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Enforced vide SRO-164 dated 28th May, 1998. (6) “Chief Executive Officer” means Chief Executive Officer appointed under the provisions of this Act and includes an officer empowered under this Act, to exercise, perform or discharge any of the powers, duties or functions of Chief Executive Officer ; (7) “development” with grammatical variations means the carrying out of building, engineering, quarrying or extraction of manufacture of building materials or other operations in, on, over or under the land, or erecting or re-erecting of any building on land or over water making any physical change in or on land and includes re- development ; (8) “engineering operation” includes the formation or laying out of means of access to a road or the laying out of main water supply or laying out of a drain or electric supply ; (9) “erect or re-erect” any building includes–– (a) any material alteration or enlargement of any building ; (b) mooring or installing of any boat or house-boat in the river or lake falling within the jurisdiction of any Authority ; (c) the conversion by structural alteration into a place for human habitation of any building not originally constructed for human habitation ; (d) the conversion into more than one place for human habitation of a building originally constructed as one such place ; (e) the conversion of two or more places of human habitation into a greater number of such places ; (f) such alteration of a building as affects an alteration in its drainage or sanitary arrangements or affects its stability ; (g) the addition of any room, building, out-house or other struc- ture to any building ; (h) the construction of a wall adjoining any street or land not belonging to the owner of the wall, of a door opening on to such stree ; and (i) reconstruction of a building or a portion thereof, by means of props, commonly known as “PAND-PAND” in Kashmir Valley ; (10) “gazette” means the Government Gazette published under the authority of the Jammu and Kashmir Government ; (11) “land” shall include land which is built upon or covered with water ; (12) “local area” means any area declared to be a local area under sub- section (1) of section 3 of the Jammu and Kashmir Development Act, 1970, 1[x x x x x] ; (13) “Minister” means the Minister Incharge, Housing and Urban Development Department or any other Minister notified by the Government for purposes of this Act ; (14) “occupier” means any person who for the time being pays or is liable to pay to the owner the rent or any portion of the rent and includes an owner living in or otherwise using his own land or building and also a rent free tenant ; (15) “owner” when used in reference to any land or building, includes the person for the time being receiving the rent of the land or building or of any part of the land or building whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any person or society or/for any religious or charitable purpose, or as receiver who would soreceive such rent after the land, building or part thereof, as the case may be, is let to a tenant ; (16) “plan” means master plan and includes zonal plan prepared under the Jammu and Kashmir Development Act, 1970 ; and (17) “regulation” means a regulation made under this Act, by the Authority constituted under section 3.