Section 16:
Definition of local authority and Company.
In this Act--
(a) "local authority" means any municipal committee, district board, body of port
commissioners or other authority legally entitled to, or entrusted by the Government with, the control
or management of any municipal or local fund; and
(b) "Company" means a company registered under any of the enactments relating to Companies
from time to time in force in 1[India], or formed in pursuance of an Act of Parliament 2[of the United
Kingdom] or by Royal Charter or Letters Patent;
2[(c) "appropriate Government" means in relation to acquisition of land for the purposes
of the Union, the Central Government, and, in relation to acquisition of land for any other
purposes, the State Government].
Notes:
1. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 2) Order, 1956, for "Part A States and Part C States".
2. Ins. by the A. O. 1950.