Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwire requires, — (a) “Administrator” means any person desig. ~ nated by the [Central Government] by noti- fication in the official gazette for performin the functions of an administrator under this Act; (6) “amenity” includes roads, water-supply, street lighting, drainage, Sewerage, cattle-sheds, ware- houses, public — lavatories, bathrooms, public buildings, horticulture, landscaping and any other public utility as may be prescribed ; (c) “building” means any construction or part of a construction which is intended to be used for residential, commercial, industrial or other pur- poses, whether in actual use or not and in- cludes any out-house, Structure, stable, cattle- Shed, garage, hut, platform and plinth; (d) “Commissioner” will have the meanin g assigned to him in the Colonization of Government Lands (Punjab) Act, 1912: (e) “erect or re-erect 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 orignally constructed for human habi- tation, (iii) the conversion into more than one place for human habitation of building originally constructed as one such place, SS ere Substituted for the words ‘State Government” by the Punjab Reorganisation (Chandigarh) (Adaptation of Laws on State and Comment Subjects) Orders, 1968. ———" 0: Pb. Act IH] New Manpi Townsiips 196 (DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION) ore (iv) the conversion of two or more places of human habitation into a greater number cf such places, (vy) such alterations of a building as affect an alteration of its drainage or sanitary arrange- ments, or materially affect its security, (vi) the addition of any rooms, buildings, out- houses or other strucutres to any building, (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 land, and (viii) the construction of any overhanging struc- ture over any street or public place or the enclosing of any space intended to be kept open; (f) “new mandi township” means any area declared to be a new mandi township by the [Central Government] under sub-section (1) of section 3; (g) “occupier” means a person, including a firm or other body of individuals, whether incorporat- ed or not,who occupies a site or building trans- ferred under this Act, and includes his succes- sors and assigns; (h) “prescribed” means prescribed by: rules made under this Act; (i) “site” means any land which is transferred by the 1Central Government] under section 3; (j) “‘transferee”means 4 person (including a firm or other body of individuals, whether incorporated or not) to whom a site or building is sold, leased or transferred in any manner whatsoever undet this Act, and includes his successors and assigns, : a“ . ' ” 2 jab Reorganisation 1Substituted for the words ‘‘State Gov ernment’ by the Punja (Chandigarh) (Adaptation of Laws on State and Concurrent Subjects) Order, 1968, 636 New MANDI TOWNSHIPS [1959 : Ph. Acq i (DEVELOPMENT AND REGULATION) ] Power of Certral