In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) ‘Government’ means the Government of the State of Goa;
(b) ‘Collector’ means the Collector of the North and South Districts of Goa and includes any officer appointed by the Government to exercise and perform all or any of the powers and functions of a Collector under this Act;
(c) ‘defacement’ includes impairing or interfering with the appearance or beauty, damaging, disfiguring, spoiling or injuring in any way whatsoever and the word “deface” shall be construed accordingly;
(d) ‘Official Gazette’ means the Goa Government Gazette;
(e) ‘Notification’ means notification published in the Official Gazette;
(f) ‘property’ includes any building, hut, monument, statue, water pipe line, public road, structure, wall including compound wall, tree, fence, post, pole or any other -2- erection 1[except at places specified by the Government or local authority from time to time;]
(g) ‘public view’ means anything which is visible to public while they are in or passing along any public place;
(h) ‘public place’ means any place (including a road, street or way whether a thoroughfare or not and a landing place) to which the public are granted access or have a right to resort or over which they have a right to pass;
(i) ‘writing’ includes decoration, lettering, ornamentation, etc., produced by stencil.