Section 2 — Definitions

In this Act

(a) appointed date, means the twenty-fourth day of November 1975;

[ (a-1) Bench means a Bench of the Tribunal;

(a-2) Chairman means the Chairman of the Tribunal;

[ (a-2A) Chief Justice means the Chief Justice of the High Court,]

(a-3) District Judge means the District Judge within the meaning of the Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts Act, 1887;

[ (a-3A) Legal representative means a person, who in law represents the estate of the deceased person and includes a person in whom the right to receive pensionary, retirement, terminal or other benefits vests.]

(a-4) Member means a Judicial or Administrative member of the Tribunal and includes its Chairman and Vice-Chairman;] [

(aa) Presenting Officer includes an Assistant Presenting Officer appointed by the State Government ;]

[ (b) public servant means every person in the service or pay of

(i) The State Government ; or

(ii) a local authority not being a Cantonment Board ; or

[(iii) any other corporation owned or controlled by the State Government (including any company as defined in section 3 of the Companies Act, 1956, in which not less than fifty per cent of the paid up share capital is held by the State Government) but does not include

7 [ (bb) ‘‘service matter’’ means a matter relating to the conditions of service of a public servant,]

8 [ (c) ‘‘Tribunal’’ means the Tribunal constituted under section 3;

9 [ (d) ‘Vice-Chairman’ means the Vice-Chairman (Judicial) or Vice Chairman (Administrative) of the Tribunal.]