In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) ‘Act’ means the Goa Sewerage System and Sanitation Services Management Act, 2008 (Goa Act 14 of 2009);
(b) ‘building sewerage’ shall mean the system of pipes, channels, conduits, chambers, gully traps and manholes conveying wastewater from the building to the nearest inspection chamber or manhole on public sewer;
(c) ‘person’ shall include consumer, occupier and owner;
(d) ‘public places’ shall include bus stands, railway stations, markets, hospitals, clinics, health institutions, educational institutions, libraries, court buildings, recreational and sports complexes, places of worship, religious institutions, dairies, slaughter houses, dhobi-ghats, hotels, theatres, auditoria, concert halls, public offices where the general public have free access, eating places.
(e) ‘section’ means section of the Act;
(f) ‘wastewater’ shall include sewage, liquid or liquefied discharges from public places, leaches and commercial or trade effluents from shops and buildings. Words and expressions used herein but not defined shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Act.