Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires.- (a) "adjoining area" means such area as may be specified to be adjoining area under section 32: (b) "amenity" includes roads, water supply, street lighting, drainage, sewerage, public works and such other conveniences as the State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, specify to be an amenity for the purpose of this Act; Definitions. Short title. (c) "Board" means the Punjab Housing Development Board constituted under section 3; (d) "Board premises" means any premises belonging to, or vesting in, the Board or taken on lease by the Board or any premises which is entrusted to, or in possession or control of, the Board for the purpose of this Act; (e) "building materials" means such of the commodities or articles as are specified by the State Government by notification to be building materials for the purpose of this Act; (f) "building operations" includes rebuilding operations, structural alterations of or additions to buildings and other operations normally undertaken in connection with the construction of buildings; (g) "Committee" means any committee appointed under section 18; (h) "common purposes" means any purposes in relation to any common need, convenience or benefit of the locality and includes the following purposes: (i) Roads and parks, water courses or water channels, bus stand and waiting places, public lavatories, cremation and burial grounds, community halls, janjghar, public open spaces, public places of religious and charitable nature; (ii) Schools and play grounds, dispensaries, Health Centres and institutions of like nature, water works or tube-wells, whether such schools, playgrounds, dispensaries and institutions of such nature, tube- wells, etc., may be managed or controlled by the Board, State Government or Local Bodies or not; (i) "development with its grammatical variations" means the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under land or the making of any material change in any building or land and includes redevelopment; (j) "development area" means any such area declared to be a development area under sub-section (1) of section 23; (k) "housing scheme" means a housing scheme framed under this Act and includes any other such schemes entrusted to the Board by the State Government from time to time; (l) "land" includes benefits to arise out of land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth; (m) "Local Authority" means a Municipal Committee, Notified Area Committee, Town Improvement Trust, Cantonment Board, Zila Parishad, Panchayat Samiti or Gram Panchayat or any other authority entrusted with their functions under any law for the time being in force; (n) "means of access" includes any means of access, whether private or public, for vehicles or for foot passengers, and includes a road; (o) "member" means the member of the Board and includes the Chairman; (p) "owner" means in the case of unalienated land the lawful occupant and when such land has been mortgaged owner means the mortgagor; in the case of alienated land, owner means the superior holder; (q) "premises" means any land or building or part of building and includes, (i) the gardens, grounds and out houses, if any, appertaining to such building or part of a building; and (ii) any fittings affixed to such building or part of a building for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof; (r) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules; (s) "regulations" means regulations made under this Act; (t) "rules" means rules made under this Act; (u) "to erect" in relation to any building includes,- (i) any material alteration or enlargement of any building; (ii) the conversion by structural alteration into a place for human habitation of any building not originally constructed for human habitation; (iii) the conversion of more than one place for human habitation of a building originally constructed as one such place; (iv) the conversion of two or more places of human habitation into a greater number of such places; (v) such alterations of a building, as affect an alteration of it drainage or sanitary arrangements, or materially affect its security; (vi) the addition of any rooms, buildings, houses or other structures to any building; and (vii) the construction in a wall adjoining any street or land not belonging to the owner of the wall, of a door opening on to such street or land; (v) "State" means the State of Punjab. CHAPTER-II ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BOARD