In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,--
(a) “Act” means the Working Journalists (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 (45 of 1955);
(b) “authorized medical practitioner” means a registered medical practitioner designated as such under rule 24 and where no such practitioner has been designated, any registered medical practitioner;
(c) “average pay” shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947);
(d) “competent officer” means an officer designated as such under rule 17;
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(f) “form” means a form appended to these rules;
(g) “leave” means earned leave, leave on medical certificate, maternity leave, extraordinary, leave not due, casual leave, study leave or quarantine leave;
(h) “earned leave” means leave admissible under Cl. (a) of Sec. 7 of the Act;
(i) “leave on medical certificate” medical leave admissible under Cl. (b) of Sec.7 of the Act.
(j) “leave not due” means leave which is not due to a working journalist but which may be granted to him in anticipation of its being earned subsequently;
(k) “quarantine leave” means leave of absence from duty by reason of the presence of an infectious disease in the family or household of a working journalist;
(l) “study leave” means leave granted to a working journalist to enable him to undergo any special course of training which may be of use to him in his journalistic career; and
(m) “shifts”---“day shift” means a shift when any hours of work of the shift do not fall between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 p.m.; “night shift” means a shift when any hours of work fall between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 p.m.
CHAPTER II GRATUITY
3. 3[Payment of gratuity.__ Gratuity shall be paid to a working journalist or in the case of his death, his nominee or nominees or, if there is no nomination in force at the time of the death of the working journalist, his family, as soon as possible after it becomes due and in any case not later than three months.]