In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,
(a) advertisement means any word, letter, model, sign, placard, board, notice, device or representation in any manner whatsoever, wholly or in part, intended for the purpose of advertisement, announcement or direction, and includes any structure used or adapted for the display of advertisements:
10[(aa) agriculture includes horticulture, dairy farming, poultry farming and the planting and upkeep of an orchard;]
(b) building means any shop, house, hut, out-house, shed of stable, whether used for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise and whether of masonry, bricks, wood, mud, thatch, metal or any other material whatsoever, and includes a wall;
11[(c) colony means an area of land divided or proposed to be divided into plots or flats for residential, commercial, industrial, cyber city or cyber park purposes or for the construction of flats in the form of group housing or for the construction of integrated commercial complexes, but an area of land divided or proposed to be divided
(i) for the purpose of agriculture; or
(ii) as a result of family partition, inheritance, succession or partition of joint holding not with the motive of earning profit; or
(iii) in furtherance of any scheme sanction under any other law; or
(iv) by the owner of a factory for setting up of a housing colony for the labourers or the employees working in the factory; provided there is no profit motive; or
(v) when it does not exceed one thousand square metres or such less area as may be decided from time to time in an urban area to be notified by Government for the purposes of this sub-clause.
shall not be a colony;]
(d) colonizer means an individual, company or association or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, owning 12[] land for converting it into a colony and to whom a licence-has been granted under, this Act;
13[(dd) cyber city means self contained intelligent city with high quality of infrastructure, attractive surrounding and high speed communication access to be developed for neculeating the Information Technology concept germination of medium and large software companies and Informal ion Technology enabled services, wherein no manufaturing units shall be permitted;
(ddd) cyber park means an area developed exclusively for locating software development activities and Information Technology Enabled Services, wherein no manufacturing of any kind (including assembling activities) shall be permitted;]
(e) development works means internal and external development works;
14[(f) Director means the Director, Town and Country Planning, Haryana, and includes a person for the time being appointed by the Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, to exercise and perform all or any of the powers and functions of the Director under this Act and the rules made thereunder;]
(g) external development works include water supply, sewerage, drains, necessary provisions of treatment and disposal of sewage, sullage and storm water, roads, electrical works, solid waste management and disposal, slughter houses, colleges, hospitals, stadium/sports complex, fire stations, grid sub-stations etc. and any other work which the Director may specify to be executed in the periphery of or outside colony/area for the benefit of the colony/area;
(gg) flat means a part of any property, intended to be used for residential purposes, including one or more rooms with enclosed spaces located on one or more floors, with direct exit to a public street or road or to a common area leading to such streets or road and includes any garage or room whether or not adjacent to the building, in which such flat is located provided by the coloniser/owner of such property for use by the owner of such flat for parking any vehicle or for residence of any person employed in such flat, as the case may be;]
(h) Government means the Government of the State of Haryana;
15[(hh) group housing means a buildings designed and developed in the form of flats for residential purpose or any ancillary or appurtenant building including 1 community facilities, public amenities and public utility as may be prescribed;
(hhh) integrated commercial complex means building containing apartments sharing common services and facilities and having their undivided share in the land and meant to be used for office or for practising of any profession or for carrying on any occupation, trade, business or such other type of independent use as may be prescribed;]
(i) internal development works mean
(i) metalling of roads and paving of footpaths;
(ii) turfing and plantation with trees of openspaces;
(iii) street lighting;
(iv) adequate and wholesome water-supply;
(v) sewers and drains both for storm and sullage water and necessary provision for their treatment and disposal; and
(vi) any other work that the Director may think necessary in the interest of proper development of a colony;
16[(j) local authority , means a Municipal Committee or municipal Council or Municipal Corporation;]
(k) owner includes a person in whose favour a lease of land in an urban area for a period of not less than ninety-nine years has been granted;
(l) person includes an association or body of individuals whether incorporated or not;
17[(m) plot/flat holder means a person in whose favour a plot/flat in a colony has been transferred or agreed to be transferred by the coloniser;]
(n) prescribed means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
18(nn) property dealer means any person/agent who runs the business of purchase or sale of plots, flats or apartments in integrated commercial complex or issues advertisement for sale thereof on behalf of owners and;]
(o) urban area means any area of land within the limits of a municipal area or notified area or the Faridabad Complex or situate within five kilometers of the limits thereof, or any other area where, in the opinion of the Government, there is a potential for building activities and the Government by means of a notification declares.