In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-
(a)“Board” means the Tamilnadu Water supply and Drainage Board Constituted under section 4 of the Tamilnadu Water supply and Drainage Board Act, 1970 (Tamil Nadu Act 4 of 1971):
Provided that the powers of the Board shall be exercisable even when the employee is outside India whether on duty, leave or on foreign service.
(b) “Officer or Servant” means an officer or servant of the Tamilnadu Water supply and Drainage Board but does not include a servant of the Central or State Government or of a Local authority whose services have been lent to the Board.
(c) Words importing the masculine gender shall be taken to include women also, if circumstances so require.
(d) “Members of family” in relation to an Officer or Servant include-
(i) The wife, child or step-child of such officer or servant whether residing with him or not and in relation to a Board’s officer or servant who is a woman, the husband residing with her and dependent on her; and 2
(ii) any other person related, whether by blood or by marriage to the officer or servant or to such officer’s or servant’s wife or husband and wholly dependent on such officer or servant, but do not include a wife or husband legally separated from the officer or servant, or a child or step-child who is no longer in any way dependent upon him or her, or of whose custody the officer or servant has been deprived by law.