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Passed in Hindi and English by the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. For Statement of Objects and Reasons see the Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh (e-Gazette), dated 19th March, 2023, pp. 9037- 9038 and 9046. 3 THE HIMACHAL PRADESH SLUM DWELLERS (PROPRIETARY RIGHTS) ACT, 2022 (e) “basic civic services” means the services of drinking water supply, sanitation, drainage, sewerage, solid waste disposal, street lighting and urban environment improvement etc.; (f) “Collector” means the Deputy Commissioner of a district and includes the Additional Deputy Commissioner or the Commissioner of a Municipal Corporation or any officer specially appointed by the Government to perform the functions of a Collector under this Act; (g) “Committee” means the Slum Area Redevelopment and Rehabilitation Committee constituted under section 6; (h) “Director” means Director of Urban Development Department in the Government; (i) “Economically Weaker Section (EWS)” means the section of beneficiaries whose household income is up to such limit as may be notified by the Government; (j) "family" means husband, wife, son, daughter and any other person wholly dependent on the slum dweller; (k) “Government" or "State Government” means the Government of Himachal Pradesh; (l) “Government land” means any land owned or acquired by the Government or its undertakings and includes the land owned by an Urban Local Body; (m) “landless person” means a person who is a citizen of India, and does not own either in his own name or in the name of any member of the family any house or land, or land rights anywhere in India; (n) “member” means a member of the Committee and includes its Chairperson; (o) “notification” means the notification published in the Rajpatra (e- Gazette), Himachal Pradesh; (p) “occupation” means an occupation of a land by a slum dweller for residential purposes; (q) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (r) “proprietary rights” means the rights to land assigned to slum dwellers under section 3; 4 THE HIMACHAL PRADESH SLUM DWELLERS (PROPRIETARY RIGHTS) ACT, 2022 (s) “redevelopment” means improvement to the existing slum by providing basic civic services and facilitating improvement of housing conditions in accordance with the housing scheme framed by the Government from time to time; (t) “rehabilitation” means relocation of slum dwellers to other location in accordance with the housing scheme or policy framed by the Government; (u) “section” means a section of this Act; (v) “slum” or “slum area” means a compact settlement of atleast fifteen households, with a collection of poorly built tenements or temporarily built tenements, crowded together; and in dilapidated, unhygienic conditions, faulty arrangements of designs, lack of ventilation, light or sanitary facilities or any combination of these factors, which are detrimental to safety, health or morale and which are on the Government land in an urban area and notified as such by the Government; (w) “slum dweller” means a Bonafide Himachali landless person, who is a citizen of India in occupation and residing continuously in the slum area; (x) "State" means State of Himachal Pradesh; (y) “tenable habitations” means the habitations as decided by the Committee, where existence of human population does not entail undue risk to the safety or health or life of the residents or habitation or such areas are not considered contrary to public interest or the land is not required for any public or development purpose; (z) “untenable habitations” means such areas where existence of human population entails undue risk to the safety or health or life of the inhabitants themselves or where habitation on such areas is considered by the Committee not to be in public interest; (za) “urban area” means the area comprised within the limits of an Urban Local Body; and (zb) “Urban Local Body” means Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat constituted under the Himachal Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1994 (12 of 1994) or the Himachal Pradesh Municipal Act, 1994 (13 of 1994) as the case may be. 5 THE HIMACHAL PRADESH SLUM DWELLERS (PROPRIETARY RIGHTS) ACT, 2022 (2) Words and expressions used herein but not defined shall have the same meaning as assigned to them under the Himachal Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1994 or the Himachal Pradesh Municipal Act, 1994. CHAPTER-II PROPRIETARY RIGHTS