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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (i) “Board” means the Jaipur Water Supply and Sewerage Board constituted under section 3; (ii) “bulk water hauling” means the physical transport of water through a pipeline or by a vehicle having a permanently mounted or detachable water tank; (iii) “CPHEEO” means the Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organization, a technical wing of Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India; (iv) “cesspool” includes a settlement tank or other tank to receive or dispose of foul matter from any premises; (v) “Committee” means any committee constituted under sections 14 and 15; (vi) “communication pipe” means – (a) where the premises supplied with water abut on the part of the street in which the main is laid, and the service pipe enters those premises otherwise than through the outer wall of a building on the street and has a stopcock placed in those premises and as near to the boundary of that street as is reasonably practicable, so much of the service pipe as lies between the main and that stopcock; (b) in any other case, so much of the service pipe as it lies between the main and the boundary of the street in which the main is laid and includes the ferrule at the junction of the service pipe with the main, and also – (I) where the communication pipe ends at a stopcock, that stopcock; and (II) any stopcock fitted on the communication pipe between the end thereof and the main; (vii) “domestic sewage” means the waste water from the residential premises, boarding and lodging houses, hostels, hotels, public places, offices and all other establishments as are not a part of any trade or industry, and arising out of personal and normal human activities such as drinking, bathing, ablution, washing and cooking; (viii) “drain” includes a sewer, tunnel, pipe, ditch, channel or any other device for carrying spillage, sewage, sullage, offensive matter, polluted water, waste water, rain water or sub-soil water together with pail depots, traps, sinks, cisterns, flush tanks, and other fittings appertaining thereto; (ix) “Fund” means the Jaipur Water Supply and Sewerage Board Fund constituted under section 18; (x) “ground-water” means the water which exists below the surface of the ground at any particular location; (xi) “Jaipur Urban Area” means the territorial area within the limits of Jaipur Nagar Nigam as notified by the Government under clause (xxxix) of section 2 of the Rajasthan Municipalities Act, 2009 (Act No. 18 of 2009) and includes such other areas as may be notified by the Government from time to time; (xii) “Licensed Engineer or Plumber” means a person licensed under the provisions of this Act as an Engineer or Plumber; (xiii) “local authority” means a Municipality or a Panchayat or an Authority, or Board or any agency entrusted by the Government with the control or management of water and sewerage systems in the Jaipur Urban Area; (xiv) “notification” means a notification published in the Official Gazette and the expressions “notify” and “notified” shall be construed accordingly; (xv) “premises” means any land or building or any part of land or building; (xvi) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (xvii) “main” means a pipe laid by the local authority, or the Board, as the case may be, for the purpose of giving general supply of water as distinct from supply to individual consumers, and includes any apparatus used in connection with such pipe; (xviii) “regulations” means regulations made under this Act; (xix) “rules” means rules made under this Act; (xx) “scheme” means any scheme relating to the provision of water supply and sewerage system and matters incidental thereto; (xxi) “service pipe” means so much of any pipe for supplying water from a main to any premises as is subject to water pressure from that main, or would be so subject but for the closing of some taps; (xxii) “sewage” means night soil and other contents of latrines, urinals, cesspools or drains, and polluted water from sinks, bathrooms, stables, cattle sheds and other like places, and includes trade effluent and discharges from manufacturers of all kinds; (xxiii) “sewer” means any device for carrying of sewage, sullage, rain water, offensive matter, polluted water, waste water or sub-soil water and includes a drain; (xxiv) “sewerage” means a system of sewers for collection, treatment or disposal of sewage and includes sewerage works; (xxv) “sewerage works” includes any sewer channel, duct, collection or treatment or disposal units, pumping station, engine, mobile collecting unit, and other machinery and any adjacent land not being private property and any land, building or other things for collection or treatment or disposal of sewage; (xxvi) “sink” with all its grammatical variations and cognate expressions in relation to any existing well or new well includes digging, drilling or boring of new well and deepening carried out in the existing well, for exploitation of ground-water; (xxvii) “street” includes any way, road, lane, square, court, alley, gully, passage, whether a thoroughfare or not and whether built upon or not, over which the public have a right of way and also the roadway or footway over any bridge or causeway; (xxviii) “supply pipe” means so much of any service pipe as is not a communication pipe; (xxix) “trade effluent” means any liquid either with or without particles of matter in suspension therein, which is wholly or in part produced in the course of any trade or industry carried on at trade premises, and in relation to any trade premises means any such liquid as aforesaid which is so produced in the course of any trade or industry carried on at those premises, but does not include domestic sewage; (xxx) “trade premises” means any premises used or intended to be used for carrying on any trade or industry; (xxxi) “water fittings” includes pipes (other than mains), taps, valves, meters, bath and other similar apparatus used in connection with the supply of, and used for conveying or storing, water; (xxxii) “water works” includes all lakes, tanks, streams, springs, pumps, wells, reservoirs, water trucks, mains, clusters, pipes, standpipes, hydrants and all lands, buildings, plants, equipments and machineries, bridges and things used for or intended for the purposes of water supply; and (xxxiii) “well” means a structure sunk for search or extraction of ground-water by any person, except by the authorized officials of the Government or Government of India, for carrying out scientific investigation, exploration, development, augmentation, conservation, protection or management of ground water and includes an open well, dug well, bore well, dug-cum-bore well, tube well, filter point, collection well or infiltration gallery, recharge well, disposal well, or any of their combinations or variations, except any manual operated device for extraction of ground water