In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires:-
(a) "Act" means the Rajasthan Municipalities Act, 1959 (Act No. 38 of 1959);
(b) "Appointing Authority" means the authority competent to make appointments to various grades of posts in different categories of service under Ride 26;
(c) "Board" means a Municipal Board and includes a Municipal Council;
[(d) "Commission" means the Commission constituted under these rules;]
(e) "Director" means the Director of Local Bodies, Rajasthan;
(f) "Direct recruitment" means recruitment made otherwise than by promotion, as prescribed in Rule 7(a);
(g) "Government and State" means respectively the Government and State of Rajasthan;
(h) "Member of the Service" means a person appointed in a substantive capacity to a post in the Service under the provisions of these rules and includes a person placed on probation or appointed in temporary or officiating capacity.
(i) "Schedule" means a schedule appended to these Rules;
(j) "Service" means the Rajasthan Municipal Service created and constituted by the Government under section 302 of the Act;
(k) "Substantive Appointment" means an appointment made under the provisions of these rules to a substantive vacancy after the selection by any of the methods of recruitment prescribed under these rules and includes all appointments on probation or as a probationer followed by confirmation on the probationary period.
(l) Words and the expressions used but not defined in these Rules shall have the meaning assigned to them in the Act.