(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:-
(a) “appellate authority” in relation to any post, means the authority specified in column (4) of the Schedule;
(b) “Member” means the member of the Authority as referred to in sub-section (c) of section 3 of the Airports Authority of India Act or any other person authorised to perform the functions of the post of Member;
(c) “Competent Authority” means the authority empowered by the Airports Authority of India by general or special order to discharge the functions and/or exercise the powers of competent authority under these regulations;
(d) “Disciplinary Authority” means the authority specified in the Schedule and competent to impose any of the penalties specified in regulation 27;
(e) “Employee” means a person in employment of the Authority other than casual, work-charged or contingent staff;
(f) “Government” means the Central Government;
(g) “Members of Family” in relation to an employee, includes :-
(i) the wife or husband, as the case may be, of the employee, whether residing with him or not, but does not include a wife or husband, as the case may be, separated from the employee by a decree of divorce or judicial separation or other order of a competent court;
(ii) sons or daughters or step-sons or step-daughters of the employee wholly dependent on him/her, but does not include a child or step-child who is no longer in any way dependent on the employee or of whose custody the employee has been deprived of by or under any law;
(iii) any other person related, whether by blood or by marriage, to the employee or to such employee’s wife or husband, and wholly dependent on such employee;
(h) “Reviewing Authority” means the authority specified in column (5) of the schedule; and
(i) “Schedule” means the Schedule appended to these regulations;
(2) Words and expression used and not defined in these regulations, but defined in the Act shall have the same meaning respectively assigned to them in the Act.