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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- a) ‗Tangible Heritage‘ means as dealt with in section 3; b) ‗Intangible Heritage‘ means as dealt with in section 3; Received the assent of the Governor on the 24th May, 2017. Short title, extent and commencement. Definitions. 2 [Act No.22 of 2017] c) ‗Committee‘ means Telangana State Heritage Authority, GHMC / HMDA Committee and the District Level Committees constituted under sections 6, 8 and 9 respectively; d) ‗Protected area‘ means any heritage site and the remains declared as protected area by or under this Act; e) ‗Protected heritage‘ means, the tangible or intangible heritage declared to be a protected heritage by or under this Act; f) ‗Conservation‘ means the process involved in the preservation of a Heritage structure building / site /precincts in order to retain its historical, architectural, environmental or cultural significance including the maintenance and according to necessity preservation, restoration or reconstruction or a combination of more than one of the above; g) ‗Preservation‘ means the maintenance necessary in order to maintain the Heritage structure building / site / precincts in its present state so as to prevent and retard any further deterioration from its present state; h) ‗prescribed‘ means prescribed by rules made under this Act; i) ‗Restoration‘ includes the means necessary to return the heritage structure building / site / precinct to its earlier state as might have existed prior to change occurred by way of demolition, removal, addition etc., as a result of the removal of accretions or reassembling the existing components or by the sensitive introduction of compatible materials; [Act No.22 of 2017] 3 j) ‗Maintenance‘ with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes the fencing, covering in, repairing, restoring, (landscaping and housekeeping) and cleansing of a protected heritage, and the doing of any act which may be necessary for the purpose of preserving a protected heritage or for securing convenient access thereto; k) ‗Director‘ means the Director, Heritage Telangana and includes any officer authorised by the Government to perform the duties of the Director; l) ‗Government‘ means the State Government of Telangana; m) ‗Notification‘ means, the notification published in the Telangana Gazette and the word notified shall be construed accordingly; n) ‗Owner‘ includes— (i) a joint owner invested with powers of management on behalf of himself and other joint owners and the successor-in-title of any such owner; and (ii) any manager or trustee exercising powers of management and the successor-in-office of any such manager or trustee; o) ‗Heritage Officer‘ means an officer of the Department of Heritage of the Government not lower in rank than Assistant Director of the department; p) ‗Competent Authority‘ means the Urban Development Authority/ Urban Local Body / Rural Local Body / any other authority which has the power to sanction 4 [Act No.22 of 2017] building permission under the existing laws as mentioned in section 7 (iii) and Director Archaeology as the case may be; q) ‗Heritage Building‘ means and includes any building of one or more premises or any part thereof and/ or structure and/or artifact which requires conservation and/ or preservation for historical and/or architectural and/or artisanary and/or aesthetic and/or cultural and/or environmental and/or ecological purpose and includes such portion of land adjoining such building or part thereof as may be required for fencing or covering or in any manner preserving the historical and/or architectural and/or aesthetic and/or cultural value of such building including rock formations; r) ‗Heritage Precincts‘ means and includes any space that requires conservation and/or preservation for historical and/or architectural and/or aesthetic and/or cultural and/or environmental and/or ecological purpose. Walls or other boundaries of a particular area or place or building or may enclose such space by an imaginary line drawn around it.