(i) These rules may be called the Puducherry Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules, 2017.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette of Government of Puducherry.
2. (I) In these rules, unless the c�ntext otherwise requ1res,
(a) "Act" means the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vend mg) Act, 20 I 4(Central Act 7 of 2014 );
(b) "Bye-laws" means tbe bye-laws made under section 37;
(c) "Form" means a form appended to these rules;
{d) "Government" means the Lieutenant-Governor of Puducherry appointed by the President of Jndia under Article 239 of the Constitution of India;
(e) "Grievance Redressal and Dispute Resolution Committee" means a committee constituted by tbe Government of Puducherry under sub-section (I) of section 20 of the Act for the redressal of grievances or resolution of disputes;
(f ) "Local Authority" means a Municipality constituted under any law for the time being in force in the Union territory of Puducherry.
(g) Municipal Com.missioner" means the Commissioner of Municipality as defined in sub-section ( I 0) of section 2 of the Puducberry Municipalities Act, 1973.
(b) "Rule" mt:ans a rule made under section 36 of the Act
(1) "Schedule' means a schedule appended to these rules made under the Act as the case may be;
{j} "Scheme" means a scheme framed by the appropriate Government under section 38;
(k) "Section" means a section of the Act, (I) "Special Resolution" means a resolution declared as such by the Chairperson of a Town Vending Comminee on n notice of atleast I 4 days and which shall be required to be passed by a majority of the total Members of the Town Vending Committee and not less than two-thirds of the members present and voting in a meeting;
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(2) Words and expressions defined in the Act and used in these rules shall ha9e the same meanings as respectively assigned to them in the Act.
CHAPTER-ll REGULATION OF STREET VENDING
3. Prescription of the age for issue of certificate of vending. A street vendor who has completed the age of eighteen years shall alone be issued a certificate of vending under section 4.
CHAPTER-ill DISPUTE REDR£SSAL MECHANISM