(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “Act” means the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 (7 of 2014) of Government of India ;
(b) “Chief Executive Officer” means an officer incharge of the Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council, Municipal Committee, as the case may be ;
(c) “Form” means form appended to these rules ;
(d) “Grievance Redressal Committee” means the committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 20 of the Act ;
(e) “Government” means the Government of Jammu and Kashmir ;
(f) “Local authority” means the local authority as defined under clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Act ;
(g) “License” means the permission letter for vending issued under these rules ;
(h) “Scheme” means a scheme framed by the Government under section 38 of the Act ;
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(i) “Section” means the section of the Act ;
(j) “Street Vendor” means a person engaged in vending of articles, goods, 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, 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 region specific; and the words “street vending” with their grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall be construed accordingly, as referred to in clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Act ;
(k) “Town Vending Committee (TVC)” means a committee constituted under Rule 4.
2. Words and expressions which are used in these rules and not defined but defined in the Act shall have the same meaning assigned to them in the Act.
CHAPTER 2 REGULATION OF STREET VENDING