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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- 1A[ * * * * * * * * * *] 2[(1A) " Assembly " means the Gujarat Legislative Assembly;] Short title, extent and commencement. Definitions. [1964 : Guj. 34 Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963 (2)"building" includes any hut, shed or other enclosure, whether used as a human dwelling or for any other purpose, and shall also include walls including com- pound walls and fencing, verandahs, fixed platforms, plinths, doorsteps and the like; 2A[(2A) “carpet area” means the floor area of a building excluding the area over which a wall whether outer or inner is erected;] (3) "cattle" means and includes bulls, bullocks, heifers, cows and their young, elephants, camels, buffaloes, horses, mares, geldings, ponies, colts, fillies, mules, asses, swine, sheep, ewes, rams, lambs, goats and kids; 3[(3A) "Central law" means the Representation of the People Act, 1950;] 3A[(3B) “chawl” means a building consisting of two or more tenements whether having common sanitary and other facilities or not and declared as such by the Director of Municipalities by notification in the Official Gazette;] (4)"Councillor" means a member of the municipality in a municipal borough; (5)"dangerous disease" means cholera, plague, small-pox and any endemic, epidemic or infectious disease by which the life of man is endangered; 4[(6)"Director" means the officer appointed for the time being by the State Government to be Director of Municipalities, Gujarat State;] (7)" the earlier municipal law" means— (a) the Bombay District Municipal Act, 1901, (b) the Bombay District Municipal Act, 1901 as adapted and applied to the Suaurashtra area of the State, (c) the Bombay Municipal Boroughs Act, 1925, (d) the Bombay Municipal Boroughs Act, 1925 as adapted and applied to the Saurashtra area of the State, and (e) the Bombay Municipal Boroughs Act, 1925 as extended to the Kutch area of the State; 5[(7A) "election" means and includes the entire election process commencing from the division of wards and all stages culminating into election of a councillor and it is always deemed to have meant and included the entire election process as aforesaid. (7B) "Finance Commission" means the Finance Commission constituted under article 243-1 of the Constitution of India;] (8) "Gujarati" means the Gujarati language, (9) "house-gully" means a passage or strip of land constructed, set apart or utilized for the purpose of serving as a drain or affording access to a privy, urinal, cess-pool or other receptacle for filthy or polluted matter, to municipal servants or to persons employed in the cleansing thereof or in the removal of such matter therefrom; (10) "Judge" means District Judge, Joint Judge, Assistant Judge, Judge of a Court of Small Causes, Civil Judge, or Joint Civil Judges; (11)"Land" includes land which is being built upon or is built upon or covered 43 of 1950. Bom. III of