Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Inserted by Act No.36 of 2007. [Act No. II of 1956] 9 (d) any person who is liable to pay to the owner damages for the use and occupation of any land or building; (37) ‗octroi‘ means a cess levied on goods at the time of their entry into the limits of a City for purposes of consumption, use or sale therein; (38) ‗offensive matter‘ includes- (a) filth, (b) sewage, (c) dust, house-sweeping, spittings, including chewed betel and tobacco, kitchen or stable refuse, pieces of broken glass or pottery-debris and waste paper; (39) ‗owner‘ means— (a) when used with reference to any premises, the person who receives, the rent of the said premises, or who would be entitled to receive the rent thereof if the premises were let and includes- (i) an agent or trustee who receives such rent on account of the owner; (ii) an agent or trustee who receives the rent of, or is entrusted with, or concerned for, any premises devoted to religious or charitable or educational purposes; (iii) a receiver, sequestrator or manager appointed by any court of competent jurisdiction to have the charge of or to exercise the rights of an owner of the said premises; and (iv) a mortgagee-in-possession; and 10 [Act No. II of 1956] (b) when used with reference to any animal, vehicle or boat includes the person for the time being in charge of the animal, vehicle or boat; 14[(39-a) ‗Population‘ or ‗population as at the last census‘ with all its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means the population as ascertained at the 15[last census] of which all the relevant and necessary figures have been published;] 16[(39-b) ‗packaged drinking water‘ (other than Mineral Water) means water manufactured, packaged, sealed, labelled and meant for commercial use for drinking purpose to the general public;] (40) ‗premises‘ includes messuages, buildings and lands of any tenure whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not and whether public or private; (41) ‗prescribed‘ means prescribed by rules made by Government under this Act; (42) ‗private street‘ means any street, which is not a ‗public street‘ but does not include a pathway made by the owner of premises on his own land to secure access to or the convenient use of such premises; (43) ‗privy‘ means a place set apart for defecating or urinating or both, together with the structure comprising such place, the receptacle therein for human excreta and the fittings and apparatus, if any, connected therewith, and includes a closet of the dry type, an aquaprivy, a latrine and a urinal;