Section 2: Definitions

2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context otherwise requires:- (1) “Board” means the Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board established under section 3 of this Act; (2) “Budget” means a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the Board in respect of each financial year as provided for in section 13 of this Act; (3) “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Board; (4) “Vice Chairman” means the Vice Chairman of the Board; (5) “Chief Executive Officer’ means the Chief Executive Officer of the Board and ‘Additional Chief Executive Officer’ means the Additional Chief Executive Officer of the Board; (6) ‘Financial Year’ means a period of 12 months beginning on first of April; (7) ‘Fund’ means the Tourism Fund established under section-14 of this Act; (8) ‘State’ means the State of Uttarakhand; (9) ‘Tourism enterprises’ means all or any of the following:- (a) Any business which provides national or international carriage for passengers; (b) Any business which, either wholly or in part, provides or arranges services for visitors in Uttarakhand by way of transport, accommodation, tours or guides, whether or not such services are provided within or outside Uttarakhand; (c) Any business which either wholly or in a part, distributes for the purpose of trade or retails tourism-related products such as handcrafts, souvenirs etc. made in the State of Uttarakhand; (d) Any other undertaking, including any convention centers, restaurants, amusement parks, ropeways, exhibitions, shows, fair, publicity campaigns or theme parks etc. intended wholly or in part for the benefit of or for the purpose of attraction visitors to Uttarakhand. (10) “Director General Tourism” means the contemporary Head of the Department of Tourism Directorate. (11) “Government Servant” means the Government servant working under the Directorate of Tourism at that time.1