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In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, · (i) "Authority" means the Planning and DevelopmentAutho- rity constituted under Section 13 of this Act. (ii) "bettermeni charge" means the charge prescrited ia res- pect of an increase in the value of land resulting from the execution of a scheme; (iii) "board" means the State Town and Country Planning/ Board constituted under Sectiou 3 of this Act; (iv) "building" means any construction for whatsoever purpose and of whatsoever materials constructed and every part thereof, ll'hc:ther used for hurnau habitation or not, and includes plinth, walls, chimney, drainage-work, fixed platform, \erandah. balcony, cornice, or projec- tion, or part of a building or anything affixed there to, or any "all, earth-bank, fence or other construction enclosing or delimiting or intended to enclose or delimit any land or space; (v) ''building.operation" includes rebuilding operations, struc. tural alterations of or additions to buildings and other operations normally undertaken in connecticn with the construction or recons- truction of buildings; (vi) "Chiet' Town Planner" means a person appointed by the State Government to perform the duties of a Chief Town Planner of the Town & Couiltry Planning or any other officer ernpov ered by the State G0vernment as such Chief Town Planner LIDder this Act. Shor, tit:e extent and commence. menr, Definitions_ 2 (a) {b) the carrying out of works which affect only the i?:erior of a building or which do not mate1ially affect the use and :..i: eAicrnal appearance of the building; the carrying out by a local authority of any works v.i:::':; the boundiries of a rvad for the maintenance or :mp:c··? ment of the road, (c) the carrying out by a local authority any works fer :? purpo?es of inspecting. r?pairing or renewing. an) ??-"°' main pipes, cables or other appa1atus. incJi;diog the bre:;-..:::- ! open of any street or ether land for that purpose; .;.::.: (vii) "Chief Town Planning Officer" means the Officer appointed under section l 4(b) and shall be subordinate to the Chief T own PJln:Der and shall be under the control and supervision of the Chief ! own Planner. (viii) "development", '\\ith its grammatical ,ariations, means the carryin., out of building. engineering, mir.ing er other operations in, on, over or under land or the making of any material cbarge, in any building or land, or in the use of any building or land, and includes sub-division of any land; but does not include :- (d) the use of any building or other land within the cu:t:l..:.r= of dwdling house for any purpose incidental to tbe er::-::•- ment of the dwelling house as such; (ix) "develo,2!llent scheme" means a scbem repared under?.::- ? tion 29 and incliii es a plan or pans Ioget er wit e es..--r::;:::,! matter, if any, relating to such a scheme; (x) "engineering operation" includes the formation or laying c::1 of means of access to a road or the laying out of means of 9.;:;.:er supply or the laying out of means of electric, telegraphic or tele- phonic connections; 61 of 1948. (xi) '•factory" means a factory to which the provis;ons of the Factories Act, 1948 (Central Act No. 63 of 1948) shall apply; {xii) "hill areas" means such areas in the hill tracts of Manipur as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette. declare to be bill areas; (xiii) "industrial concern" means a factory workshop, mill or any concern of similar nature where materials are manufacrufed.u- paired, altered or processed; (xiv) "land" includes benefits arising out of land, an4 things attached to the earth or permanentlyfastened to anything attached to the earth; (xv) "Legislative Assembly" means the Legislative Assembly of Manipur; (xvi) "local authority" means a Municipal Board, Small Town Committee, Gram Pancbayat, Hill Areas District Council or any other Village Authority of a village in Manipur; (xvii) · ··Occupier" means an occupier of a land or building or any portion thereof and inchides a tenant, an owner in occupation 3 of (or otherwise using) his land, a rent free tenant of any land, a licensee in occupation of any land, and person who is liable to pay to the owner rent or any other changes for the use and occu- pation of any land; (xviii) "Official Gazet?" means the Manipur Gazette; (xix) "open space,, means any land, whether enclosed or not, which has been laid out for purposes of public recre:nion or lies waste or unoccupied, and in which the part covered b? buildings, if any, does not exceed voe-twentieth of it in area ; (xx) "Plan" means a Master Plan prepared under Section 22 of this Act; (xxi) ''prescribed" means prescribed by Rules made under this Act] (xxii) "re-constituted plot" means a plot which is in any way altered by the implementation of a development scheme. (xxiii) "road" means any highway, street, lane, pathway, alley, passage way, carriageway, square, bridge, whether pri\·ate or public, whether thoroughfare or not, whether existing or prcposed in any scheme, and includes all bunds, channels, ditches, drains, culverts, side-walks and traffic islands ; (xxiv) "State Government" means the State Government of Manipur; (xxv) "Zone" means any one cf the divisions in which the Master Plan areas may be divided for the purposes of uses of land or for the purposes of development under this Act; (xxvi) "Zoning Regulation" means a re!ulatioo made by the State Governmcn: in respect of a zone or a number of zones under a Master Plan. CHAPTER n State Town And Country Planning Board CClllStitution