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Substituted by Act No.18 of 1965. 14 [Act No. II of 1956] (56) ‗water closet‘ means a closet which has a separate fixed receptacle connected to a drainage system and separate provision for flushing from a supply of clean water either by the operation of mechanism or by automatic action; (57) ‗water connection‘ includes— (a) any tank, cistern, hydrant, stand-pipe, meter or tap situated on any private property and connected with a water-main or pipe belonging to the Corporation; and (b) the water-pipe connecting such tank, cistern, hydrant, stand-pipe, meter or tap with such water-main or pipe; (58) ‗water-course‘ includes any river, stream or channel; (59) ‗water for domestic purposes‘ shall not include water for cattle, or for horses, or for washing vehicles, when the cattle, horses or vehicles are kept for sale or hire, or by a common carrier, and shall not include water for any trade, manufacture or business, or for building purposes, or for watering gardens, or for fountains or for any ornamental or mechanical purposes; (60) ‗water works‘ includes a lake, stream, spring, well, pump, reservoir, cistern, tank, duct whether covered or open, sluice, mainpipe, culvert, engine, water-truck, hydrant, stand-pipe, conduit and machinery, land, building or thing for supplying or used for supplying water or for protecting services of water supply. [Act No. II of 1956] 15 21[3. (1) There shall be established a Municipal Corporation for the City of Greater Hyderabad with effect from the date of notification under sub-section (3): Provided nothing in this sub-section shall prevent the Government form establishing, with a view to secure efficiency and economy in the Municipal administration, a single Corporation for Greater Hyderabad on such terms and conditions as may be specified in the notification published in the *Telangana Gazette in this behalf. (2) The Corporation established under sub-section (1) shall be a body corporate by the name of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and subject to any restrictions or qualifications imposed by or under this Act, or any other law, shall be vested with the capacity of suing or being sued in its corporate name, of acquiring, holding and transferring property, of entering into contracts, and of doing all things necessary, proper or expedient for the purposes for which it is constituted. (3) Government may, from time to time, after consultation with the Corporation, by notification in the *Telangana Gazette, alter the limits of the City as declared under clause (6) of section 2 so as to include therein or to exclude therefrom, the areas specified in the notification.