Section 2:
Definitions.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--
(a) "local authority" means a municipal corporation or a municipal council (by whatever name
called) or a cantonment board or any other body, entrusted with the duty of supplying water under the
law by or under which it is constituted;
(b) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
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[(c) "industry" includes any operation or process, or treatment and disposal system, which
consumes water or gives rise to sewage effluent or trade effluent, but does not include any hydel
power unit;]
(d) words and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in the Water (Prevention
and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (6 of 1974) shall have the meanings respectively assigned to
them in that Act.
Notes:
1 Subs. by Act 19 of 2003, s. 2, for clause (c) (w.e.f. 6-5-2003).