In this Act, unleu the context otherwise requires,
(a) "building., includes any structure or erection or any part of ;1 building a1 so defined, but does not include plant or machinery comprised in ll buildina; •·
(b) '•Collector, means the Collector of a district;
(c) "competent authority", in relation t~ an~ ar~, . m,..a.n, such officer or authonty as the Government may, by notdicaoon tn the Gazette, appoint as the competent authority for that area for the purposes of this Acf,
(d) "erection", in relation to a building, includes extension, alteration or re-erection;
(e) "land' ' includes benefits to arise out of land1 and things attached to the eArth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth;
(f) "local authority" means a municipal corporation, a municipal council, a township committee, a panchayat, a development authority or a town planning trust;
,.. Received the assmt of the President on the 2nd day of September, 1981 and published in the Kerala Gazette Extraordinary No. 718 dated the 15th · September, 1981.
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(g) '"occupier" ineludes- · (i} any person wh~or the t1me being·ispayingor is liable to pay to the owner the Tent or any port1onof the rent of the land or building in respect of which such rent is paid or is payable; •
(ii) an owner in occupation of, or otherwise using, his land or .
building;
•(iii) a ·rent-free tenant· of any land or building; e ·(iv) ·a licensee in occupatJOn of any land or bmlding; and
(v) any ·person who is liable .to pay to the owner .damages for the use and occupation ·of any land or building;
(h} "owner'' includes any person who is receiving or is entitled ~to receive the rent of any building or land, whether on his own .account llr on behalf of hhruelf and others or as agent or trustee, ,or who would so receive the rent or be entitled to receive 1t if the building or land were let to a tenant;
(i) ''prescribed" means ,prescribed:by rules made under trus Act;
(i) ''slum area" means an area declared as sLch under subsection
(1) of section 3;
. (k) '•slum clearance" ':lle~ns the clearance of any slum area and the • demolitiOn and removal of bUJldtngs therefrom;
(1) "slum clearance area" or "clearance .areau means an -area in f relation to which an order of slum clearance has been made under sUb~ .
section ( l) of section 11;
(m) ''S~te" means the State orKerala;
(n) "work err improvement" includes, in relation to anytbuilding~in a slum area, the execution of any one or more of the following works, namely:-
(i) ·necessary repairs;
(ii) structural alterations;
(hi) provision of light points, water taps and bathing places; I
(iv) .construction of drams, open or covered;
(v) provision of.latrines, including conversion of dry latrines into water·borne latrines; (t .(vi) provision ofadditional or improved fixtu.res or fittings;
(vii) opening up or paving of court ... yards;
(viii) -removal of rubbish; and (i'X) any other work inclu.ding the .d~olition of any building or _a.ny part ther~of whtch m the opm1on of the ~ompetent 'authortty is necessary for executing any of the works· specified above.
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CHAPTER Il SLUM AREAS