2. Definitions.—In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) “Act” means the Working Journalists (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 (45 of 1955);
(b) “authorized medical practitioner” means a registered medical practitioner designated as such under rule 24 and where no such practitioner has been designated, any registered medical practitioner;
(c) “average pay” shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947);
(d) “competent officer” means an officer designated as such under rule 17;
(e) (f) “form” means a form appended to these rules; (g) “leave” means earned leave, leave on medical certificate, maternity leave, extraordinary, leave not due, casual leave, study leave or quarantine leave; (h) “earned leave” means leave admissible under Cl. (a) of Sec. 7 of the Act;
(i) “leave on medical certificate” medical leave admissible under Cl. (b) of Sec.7 of the Act.
(j) “leave not due” means leave which is not due to a working journalist but which may be granted to him in anticipation of its being earned subsequently;
(k) “quarantine leave” means leave of absence from duty by reason of the presence of an infectious disease in the family or household of a working journalist; (l) “study leave” means leave granted to a working journalist to enable him to undergo any special course of training which may be of use to him in his journalistic career; and
(m) “shifts”---“day shift” means a shift when any hours of work of the shift do not fall between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 p.m.; “night shift” means a shift when any hours of work fall between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 p.m.
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