In these Regulations, unless there is anything repugnant to the subject or context :-
(a) 'Act' means the Punjab Ex-Servicemen Corporation Act, 1978 (Punjab Act No.
33 of 1978);
(b) 'allowance' includes dearness allowance, travelling allowance, daily allowance, interim relief, conveyance allowance, sumptuary allowance, over-time allowance, city compensatory allowance, house rent allowance, medical allowance or any other kind of allowance;
(c) 'appointing authority' in relation to any officer or employee or class of officers or employees means the Board or the authority to whom the Board has delegated its powers;
(d) 'award' means a fixed amount awarded in recognition of meritorious work;
(e) 'Board' means the Board of Directors of the Corporation and includes a Committee constituted by the Board to exercise any of its powers;
(f) 'Corporation' means the Punjab Ex-Servicemen Corporation established under Section 3(1) of the Act;
(g) 'Dependent' means spouse and all the minor and unmarried children wholly dependent on the officer or employee, and the parent(s) whose income is less than Rs. 3000/-(Rs. Three thousands) per month who are ordinarily residing with the officer or employee;
(h) 'Direct appointment' means an appointment made otherwise than by promotion or transfer of a person already in service of Corporation, or by an appointment of a person on deputation from the Government of India or any State Government or any other Corporation or organisation;
(i) 'Government' means the Government of the State of Punjab in the Department of Defence Services Welfare;
(j) 'honorarium' means the non-recurring payment granted for special work of an occasional or intermittent character;
(k) 'Managing Director' means the Managing Director of the Corporation;
(l) 'pay' means the pay drawn in a time scale and includes 'personal', 'special',' dearness' and 'deputation' pay but does not include any allowance;
(m) 'Personal pay' means an additional pay granted as a personal measure to any officer or employee :- -2-
(i) to save him from loss due to revision of pay scales or reduction therein, otherwise than as a disciplinary measure ; or
(ii) in exceptional circumstances ;
(n) 'probationer' means an officer or employee during the period of probation as per the terms of employment ;
(o) 'Rules' means the Rules framed under Section 32 of the Act ;
(p) 'Special pay' means additional pay granted in consideration of :-
(i) the specially arduous nature of duties ; or
(ii) a specific addition to the work or responsibility.
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