In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) ‘committee’ means the State Tourism Conservation and Preservation Committee constituted under section 4;
(b) ‘local authority’ means a village panchayat constituted under the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (13 of 1994) or a municipality constituted under the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994 (20 of 1994);
(c) ‘prescribed’ means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(d) ‘special tourism zone’ means any area declared as such by Government under section 3;
* Received the assent of the Governor on the 9 th day of March, 2005 and published in the Kerala Gazette Extraordinary No. 530 dated 9st March, 2005.
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(e) ‘State’ means the State of Kerala;
(f) ‘tourist area’ means any area notified by the Government in the Gazette to be a tourist area for the purposes of this Act;