(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, –
(a) “Government” means the Government of Mizoram ;
(b) “holding capacity” means the maximum number of street vendors who can be accommodated in any vending zone;
(c) “local authority” means a Municipal Corporation or a Municipal Council by whatever name called, or such other body legally entitled to function as a local authority in any city or town to provide civic services and regulate street vending, and includes the “planning authority” which regulates the land use in that city or town;
(d) “notification” means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
(e) “planning authority” means an Urban Development Authority or any other authority in any city or town designated by the Government as responsible for regulating the land use by defining the precise extent of areas for any particular activity in the master plan or development plan or zonal plan or layout plan or any other spatial plan which is legally enforceable under the applicable Town and Country Planning Act or the Urban Development Act or the Municipal Act;
(f) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act by the Government;
(g) “scheme” means a scheme framed by the Government under section 3;
(h) “specified” means as specified by the scheme;
(i) “state nodal officer” means an officer designated by the State Government to co-ordinate all matters relating to urban street vending in the State;
(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 or 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;
(k) “town vending committee” means the body constituted by the Government under section 4;
(l) “vending zone” means an area or place or a location designated as such by the planning authority for the specific use by street vendors for street vending and includes footpath, sidewalk, pavement, embankment, portions of a street, waiting area for public or any such place considered suitable for vending activities and providing services to the general public.
(2) Any reference in this Act to any enactment or any provision thereof, shall, in relation to an area in which such enactment or such provision is not in force, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force in that area.
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CHAPTER – II SCHEME FOR STREET VENDING