Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Definitions.— In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:— (a) “consumer” means an individual, firm, company, society, Corporation or an association, who/which has obtained piped water connection from the PWD, or has his own arrangements for potable and non-potable water for domestic, commercial or industrial purposes resulting in generation of sewage or waste water and includes all those who generate sewage or waste water even without having any such arrangement for potable or non-potable water; (b) “dispute” means the dispute or difference arising out of any order, decision or documents issued or taken under this Act or the rules framed thereunder; -2- (c) “Dispute Redressal Authority” means an authority constituted under Section 7 of this Act; (d) “Government” means the Government of Goa; (e) “management” means administration, control, designing, planning, execution, implementation, operation and maintenance of sewerage system and sanitation services. (f) “notification” means a notification published in the Official Gazette of the Government. (g) “nuisance” means anything injurious or obnoxious to the community or to any individual and includes sewage or waste water or filth accumulation which in the opinion of the Executive Engineer of the PWD/Health Officer or any other authority authorized in this behalf, breed or likely to breed mosquitoes or otherwise injurious to health or property unless treated or disposed of effectively to prevent such accumulation; (h) “Official Gazette” means the Official Gazette of the Government; (i) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (j) “public sewer” means a pipe or underground conduit or such other device meant to carry untreated sewage and contaminated or polluted water generated from the existing building or construction site, existing in or under the adjoining street, lane or any kind of road or pathway and forming component of the sewerage system controlled by the PWD; (k) “PWD” means Public Works Department of the Government; (l) “sanitation services” means developing, operating and maintaining the facilities like pour flush water seal latrines, public toilets for educational institutions, community health centers, contaminated or polluted water treatment and safe disposal systems and other such facilities resulting out of programs in public health and sanitation sector implemented by the PWD for the State or any other authority authorized in this behalf; (m) “sewage” means night-soil and other contents of water closets, latrines, urinals, cess- pools, drains and polluted water from sinks, bathrooms, stables, cattle-sheds, discharges of filth, trade effluents, industrial effluents of specified standards from any kind of building as well as from public conveyances, markets, public places, religious places and educational institutions; (n) “sewerage system” means the system developed and constructed for facilitating collection, conveyance, pumping, if so warranted, of sewage and includes facilities of the treatment of sewage as per the standards specified by the Goa State Pollution Control Board and safe disposal of treated effluents and non-harmful sludge on land, water bodies or non- potable use, all under control of the PWD; (o) “State” means the State of Goa; (p) “Technical Committee” means a committee appointed by the Government consisting of prescribed officers entrusted with the functions as prescribed for the purposes of the Act. -3-