(1) In this Act, unless otherwise required in the context-
(a) “Government” means the State government;
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(b) “Holding capacity” means the maximum number of streets vendors who can be accommodated in any defined location, area or vending zone;
(c) “Municipality” means a Municipal Corporation or a Municipal Council or a Nagar Panchayat, and includes such other body legally entitled to function as a local authority in any city or town to provide civic services and regulate street vending, and includes the planning authority, by whatever name called which regulates the land use in that city or town;
(d) “Notification” means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
(e) “No-vending zone” means an area or place or a location or a street or road designated as such by the Municipality or a planning authority where vending activities shall be prohibited;
(f) “Planning Authority” means an Urban Development Authority or any other authority in any city or town,by whatever name called, designated by the Government as responsible for regulating the land use by defining the precise extent of areas for any particular activity in the master plan or development plan or zonal plan or layout plan or any other spatial plan which is legally enforceable under the applicable Regional and Town Planning Act or the Urban Development Act or the Municipal Act;
(g) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act by the Government;
(h) “Scheme” means a scheme framed by the Government under section 3;
(i) “Specified” means as specified by the scheme;
(j) “State Nodal Officer” means an officer designated by the State Government to coordinate all matters relating to street vending in the State;
(k) “District Nodal Officer” means an officer designated by the District magistrate to coordinate all matters relating to street vending in the District;
(l) “Street Vendor” means a person engaged in vending of articles, good, wares, food items or merchandise of everyday use or offering services to the general public, in a street, lane, side walk, footpath, pavement, public park or any other public place or private area or from a temporary built up structure or by moving from place to place and includes hawker, peddler, squatter and all other synonymous terms which may be local or regionspecific; and the words ‘street vending” with their grammatical variations accordingly;
(m) “Mobile Vendor” means a person who sells goods or offers services, moving from place to place carrying wares on push cart or in bicycle or scooter or any other light motorized vehicle of less than 800 cc engine power or carrying basket on head, or in bags or contraption attached to own body, or may sell wares in moving buses, trains, house to house carrying goods on a cart or on own body for regular or casual customers;
(n) “Town Vending Committee” means the body constituted by the Government under section 4;
(o) “Vending Zone” means an area or place or a location designated as such by the Municipality in consultation, with the planning authority, in case there be one, for the specific use by street vendors for street vending and includes footpath, side walk, pavement, embankment, portions of a street, waiting area for public or any such place considered suitable for vending activities and providing services to the general public, and shall include restricted vending zone.
(2) Any reference in this Act to any enactment or any provision thereof, shall, in relation to an area in which such enactment or such provision is not in force, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, in force in that area.
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CHAPTER II SCHEME FOR STREET VENDING