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Bare acts > Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 > Section 2
 
  


 

2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires.- (a) "area", in relation to any provision of this Act, means such the State Government may, having regard to the requirements of that provision, specify by notification;

(b) "building" means a house, out-house, stable, latrine, urinal, sheet house, hut, wall (other than a boundary wall) or any other structure whether made of masonry, bricks, wood, mud, metal or other material;

(c) "dry latrine" means a latrine other than a water-seal latrine;

(d) "environment" includes water, air and land and the inter-relationship which and between water, air and land and human beings, other living creatures, plants, micro-organism and property;

(e) "environmental pollutant" means any solid, liquid or gaseous substance present in such concentration as may be, or tend to be, injurious to environment;

(f) "environmental pollution" means the presence in the environment of any environmental pollutant;

(g) "Executive Authority" means an Executive Authority appointed under sub-section (1) section 5;

(h) "HUDCO" means the Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited, a Government company registered by that name under the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956);

(i) "latrine" means a place set apart for defecation together with the structure comprising such place, the receptacle therein for collection of human excreta and fittings and apparatus, if any, connected therewith;

(j) "manual scavenger" means a person engaged in or employed for manually carrying human excreta and the expression "manual scavenging" shall be construed accordingly;

(k) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;

(l) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(m) "State Government", in relation to a Union territory, means the Administrator thereof appointed under article 239 of the Constitution;

(n) "water-seal latrine" means a pour-flush latrine, water flush latrine sanitary latrine with a minimum water-seal of 20 millimetres diameter in which human excreta is pushed in or flushed
by water.

 

 

 

 

 

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