In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,--
(i) "Act" means the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act, 1971 (Tamil Nadu act 35 of 1972) ;
(ii) "Collector" means the Collector of the Revenue District;
(iii) "Dry land" means the land registered in the revenue records of the Government as 'dry';
(iv) "Layout" means division of land into plots by introducing a new road or street ;
(v) "Local Authority" means Municipality, Town Panchayat or Village Panchayats in which the land is situated ;
(vi) "Plot" means a portion of land held in single or joint ownership other than the land used, allowed or set apart for any street, lane, passage, pathway or other common public purposes ;
(vii) "Sub-division" means division of land abutting an existing road or street;
(viii) "Wet land" shall have the same meaning as in the Tamil Nadu Additional Assessment and Additional Water Cess Act, 1963 (Tamil Nadu Act 8 of 1963) ;
Notes.-- According to section 2(11) of the Tamil Nadu Additional Assessment and Additional Water Cess Act, 1963 (Tamil Nadu Act 8 of 1963), wet land means the land registered in the revenue accounts of the Government as wet, single-crop wet, compounded double-crop wet or double-crop wet, as the case may be.
(ix) Words and expressions used and not defined in these rules, but defined in the Act and the rules made thereunder and in the Acts and rules relating to the local bodies shall have the same meaning assigned to them in the said Act and the rules.