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Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— (a) “apartment” means a part of the property intended for any type of independent use, including one or more rooms or enclosed spaces located on one or more floors (or part or parts thereof) in a binding, intended to be used for residence, office, practice of any profession, or for carrying on any occupation, trade or business or for any other type of independent use and with a direct exit to a public street, road or highway or to a common area leading to such street, road or highway; (b) “apartment owner” means the person or persons owning an apartment and an undivided interest in the common areas and facilities in the percentage specified and established in the declaration; (c) “Association of Apartment Owners” means the association formed in accordance with the provisions made in the bye-laws; (d) “building” means a building containing four or more apartments or more than one building each containing four or more apartments comprised in the same property; (e) “common areas and facilities” include— (1) the land on which the building is located and all easements, rights and appurtenances belonging to the land and the building; (2) the foundations, columns, girders, beams, supports, main walls, roofs, halls, corridors, lobbies, stairs, fire- escapes and entrances and exists of the building; (3) the basements, cellars, yards, gardens, parking areas, shopping centres, schools, garages and storage spaces; (4) the premises for the lodging of janitors or persons employed for the management of the property; (5) installations of common service, such as power, lights, gas, hot and cold water, heating, refrigeration, air conditioning and sewerage; (6) the elevators, tanks, pumps, motors, fans, compressors, pipes and ducts and in general all apparatus and installations existing for common use; (7) such other common facilities as may be specially provided for in the declaration; (8) all other parts of the property necessary or convenient to its existence, maintenance and safety or normally in common use; (f) “common expenses” means expenses of administration, maintenance, repair or replacement of the common areas and facilities and all other sums assessed against the apartment owners by Association of the apartment owners; 1 Vide Notification No. F. 1 (tyLaw/Leg/88, dated 9-1-1989, published in the Tripura Gazette, Extraordinary, dated 12-6-1989. (g) “common profits” means the balance of all income, rents, profits and revenues from the common areas and facilities remaining after the deduction of the common expenses; (h) “Competent authority” means such officer not below the rank of a Deputy Collector, as may be appointed by the State Government by notification in the official Gazette; (i) “declaration” means the instrument by which the property is submitted to the provisions of this Act as hereinafter provided; (j) “limited common areas and facilities” means those common areas and facilities which may be designated in the declaration as reserved for use of certain apartment or apartments to the exclusion of the other apartments; (k) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (l) “property” comprises the land, the building and the common areas and facilities.