2. Definitions: Unless the subject or the context otherwise requires, in this Act:
(a) “Conserved Watershed Area” means a protected watershed area declared
under Section 3.
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(b) “Soil and Watershed Conservation” means acts to prevent or save any area
from being destroyed from natural calamities such as flood, landslide and
soil-erosion and keep the volume and flow of water in a normal condition
or keep on maintaining cleanliness by preventing the flow of water from
being muddy.
(c) “Land use System” means a process of having a long-term use of a land by
doing farming or other acts in such a manner as not to weaken or destroy or
as to keep on the physical and chemical qualities maintaining the fertility of
such land.
(d) “Department” means the Soil and Watershed Conservation Department.
(e) “Watershed Conservation Officer” means an officer appointed or
designated pursuant to Section 19.
(f) “Prescribed” or “as prescribed” means prescribed or as prescribed in the
Rules framed under this Act