(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) “Act” means the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885);
(b) “appropriate authority” means the Central Government, respective State Governments, local authority or such authority, body, company or institution incorporated or established by the Central Government or the State Government, in respect of property, under, over, along, across, in or upon which underground or overground telegraph infrastructure, is to be established or maintained, vested in, or under, the control or management of such appropriate authority;
(c) “State Government” means the State Government having jurisdiction, and includes the administration of a Union territory;
(d) “ licensee” means any person holding a licence issued under sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Act;
(e) “overground telegraph infrastructure” means a telegraph or a telegraph line established over the ground and includes posts or other above ground contrivances, appliances and apparatus for the purpose of establishment or maintenance of the telegraph or the telegraph line;
(f) “rule” means the Indian Telegraph Right of Way Rules, 2016.
(g) “underground telegraph infrastructure” means a telegraph line laid under the ground and includes manholes, marker stones, appliances and apparatus for the purposes of establishment or maintenance of the telegraph line.
(2) Words and expressions used and not defined herein but defined in the Act shall have the meaning assigned to them in the Act.