PMWPSC Rules 2

Section 2 · Definitions

(1)

In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,-

(a)

"Act" means the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007;

(b)

"Application" means an application made to the tribunal under section 5 of the Act;

(c)

"Blood Relations", In the Context of a male and a female inmate, means father-daughter, mother-son, and brother-sister but not cousins;

(d)

"Conciliation Officer" means any person or representative of an organization referred to in explanation to sub-section(1) of section 5 or the Maintenance Officer designated by the State Government under sub-section(1) of section 18 or any other person nominated by the tribunal for this purpose;

(e)

"Form" means a form appended to these rules;

(f)

"Indigent Senior Citizen" means a person whose monthly income is less than rupees one thousand and five hundred;

(g)

"Inmate" in relation to an old age home, means a senior citizens duly admitted to reside in such a home;

(h)

"Maintenance Officer" means the District Social Security Officer of the District or any other officer not below the rank of a District Social Security Officer so designated by the State Government;

(i)

"opposite partly" means the party against whom an application for maintenance has been filed under section 4 of the Act;

(j)

"Organization" means an association registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 or any other law for time being in force;

(k)

"Presiding Officer" means an officer appointed to preside over a Tribunal envisaged in sub-section (2) of section 7 or sub-section (2) of section 15;

(l)

"Section" Means a section of the Act; and

(m)

"State Government" means the Government of the State of Punjab in Department of Social Security;

(2)

The Words and expressions used in these rules, but not defined, shall have the same meaning assigned to them in the Act.

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