In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “Act” means the Copyright Act, 1957 (14 of 1957);
(aa) “copyright business” means the business of issuing or granting licence in respect of any class of works in which copyright or any other right conferred by the Act subsists, and includes the functions referred to in sub-section (3) of section 34;
(b) “Form” means a form set out in the First Schedule;
(c) “Schedule” means Schedule to these rules; and
(d) “Section” means a section of the Act.
CHAPTER II THE COPYRIGHT BOARD
3. Terms and conditions of office of the Chairman and members of the Copyright Board. –- (1) The Chairman and other members of the Copyright Board shall be appointed for such period not exceeding five years as the Central Government may in each case deem fit.
(2) The Chairman and other members of the Copyright Board shall, on the expiry of the period of their appointment, be eligible for re-appointment.
(3) The Chairman or any other member of the Copyright Board may resign his office by giving three months’ notice in writing to the Central Government.
(4) The Chairman and other members of the Copyright Board shall be paid such salary or honorarium as may be determined by the Central Government in each case.
(5) A non-official appointed as the Chairman or other members of the Copyright Board shall be entitled to travelling allowances for journeys performed on duty and to daily allowances for the period on duty on the scale provided in the rules applicable to the class of officers to which the Central Government may declare him to correspond in status :
Provided that it shall be competent for the Central Government to provide a different scale of such allowances if the circumstances of any case so require.
(6) An official appointed as the Chairman or other members of the Copyright Board shall be entitled to such travelling allowances for journeys performed on duty and to such daily allowances for the period spent on duty as may be admissible to him as such official.
(7) The other conditions of service of the Chairman and other members of the Copyright Board shall be regulated by orders made in that behalf by the Central Government from time to time.