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2. Definitions

Wed, 02/19/2014 - 12:52 -- eyeway
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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

  1. "Appropriate Government" means,-
    1. in relation to the Central Government or any establishment/wholly or substantially financed by that Government, or a Cantonment Board constituted under the Cantonment Act, 1924, the Central Government ;
    2. in relation to a State Government or any establishment wholly or substantially financed by that Government, or any local authority, other than a Cantonment Board, the State Government;
    3. in respect of the Central Co-ordination Committee and the Central Executive Committee, the Central Government;
    4. in respect of the State Co-ordination Committee and the State Executive Committee, the State Government;
  2. "blindness" refers to a condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions, namely:-
    1. total absence of sight; or
    2. visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses; or
    3. limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse;
  3. "Central Co-ordination Committee" means the Central Co-ordination Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 3;
  4. "Central Executive Committee" means the Central Executive Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 9;
  5. "cerebral palsy" means a group of non-progressive conditions of a person characterized by abnormal motor control posture resulting from brain insult or injuries occurring in the pre-natal, peri-natal or infant period of development;
  6. "Chief Commissioner" means the Chief Commissioner appointed under sub-section (1) of section 57
  7. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner appointed under sub-section (1) of section 60;
  8. "competent authority" means the authority appointed under section 50;
  9. "Disability" means-
    1. blindness;
    2. low vision;
    3. leprosy-cured;
    4. hearing impairment;
    5. loco motor disability;
    6. mental retardation;
    7. mental illness;
      1. "employer" means,-
        1. In relation to a Government, the authority notified by the Head of the Department in this behalf or where no such authority is notified, the Head of the Department; and
        2. in relation to an establishment, the Chief Executive Officer of that establishment;
      2. "establishment" means a corporation established by or under a Central, Provincial or State Act, or an authority or a body owned or controlled or aided by the Government or a local authority or a Government company as defined in section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956) and includes Departments of a Government;
      3. "hearing impairment" means loss of sixty decibels or more in the better ear in the conversational range of frequencies;
      4. "institution for persons with disabilities" means an institution for the reception, care, protection, education, training, rehabilitation or any other service of persons with disabilities;
      5. "leprosy cured person" means any person who has been cured of leprosy but is suffering from-
        1. loss of sensation in hands or feet as well as loss of sensation and paresis in the eye and eye-lid but with no manifest deformity;
        2. manifest deformity and paresis but having sufficient mobility in their hands and feet to enable them to engage in normal economic activity;
        3. Extreme physical deformity as well as advanced age which prevents him from undertaking any gainful occupation,

        and the expression "leprosy cured" shall be construed accordingly;

      6. "loco motor disability" means disability of the bones, joints or muscles leading to substantial restriction of the movement of the limbs or any form of cerebral palsy;
      7. "medical authority" means any hospital or institution specified for the purposes of this Act by notification by the appropriate Government;
      8. "mental illness" means any mental disorder other than mental retardation;
      9. "mental retardation" means a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind of a person which is specially characterized by sub normality of intelligence;
      10. "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
      11. person with disability" means a person suffering from not less than forty per cent of any disability as certified by a medical authority;
      12. "person with low vision" means a person with impairment of visual functioning even after treatment or standard refractive correction but who uses or is potentially capable of using vision for the planning or execution of a task with appropriate assistive device;
      13. "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
      14. "rehabilitation" refers to a process aimed at enabling persons with disabilities to reach and maintain their optimal physical, sensory, intellectual, psychiatric or social functional levels;
      15. "Special Employment Exchange" means any office or place established and maintained by the Government for the collection and furnishing of information, either by keeping of registers or otherwise, respecting-
        1. persons who seek to engage employees from amongst the persons suffering from disabilities;
        2. persons with disability who seek employment;
        3. vacancies to which person with disability seeking employment may be appointed;
      16. "State Co-ordination Committee" means the State Co-ordination Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 13;
      17. "State Executive Committee" means the State Executive Committee constituted under subsection (l) of section 19

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PRELIMINARY

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