In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) "competent authority" means the Director Mountaineering Institute Manali and includes any other officer who may be appointed by the State Government to function as the competent authority under this Act, by notification published in the Official Gazette;
(b) "employer" when used in relation to mountaineering expedition, means the person who has ultimate control over the affairs of the expedition, and when the affairs of any expedition are entrusted to any person (whether called a managing agent, manager, superintendent or by any other name) such other person shall be deemed to be employer in relation to that expedition;
(c) "Institute" means the Mountaineering Institute Manali, Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh;
(d) "porter" means a person employed to assist the climbing/trekking parties visiting Himachal Pradesh in the operations connected with climbing the peaks, for hire or reward, whether directly or through any agency, to do any work skilled/unskilled or manual, but does not include a person employed for assisting climbing operations primarily in managerial or clerical capacity or as medical attendant for the members of the mountaineering expedition;
(e) "qualified medical practitioner" means a person holding a qualification granted by an authority specified in the Schedule to the Indian Medical Degrees Act, 1916 (7 of 1916), or
1. Provisions of the Act came into force w. e. f. 15 th October, 1987 in the whole of Himachal Pradesh vide Notification No. YSS-G-7-3/86, dated 13 th October, 1987 published in the Rajpatra, Himachal Pradesh (Extra-ordinary), dated 14 th October, 1987, p. 2012.
THE HIMACHAL PRADESH CLIMBING/TREKKING PORTERS (REGULATION 3 OF EMPLOYMENT) ACT, 1977 specified in the Schedule to the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956); and
(f) "State Government" means the Government of Himachal Pradesh.