Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (i) "Cess pool" includes a settlement tank or other tank to receive or dispose of foul matters from any premises; (ii) "Chief Engineer-cum-Secretary" means the Chief Engineer-cum-Secretary to the Government of Sikkirn in the Buildings, Public Health Engineering and Housing Department; (iii) "Competent -Authority" means the Chief Engineer- cum-Secretary, in the Buildings, Public Health Engineer- ing and Housing Department of the Government of Sikkim or any other officer authorised by him in his be- half; 1J 2 . (iv) "Department" means the Buildings, Public Health Engineering and Housing Department in the Govern- ment of Sikkim; (v) "Drain" means a sewer, tunnel, pipe, ditch, gutter or channel or any cistern, flush tank, septic tank or other device for carrying ofT or treating sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, sullage, waste water or sub-soil water and includes any culvert, ventilation - shaft or pipe or other appliances or fittings connected with such drain, and any ejectors, compressed air mains, sealed sewage mains and special mechinery or apparatus for raising, collecting, expelling or removing sewage or offensive matter from any place; (vi) "Government Sewer main" means any pipe or system of pipes alongwith all fittings thereto laid by the State Government by means of which Sewage is transported from any premises to its final disposal point; (vii) "Occupier", in relation to any premises, means the following- (a) any person for the time being paying or liable to pay rent or any portion thereof to the owner in respect of those premises; (b) an owner who is ill occupation of those premises; (c) a tenant of those premises who is exempted from pay- ment of rent; . (d) a licensee who is in occupation of those premises; and (e) any person, who is liable to pay damages to the owner in respect of use and occupation of those premises; (viii) "Owner" in relation to any premises, means the person who receives the rent of the said premises or who would be entitled to recei ve the rent thereof if the pre- mises were let out and includes=- (a) an agent or trustee who receives the rent on account of the owner; (b) an agent or trustee who receives the rent of, or is en- trusted with the management of any premises de- voted to religious or charitable purposes; (c) a receiver or manager appointed by any Court of com- petent jurisdiction to have the charge of, or to exercise the rights of an owner of the said premises; and (d) a mortgagee in possession; (x) (xi) "premises" means any land part thereof; "prescribed" means prescribed by rules; "sewage" means night-soil and other contents of water closets, latrines, privies, urinals, cesspools or drains and polluted water from sinks, bathrooms, stables and other like places and includes trade effluent; and/or building or any (xii) "sewer" means closed or open conduit for carrying sewage, offensive matter, polluted water, waste water, or su b-soil water; "sewerage" means a system of collection of waste water from community from its houses, institutions, in- dustries and public places, pumping, treatment, utiliza- tion and disposal of such waste water, its effluent, sludge, gas and other products; (xiii) Vesting of nub- lie drab! ill the deportment, Right 4 Oll'ller or occupier to obtain Sewer Connection .. Chargesfor Sewerage sa- vices, L('1'1 of S~-'l-re- rog~ Tax, Assessment of annual value, ..., .) (xiv) "Trade Effluent" means any liquid either with or with- out particles of matters in suspension or dissolved therein, which is wholly or in part produced or dis-. charged in the course of any trade or industry, includ- ing agriculture and horticulture, but it does not include domestic sewage; and (xv) "User" means any person getting the benefit of any sewerage service fr0111 the Department.