In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) “Act” means the Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act, 1994 (Tamil Nadu Act 21 of 1994);
(b) “advertisement” means any information exhibited on any screen or board, or poster or wall or building or tree or boulder or any other object either private or public or on any hoarding erected on any private or public land or building or on any frame work or other support wholly or in part over any private or public land or building visible to public wholly or partly and will exclude advertisements made in newspapers, broadcast made over radio or telecast in television;
(c) “District Collector” means the Collector of the District concerned;
(d) “Form” means the Forms appended to these rules;
(e) “Government” means the Government of Tamil Nadu;
(f) “hoarding” means any screen or board at any private or public place used or intended to be used for exhibiting advertisement including the frameworks or other support erected wholly or in part upon or over any land, building, wall or structure or tree visible to public wholly or partly;
(g) “land” includes building, wall, structure and tree;
(h) “licence” means the licence granted under rule 3;
(i) words and expressions used but not defined in these rules shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Act. In the absence of such meaning, the Tamil Nadu General Clauses Act, 1891 (Tamil Nadu Act I of 1891) shall apply for the interpretation of these Rules.
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