(1) This Regulation may be called the Dadra and Nagar Haveli Village Panchayats Regulation, 1965, Short title, extent and commencement.
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(2) It extends to the whole of the Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Administrator may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. In this Regulation, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "Administrator" means the administrator of the Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution;
(b) "building" includes a house, outhouse, stable, privy, urinal, shed, hut, wall (other than a boundary wall not exceeding eight feet in height) and any other structure, whether of masonry, bricks, wood, metal or any other material, but does not include a temporary structure erected on ceremonial or festive occasion or a tent;
(c) "land" includes land which is built upon or covered with water;
(d) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
(e) "octroi" means a tax on the entry of goods Into the area within the jurisdiction of a Panchayat for consumption, use or sale therein;
(f) "Panchayat" means a Panchayat established under section 3;
(g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Regulation;
(h) "public street" means a pathway, road, street, square, court, alley, cart track, foot-path or riding path over which the public have a right of way, whether a thoroughfare or not, and includes—
(i) the road-way over any public bridge or cause-way;
(ii) the foot-way attached to any such street, road, publiq bridge or cause-way;
(Hi) the drains attached to any such street, road, publio bridge or cause-way and the land which lies on either side of the road-way up to the boundaries of the adjacent property;
(i) "Sarpanch" and "Upa-Sarpanch" mean respectively the Sarpanch and Upa-Sarpanch of a Panchayat;
(j) "Schedule" means a Schedule to this Regulation;
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(k) "tax" means a tax, cess, rale or other impost, but does not include a fee;
(I) " term of a Panchayat" means the period for which the members of a Panchayat shall hold office under section 22;
(m) "Varishta Panchaya t ' means the Varishta Panchayat in existence immediately before the 11th day of August, 1961, as reconstituted from time to time in accordance with this Regulation;
(n) "village" means any local area declared under section 3 to be a village for the purposes of this Regulation.
CHAPTER II GRAM SABIIAS—ESTABLISHMENT AND CONSTITUTION OF PANCHAYATS AND ELECTIONS