Definitions
2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-
[(a) “betterment fee” means the fee declared under section 94 in respect of an increase in the value of land resulting from execution of an improvement or re-housing scheme;
(b) “City” means the Dhaka City;
(bb) “Corporation” means the Dhaka Municipal Corporation;]
(c) “Building Line” means a line (in the rear of a street alignment), up to which the main wall of a building abutting on a projected public street may lawfully extend;
(d) “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Kartripakkha;
[(e) “Deputy Commissioner” includes an Additional Deputy Commissioner, and also a Upazila Nirbahi Officer or an Assistant Commissioner authorised by the Deputy Commissioner to exercise any power conferred, or to perform any duty imposed, on the Deputy Commissioner by or under this Act;]
(f) “Improvement Scheme” means any scheme under Chapter III, but does not include a re-housing scheme or a projected public street referred to in section 69;
[(g) “Kartripakkha” means the Kartripakkha constituted under section 4;
(h) “member” means a member of the Kartripakkha;
(hh) “Municipality” means the Narayanganj Municipality or the Tongi Municipality;]
(i) “Notification” means a notification published in the official Gazette;
[(j) “Paurashava” means Narayanganj Paurashava or Tongi Paurashava;
(jj) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules or regulations made under this Act;]
(k) “Secretary to the Kartripakkha” means the person for the time being appointed by the Kartripakkha, to discharge the functions of Secretary to the Kartripakkha;
(l) “Tribunal” means the Tribunal constituted under section 82;
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(n) “drain” includes a sewer, a house-drain, a drain of any other description, a tunnel, a culvert, a ditch, a channel and any other device for carrying of sullage or rainwater;
(o) “public street” means any street, road, lane, gally, alley, passage, pathway, square or court, whether a thoroughfare or not, over which the public have a right of way and includes-
(a) the access or approach to a public ferry,
(b) the roadway over any public bridge or cause-way,
(c) the footway attached to any such street, public bridge or cause-way,
(d) the passage connecting two public streets, and
(e) the drains attached to any such street, public bridge or cause-way, and, where there is no drain attached to any such street, shall be deemed to include also, unless the contrary is shown, all land up to the boundary wall, ail, hedge or pillar of the premises, if any, abutting on the street, or if a street alignment has been fixed, then up to such alignment;
(p) “street alignment” means the line dividing the land comprised in and forming part of a street from the adjoining land; and
[(q) “Upazila Parishad” means the Upazila Parishad of a Upazila in which this Act is in force;
(r) “Union Parishad” means the Union Parishad of a Union in which this Act is in force;
(s) “Zila Parishad” means the Zila Parishad of a district in which this Act is in force.]
