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Inserted by Act 10 of 2025 w.e.f. 10.01.2025. (k) “Local Authority” means a City Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council, Town Panchayat, Zilla Panchayat, Taluk Panchayat, Grama Panchayat, Industrial Township Authority, Bangalore Development Authority, Improvement Board, Urban Development Authority, Planning Authority, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Sewerage Board, constituted under any law for the time being in force; (l) “Notified area” means the area notified under section 10; (m) “Permit” means a permit granted under section 11; (n) “Rain water harvesting” is the technique of collection and use of rainwater at surface or in sub-surface aquifer; (o) “Registration” means a certificate of registration granted under section 12 and section 13; (p) “User of groundwater” means any person or group of persons or an institution including a company or an establishment, whether the Government or not who or which extract or use or sell groundwater for any purpose including domestic use made either on a personal or community basis; (q) “Well” means a structure constructed for the search or extraction of groundwater by a person or persons for drinking/domestic/industrial/commercial/agriculture use except by the authorized officials of the State Government or the Central Government for carrying 7 out scientific investigation, exploration, development, augmentation, conservation, protection or management of groundwater and shall include open well, bore well, dug cum bore well, tube well, filter point, collection well, infiltration gallery, recharge well, disposal well or any of their combinations or variations; (r) “Zone of saturation” means a subsurface zone in which all the pores or the material are filled with ground water under phreatic condition. CHAPTER –II CONSTITUTION OF THE AUTHORITY