Inserted by Act 33 of 2021 (w.e.f. 25.02.2021). — ACT 9 OF 2016

4. Inserted by Act 33 of 2021 (w.e.f. 25.02.2021). (i) "District Planning Committee" means the Committee constituted by the Government for a district under Section 53 of the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994 (20 of 1994), to prepare a draft development plan for the district as a whole and to exercise such other functions assigned to it by the Government; 1 [(j) "Five Year Plan" means an economic plan prepared by the State or Local Self Governments to achieve the goals and objectives like growth, development, employment, self-reliance, and social justice for a period of five years or for a period as decided by the Government from, time to time;] (k) "floor area ratio" means the quotient obtained by dividing the total floor area on all floors by the area of the plot; (l) "Government" means the Government of Kerala; (m) "industry" means an industry as defined in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (Central Act 14 of 1947); (n) "joint planning area" means an area declared to be a Joint Planning Area under Section 40 of this Ordinance; 2 [(na) "land" includes benefits arising out of land, and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth and shall also include, but not limited to, water bodies, forest, mangroves, wetland and the like;] (o) "land pooling" means assembling of small land parcels into a large land parcel providing it with infrastructure in a planned manner and returning the re-constituted land to the owners, after deducting the cost of the provision of infrastructure and public spaces by the sale of some land or otherwise where infrastructure is provided; (p) "local planning area" means the area under the jurisdiction of a Municipal Corporation, a Municipal Council or a Town Panchayat constituted under Section 4 of the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994 (20 of 1994), or of a Village Panchayat constituted under Section 4 of the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (13 of 1994); (q) "Local Self Government Institution" means a Panchayat constituted under Section 4 of the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (13 of 1994) or a Municipality constituted under Section 4 of the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994 (20 of 1994); (r) "master plan" means a comprehensive plan for a local planning area covering the whole area or part thereof or a joint planning area, as the case may be, conceived within the framework of the 3 [spatial perspective plan], if any, providing long-term policies, programmes and detailed proposals for spatial development of such area indicating the manner in which the use of land and development therein shall be carried out 4 [and the said plan shall be in force for a period of fifteen years;]