2(1) In these regulations unless the context otherwise requires.-
(a) 'Cadre Officer' means a member of the Service;
(b) 'Cadre Post' means any of the posts specified as such in the regulations made under sub-rule (1) of rule 4 of the Cadre Rules;
(c) 'Cadre Rules' means the Indian Police Service (Cadre) Rules, 1954;
(d) 'Committee' means the Committee set up in accordance with regulation 3;
(e) 'Commission' means the Union Public Service Commission;
(f) 'Recruitment Rules' means the Indian Police Service (Recruitment) Rules, 1954;
(g) 'Schedule' means a Schedule appended to these regulations;
(h) 'Service' means the Indian Police Service;
(i) 'State means' 2[State specified in the First Schedule to the Constitution and includes a Union Territory]3;
(j) 'State Police Service' means, 4(i) for the purpose of filling up the vacancies in the Indian Police Service Cadre of the Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories under rule 9 of the Recruitment Rules, any of the following services, namely:-
(a) the Delhi and Andaman and Nicobar Islands Police Service;
(b) the Goa Police Service;
(c) the Pondicherry Police Service;
(d) the Mizoram Police Service;
(e) the Arunachal Pradesh Police Service;
(f) 4Athe Jammu and Kashmir Police Service.
5(ii) In all other cases, the principal Police service of a State, a member of which normally holds charge of a Sub-division of a district for purposes of police administration and includes any other duly constituted police service functioning in the Sate which is declared by the State Government to be equivalent thereto.
(k) 'State Government' means- 1 The principal rules were notified vide Notification No.14/2/54-AIS(II) dated 06.06.1955 2 Substituted w.e.f. 1.11.56 vide MHA Notification No. 13/21/56-AIS(III) -D, dated 28.2.58 and awarded w.e.f. 2/5/61 vide MHA Not. No. 10/5/61-AIS dated 1/9/61 3 Substituted vide DOPT Not. No. 13/4/71-AIS(I) dated 11.1.72.
4A Inserted vide DOPT Notification No. 14015/40/2021- AIS (I) (9) 4 Substituted vide D.P. Notification No. 13013/1/89-AIS(I), dated 24/1/89 5 Substituted vide D.P. Notification No. 16/5/70-AIS(III) dated 21.8.71.
116 6(i) in relation to a State in respect of which a Separate Cadre of the Service exists, the Government of such State; and 7(ii) in relation to a group of State in respect of which a Joint Cadre of the Service is constituted, the Joint Cadre Authority;
(iii) in relation to a group of Union Territories [ ]8 in respect of which a joint cadre of the Service is constituted, the Central Government.
9(l) 'Year' means the period commencing on the first day of January and ending on the thirty first day of December of the same year.
2(2) All other words and expressions used in these regulations but not defined shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Recruitment Rules.