In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “Amenity” includes road, supply of water or electricity, street lighting, drainage, sewerage and such other convenience as the Government may, by notification in the Gazette, specify to be an amenity for the purposes of this Act;
(b) “Building” means any structure or erection, or part of a structure or erection, which is intended to be used for residential, industrial, commercial or other purposes, whether in actual use or not;
(c) “Collector” means the Collector of the district concerned, and includes any officer authorised by the Government to perform the functions of a Collector under this Act;
(d) “Corporation” means the Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation established under section 4 of the Act;
(e) “Development” with its grammatical variations, means the carrying out of building, engineering, quarrying or other operations, in, on, over or under land, or the making of any material change in any building or land, and includes re-development, but does not include mining operations, and the term “to develop” shall be construed accordingly;
* Received the assent of the Governor on the 26 th day of February, 1993 and published in the Kerala Gazette Extraordinary No 215 dated 27th February. 1993.
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(f) “Government” means the Government of Kerala;
(g) “Industrial Area” means any area declared to be an industrial area by the Government, by notification in the Gazette, which is to be developed and where industries are to be accommodated and includes an industrial estate and any area containing mineral deposits;
(h) “Industrial estate” means any site selected by the Government, where the Corporation builds factories and other buildings and makes them available for any industries or class of industries;
(i) “Member” means a member of the Corporation specified in section 5 and includes the Chairman;
(j) “Premises” means any land, building or part of any building and includes:
(i) the gardens, grounds and outhouses, if any, appertaining to such building or part of the building; and
(ii) any fittings affixed to such buildings or part of a building for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof;
(k) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(l) “Regulation” means the regulation made under this Act;
(m) “State” means the State of Kerala;
(n) the expression “land” and the expression “person interested” will have the meaning respectively assigned to them in section 3 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central Act 1 of 1894).
CHAPTER II DECLARATION OF INDUSTRIAL AREA