law: The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 
  2.  Definitions.
  1.       In this
  
  Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
  a.     
  
    “appropriate Government” means in respect of matters relating
  
  to,—
                       
  
   i.        
  
    a Union territory without Legislature, the Central Government;
                      
  
   ii.        
  
    the Union territories with Legislature, the Government of the
  
  National Capital Territory of Delhi or, as the case may be, the Government of
  
  Union territory of Puducherry;
                     
  
   iii.        
  
    a State, the State Government;
  a.     
  b.    
  
    “holding capacity” means the maximum number of street vendors
  
  who can be accommodated in any vending zone and has been determined as such by
  
  the local authority on the recommendations of the Town Vending Committee;
  c.     
  
    “local authority” means a Municipal Corporation or a Municipal
  
  Council or a Nagar Panchayat, by whatever name called, or the Cantonment Board,
  
  or as the case may be, a civil area committee appointed under section 47 of the
  
  Cantonment Act, 2006 or such other body entitled to function as a local
  
  authority in any city or town to provide civic services and regulate street
  
  vending and includes the “planning authority” which regulates the land use in
  
  that city or town;
  d.    
  
    “mobile vendors” means street vendors who carry out vending
  
  activities in designated area by moving from one place to another place vending
  
  their goods and services;
  e.     
  
    “natural market” means a market where sellers and buyers have
  
  traditionally congregated for the sale and purchase of products or services and
  
  has been determined as such by the local authority on the recommendations of
  
  the Town Vending Committee;
  f.     
  
    “notification” means a notification published in the Official
  
  Gazette and the term “notify” shall be construed accordingly;
  g.    
  
    “planning authority” means an Urban Development Authority or any
  
  other authority in any city or town designated by the appropriate Government as
  
  responsible for regulating the land use by defining the precise extent of areas
  
  for any particular activity in the master plan or development plan or zonal
  
  plan or layout plan or any other spatial plan which is legally enforceable
  
  under the applicable Town and Country Planning Act or the Urban Development Act
  
  or the Municipal Act, as the case may be;
  h.     
  
    “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act by
  
  the appropriate Government;
  i.      
  
    “Schedule” means the Schedule annexed to this Act;
  j.      
  
    “scheme” means a scheme framed by the appropriate Government
  
  under section 38;
  k.     
  
    “stationary vendors” means street vendors who carry out vending
  
  activities on regular basis at a specific location;
  l.      
  
    “street vendor” means a person engaged in vending of articles,
  
  goods, wares, food items or merchandise of everyday use or offering services to
  
  the general public, in a street, lane, side walk, footpath, pavement, public
  
  park or any other public place or private area, from a temporary built up structure
  
  or by moving from place to place and includes hawker, peddler, squatter and all
  
  other synonymous terms which may be local or region specific; and the words
  
  “street vending” with their grammatical variations and cognate expressions,
  
  shall be construed accordingly;
  m.   
  
    “Town Vending Committee” means the body constituted by the
  
  appropriate Government under section 22;
  n.     
  
    “vending zone” means an area or a place or a location designated
  
  as such by the local authority, on the recommendations of the Town Vending Committee,
  
  for the specific use by street vendors for street vending and includes
  
  footpath, side walk, pavement, embankment, portions of a street, waiting area
  
  for public or any such place considered suitable for vending activities and
  
  providing services to the general public.
  2.       Any
  
  reference in this Act to any enactment or any provision thereof, shall, in
  
  relation to an area in which such enactment or such provision is not in force
  
  be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force in that
  
  area.