In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires –
(a) ‘brick-kiln’ means any kiln at which bricks are baked and in which hard coke, soft coke, slack coal or any other kind of coal is used for fuel purposes but does not include an indigenous type of kiln in which wood coal is used;
(b) ‘Buffer zone’ in respect of a fruit belt means an area of 3 kilometers on all sides of and parallel to such fruit belt ;
(c) ‘Director’ means the Director of Horticulture and Fruit Utilization, Uttar Pradesh appointed as such by the State Government ;
(d) ‘Grove’ means any piece of land having fruit trees, planted thereon in such number that they preclude or when full grown will preclude the land or any considerable portion thereof from being used primarily for any other purpose, and includes a nursery for growing plants of such trees;
(e) ‘harmful establishment’ means –
(i) brick-kiln,
(ii) factory, workshop, or other establishment which uses coke or coal other than wood coal for fuel purposes, in its furnace which emits or causes emission of smoke, and in which articles are manufactured, processed, adapted or produced with a view to their use, transport, or sale and which employs ten or more workers on any day in a year, but does not include hotel, restaurant or other eating places;
(f) housing scheme’ means any housing or colonization scheme or activity by a person designed to construct more than one residential or other buildings for purposes of sale or letting and includes any scheme for development of any land for lease or sale as plots of land for construction of residential or other buildings, but does not include construction of a building by a person on his own or lease-hold land for his personal use and occupation;
(g) ‘fruit belt’ means an area declared as such under section 3 by the State Government;
(h) ‘Occupier’ in relation to a harmful establishment or a housing scheme means the person who has ultimate control over the affairs of the harmful establishment or the housing scheme and includes the owner or manager thereof.