In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) “Act” means the Oil Industry (Development) Act, 1974 (47 of 1974);
(b) “appellate authority” means the authority specified as such in the Schedule-I annexed to these rules;
(c) “appointing authority” means the Board and includes any authority specified as such in the Oil Industry Development Board Employees’ (General Conditions of Service) Rules, 1984, as amended from time to time;
(d) “Board” means the Oil Industry Development Board, established under section 3 of the Act;
(e) “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Board;
(f) “Competent authority” means any authority empowered by the Board by any general or special order to discharge the function or exercise the powers specified in such order;
(g) “disciplinary authority” means the authority specified as such in the Scheduled – I annexed to these rules, competent to impose any of the penalties specified in rule 24;
(h) “employee” means a person in the employment of the Board other than casual, work charged or contingent staff, and includes an officer of the Board.
(i) “family”, in relation to an employee, includes:
1) 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 or order of a competent court;
2) sons or daughters or step sons or stepdaughters of the employee and wholly dependent on him, but does not include a child or a 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;
3) any other person related, whether by blood or marriage, to the employee or to such employee’s wife or husband as the case may be, and wholly dependent on such employee;
(j) “public servant” includes a person as mentioned in section 21 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 (45 of 1860);
(k) “reviewing authority” means the authority specified as such in the Schedule, I annexed to these rules.
PART II – CONDUCT