law: Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 
  2. Definitions
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires,-
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    "appointed
  
  day" with reference to a Special Economic Zone means the date on which the
  
  Special Economic Zone is notified by the Central Government under sub-section
  
  (1) of Section 4;
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    "Approval
  
  Committee" means an Approval Committee constituted under subsection (1) of
  
  Section 13;
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    "authorised
  
  operations" means operations which may be authorised under subsection (2)
  
  of Section 4 and sub-section (9) of Section 15;
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    "Authority"
  
  means a Special Economic Zone Authority constituted under subsection (1) of
  
  Section 31;
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    "Board"
  
  means the Board of Approval constituted under sub-section (1) of Section 8;
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    "Co-Developer"
  
  means a person who, or a State Government which, has been granted by the
  
  Central Government a letter of approval under sub-section (12) of Section 3;
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    "Developer"
  
  means a person who, or a State Government which, has been granted by the
  
  Central Government a letter of approval under sub-section (10) of Section 3 and
  
  includes an Authority and a Co-Developer;
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    "Development
  
  Commissioner" means the Development Commissioner appointed for one or more
  
  Special Economic Zones under sub-section (1) and Section 11;
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    "Domestic
  
  Tariff Area" means the whole of India (including the territorial waters
  
  and continental shelf) but does not include the areas of the Special Economic
  
  Zones;
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    "entrepreneur"
  
  means a person who has been granted a letter of approval by the Development
  
  Commissioner under sub-section (9) of Section 15;
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    "existing
  
  Special Economic Zone" means every Special Economic Zone which is in
  
  existence on or before the commencement of this Act;
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    "existing
  
  Unit" means every Unit which has been set up on or before the commencement
  
  of this Act in an existing Special Economic Zones;
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    "export"
  
  means-
               
  
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    taking
  
  goods, or providing services, out of India, from a Special Economic Zone, by
  
  land, sea or air or by any other mode, whether physical or otherwise; or
              
  
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    supplying
  
  goods, or providing services, from the Domestic Tariff Area to a Unit or
  
  Developer; or
             
  
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    supplying
  
  goods, or providing services, from one Unit to another Unit or Developer, in
  
  the same or different Special Economic Zone;
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    "Free
  
  Trade and Warehousing Zone" means a Special Economic Zone wherein mainly
  
  trading and warehousing and other activities related thereto are carried on;
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    "import"
  
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    bringing
  
  goods or receiving services, in a Special Economic Zone, by a Unit or Developer
  
  from a place outside India by land, sea or air or by any other mode, whether
  
  physical or otherwise; or
              
  
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    receiving
  
  goods, or services by a Unit or Developer from another Unit or Developer of the
  
  same Special Economic Zone or a different Special Economic Zone;
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    "Infrastructure
  
  facilities" means industrial, commercial or social infrastructure other
  
  facilities necessary for the development of a Special Economic Zone or such
  
  other facilities which may be prescribed;
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    "International
  
  Financial Services Centre" means an International Financial Service Centre
  
  which has been approved by the Central Government under sub-section (1) of
  
  Section 18:
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    "manufacture"
  
  means to make, produce, fabricate, assemble, process or bring into existence,
  
  by hand or by machine, a mew product having a distinctive name, character or
  
  use and shall include processes such as refrigeration, cutting, polishing.
  
  Blending, repair, remaking, re-engineering and includes agriculture, poultry,
  
  aquaculture, animal husbandry, floriculture, pisciculture, poultry,
  
  sericulture, viticulture and mining:
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    "notification"
  
  means a notification published in the Official Gazette and the expression
  
  :notify" shall be construed accordingly;
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    "notified
  
  offences" means the offences specified as such under sub-section (1) of
  
  Section 21;
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    "Offshore
  
  Banking Init" means a branch of a bank located in a Special Economic Zone
  
  and which has obtained the permission under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of
  
  Section 23 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949);
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    "person"
  
  includes an individual, whether resident in India or outside India, a Hindu
  
  undivided family, co-operative society, a company, whether incorporated in
  
  India or outside India, a firm, proprietary concern, or an association of
  
  persons or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, local authority
  
  and any agency, office or breach owned or controlled by such individual, Hindu
  
  undivided family, co-operative, association body, authority or company;
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    "prescribed"
  
  means prescribed by rules made by the Central Government under this Act;
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    "Reserve
  
  Bank" means the Reserve Bank of India constituted under Section 3 of the
  
  Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934);
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    "Schedule"
  
  means Schedules to this Act;
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    "services"
  
  means such tradable services which.-
               
  
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    are
  
  covered under the General Agreement on Trade Services annexes as IB to the
  
  Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation concluded at Marrakesh on
  
  the 15th day of April, 1994;
              
  
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    may
  
  be prescribed by the Central Government for the purposes of this Act; and
             
  
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    earn
  
  foreign exchange;
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    "State
  
  Government" means a State Government of the State in which a Special
  
  Economic Zone is established or proposes to be established;
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    "State
  
  Government" means a State Government of the State in which a Special
  
  Economic Zone is established or proposed to be established;
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    "Unit"
  
  means a Unit set up by an entrepreneur in a Special Economic Zone and includes
  
  an existing Unit, an Offshore Banking Unit and Unit in an International
  
  Financial Services Centre, whether established before or established after the
  
  commencement of this Act;
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    all
  
  other words and expressions used and not defined in this Act but defined in the
  
  Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Industries (Development and
  
  Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951), the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the
  
  Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) and the Foreign Trade (Development and
  
  Regulation) Act, 1992 (22 of 1992) shall have the meanings respectively
  
  assigned to them in those Acts.