(1) This Act may be called the Puducherry Ground Water (Control and Regulation) Act, 2002.
(2) It shall extend to the whole of the Union Territory of Puducherry.
+(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the official gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different areas in the Union Territory of Puducherry.
Definitions
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, -
(a) "Authority" means Ground Water Authority established in accordance with section 3 of the Act;
(b) "Government" means the Administrator of the Union Territory of Puducherry appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution;
(c) "Ground water" means the water which exists below the surface of the ground at any particular location in any land;
(d) "Notified area" means any area which this Act applies;
(e) "Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
+ This Act came into force w.e.f 15.09.2003 vide Notification published in the EG Pt-I No.104 dt 15.09.2003.
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(f) "Sink" with all its grammatical variations and cognate expression in relation to a well includes any digging, drilling or boring of new wells or deepening carried to the existing wells;
(g) "User of ground water" means the person or persons or an institution including a company or an establishment, whether Government or not, who or which use ground water for any purpose including domestic use made either on a personal or community basis or industrial use;
(h) "Well" means a well sunk for the search or extraction of ground water by a person or persons except by the authorized officials of the Union Territory of Puducherry for carrying out scientific investigations, exploration, development or management work for the survey and assessment of ground water resources or for providing water for irrigation and includes open well, dug well, borewell, dug-cumborewell, tubewell, filter point, collector well and infiltration gallery:
Provided that it will exclude the person or persons who use ground water drawn from a well by manual devices, e.g., hand pump or rope and bucket.
Establishment of a Ground Water Authority