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If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of the principal 4 Power to remove Act as amended by this Act, the State Government may, by order notify in the Official difficulties. Gazette. make such provisions or give such directions as appear to it to be necessary gr expedient for the removal of the difficulty. ema © Scanned with OKEN Scanner 130 GRAM PANCHAYAT [1953 : Ph. Act ty 2) “Director” means the Director of Pane . appointed under this Act ; hayats x T(t) wok Ok O% *] ; (g) “Gram Panchayat” means the Panchayat consti a tuted under *[Section 5 of] this Act ; _ “Government” means the State Governments of Punjab and Haryana and the Administrators of the Union territories of Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh in relation to the areas falling with in their territorial limits as specified in Part II of the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966. (Act 31 of 1966).] [(h) , (i) ““Panch” means a member of Gram Panchayat, se 6*) O® 6 © J or an Adallti Panchayat elected or appointed under this Act and in- cludes a Sarpanch ; _ Gi) A Panchayat means a Gram Panchayat and / includes an Adalti Panchayat J. s a Panchayat 7[(iii) “Panchayat Samiti’? means @ 7 Samiti constituted under the Punjab Pancieyt Samitis and Zila Parisha S and having jurisdiction over the Sabha area.] (j) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act ; building a (k) “public place” means any place, DU” . ° ° g tion O / structure situated within the jurists ic bas Gram Panchayat aroa to W free access ; ee section 3(1)- ) Act, 1953 (Puniab Act No- tClause (f) omitted by Punjab Act No. 26 of 1960, ‘Inserted by the Punjab Gram Panchayat (Amendment XLI of 1953), section 2 (7). SSubstituted by the Punjab Zila prishad Sabhas (Reconstitutio? and Reorganisation) Or amilis and Gra 5, panchayat S der, 1969. | ‘The word “Thana” omitted by Punjab Act XXX of 1954. ‘op 13 njab Act No. 76 of 1909 section 'The words “Panchayat Union” omitted by Pu ‘Inserted by Punjab Act No. 19 of 1963. | aA © Scanned with OKEN Scanner 1953 : Pb. Pb. Act IV] GRAM PANCHAYAT 13) (1) ‘public servant” s means a public ser m ery 21 of the indian Penal Code, 1 aa XLV all include a panch and a sarpach . 60, _ (m) ‘public street” means ) a pathwa bre Jane, square, court, alley Af eateus tn - eee which the public has a right to use ee 5 udes the drains or gutters on either | * : the land upto the defined boundary of y a putting property, notwithstanding an projection over such land of any veraida or other super-siructure ; : 11 (mm) ‘Sabha’ means a Gram Sabha established | | under section 5 ; (mmm) ‘Sabha area’ means an area declared to be a Sabha area under section 4 ; ] f(D) “Schedule” means the Schedule appen ct ; : (o) “sub-committee” means 4 sub-committee appointed under section 33 of this Act ; 2[(00) “Syb-Divisional Officer” means the Officer- in-charge of 4 Sub-Division of 4 District constituted for revenue and general purposes ;] “tax” includes a cess, duty, fee, rate, toll or other impost leviable under this Act ; (g) ‘‘village’’ means any local area, recorded as a yf revenue estate in the revenue records of the district in which itis situated ; (r) “watercourse” means any channel which 1 a maintained of the irrigators and 1 cupplied with water from any canal to whic i al and Drainage Vl" of 1873: he Northern eb a ne nals. Act the Punja inor Cana t, Act, 1879, 0 for the time being] I1l of 1908 zt 3 ther Act 1905, *[or any , all subsidiary works t the sluice cted with such ¢ conne hich water 1s supplied to ded to this such chann¢ : gaa aor ton mm); inserted by Punjab Act, 26 of 1960, section 3 (2) NeW ae (mm) and (nt 1954 ed by Punjab Ac ; ies ; ; t Samities and Gram sInserted by” the Punjab Zila Parishads, panchaya sabhas Insertstitution and Reorganisation Order, 1969, schedule secon © Scanned with OKEN Scanner 132 GRAM PANCHAYAT [1953 : Ph. Act ry (s) the expressions ‘“‘offence’’, ‘non-bailable offence, “cognizable offence’, ‘complaint’, “officer. in-charge of a police station”, and “nolice station” have the same meaning as in section 4 V of 1898. of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 ; (t) the expressions “decree”, — “‘decree-holder” ' “judgment debtor’, “legal representative” and “movable property” have the same meaning of IB. as in section 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 ; f (u) the expressions “landowner”, “tenant”, “rent” and “land revenue’’ have the same meaning as in the Punjab Land Revenue Act, XVI of 1887. 1887, [or any other Act for the time being in- force]. 2 Inserted by the Punjab Zila Parishads P anchayat Samities and Gram Sabhas Reconstitution and Reorganization Order, 1969, Schedule second. Me, oA © Scanned with OKEN Scanner 1953: Pb. Act IV] GRAM PANCHAYAT 133 {CHAPTER II] SABHA AREAS AND ESTABLISMENT AN D CONSTT- TUTION OF GRAM SABHAS AND GRAM PANCHAYATS