In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires.-
(a) “Act” means the Tamil Nadu Panchayat Act, 1994 (Tamil Nadu Act 21 of 1994);
(b) “Form” means a Form appended to these Rules;
(c) “market” means a place used by the public for buying and selling goods and includes shandy or any other name by which, the place is called by the local public;
(d) “public market” means a market opened and maintained either by the Village Panchayat or the Panchayat Union.
(e) “private market” means a market run by a private person under licence either from the Village Panchayat or the Panchayat Union Council as per the conditions laid down in sub-section (1) of Section 148 of the Act;
(f) “Panchayat Union market” means the public market opened and maintained by the Panchayat Union Council;
(g) “Schedule” means, a Schedule appended to these Rules;
(h) “Village Panchayat market” means the public market opened and maintained by the Village Panchayat.