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Passed in Hindi by the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. For Statement of Objects and Reasons see the Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh (Extra-ordinary), dated 10th August, 2005, pp. 2336 and 2350. THE HIMACHAL PRADESH GROUND WATER (REGULATION AND CONTROL 3 OF DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT) ACT, 2005 (f) “Government” or “State Government” means the Government of Himachal Pradesh; (g) “ground water” means the water which exists below the ground surface in the zone of saturation and can be extracted through wells or any other means or emerges as springs and base flows in streams and rivers; (h) “notified area” means the area notified under section 5 (5) of this Act ; (i) “Official Gazette” means the Rajpatra of Himachal Pradesh; (j) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (k) “rain water harvesting” is the process of collection and storage of rain water at surface or in sub-surface aquifer; (l) “royalty” means the royalty payable to the State Government under section 12 of this Act; (m) “sink” with all its grammatical variations and cognate expression in relation to a well includes any digging, drilling or boring of new wells or deepening of the existing wells; (n) “State” means the State of Himachal Pradesh; (o) “user of ground water” means a person or an institution including a company or an industry or an establishment, whether Government or not, who or which uses ground water for any purpose excluding domestic use; (p) “well” means a structure sunk for the search or extraction of ground water by any person, except by the authorized officials of the State or Central Government, for carrying out scientific investigations, exploration, development, augmentation, conservation, protection or management of ground water and shall include open well, dug well, bore well, dug-cum-bore well, tube well, filter point, collector well, infiltration gallery, recharge well, disposal well, or any of their combinations or variations, except any manually operated device for extraction of ground water.