Definitions:
(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires-
(a) “Audit Officer” means the Accounts and Audit Officer, whatever his official designation, in whose circle the office of the Railway servant is situated;
(b) “Authority competent to grant leave” means the authority specified in Column (3) of the First Schedule to these rules, competent to grant the kind of leave specified in the corresponding entries in Column (2) of the said Schedule;
(c) “Completed years of service” or “one year’s continuous service” means continuous service of specified duration under the Railways and includes the period spent on duty as well as on leave including extraordinary leave;
(d) “Date of retirement” or “date of his retirement” in relation to a Railway servant, means the afternoon of the last day of the month in which the Railway servant attains the age prescribed for retirement under the terms and conditions governing his services;
(e) “Disability” means “specified disability”, benchmark disability” and “disability having high support needs” as referred to in the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (49 of 2016).
(f) “Foreign service” means service in which a Railway servant receives his pay with the sanction of Government from any source other than the Consolidated Fund of India or the Consolidated Fund of any State [or the Consolidated Fund of a Union Territory];
(g) “Form” means a Form mentioned at the end of Chapter-5 as Annexures;
(h) Railway servant in quasi-permanent employ” means an officer who, having been declared by the Union Public Service Commission to be eligible for appointment to the Ministerial Services under Ministry of Railways, has been appointed to a temporary or officiating vacancy on the understanding given to him in writing before he took up the appointment, that that vacancy is expected to become permanent but is not confirmed after completion of three years’ continuous service;
(i) “Railway servant in permanent employ” means an officer who holds substantively or provisionally substantively a permanent post or who holds a lien on a permanent post or who would have held a lien on permanent post had the lien not been suspended;
(j) “Vacation Department” means a department or part of a department, to which regular vacations are allowed, during which Railway servants serving in the department are permitted to be absent from duty.
(2) Words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Indian Railway Establishment Codes and Indian Railway Establishment Manuals shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Indian Railway Establishment Codes and Indian Railway Establishment Manuals.