se. (I) •prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under this Regulation; (m) •to erect', in relation to any building, includes- (i) •any material alteration or enlargement of any building; (ii) the conversion by structural alteration into a place for human habitation of any building not originally constructed for human habitation ; · . (iii) the conversion into more than one place for ·human habita- tion of a building oriQiflally constructed as one such place; (lv) the con.version of two or more places of human habitation into a greater nu.,.,ber of such places; · . (v) such at'tsrations of a builc!ing· as affecf an alteration of Its drainage or sanitary arrangementst or· materially affect its securitv; (vi) the addition of any rooms, buildings, houses or other struc- tures to any building; and (vii) the construction In a wall adjoining any street or land not belonging to the owner of the wall, of a door opening on to such street or lan~; (n) •Town Planner' means a person appointed under sub,sectlon (1) of section 3 to perform the duties of a Town Planner under this Regulation; (o) "'zone" means any one of the divisions in;Which the area to whiCh this Regulation applies may be divided for the purposes of development under this Regulation; (P) the expression "land" shall have the meaning assigned to It in section 3 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. CHAPTER II OFFICE OF TOWN PLANNER