In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires –
(a) “Act” means the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923 (Central Act VIII of 1923) ;
(b) “asbestosis” means-
(i) a pulmonary fibroses which manifests itself radiologically as a ground glass appearance of the pulmonary field in straitions or reticular formations more or less marked, particularly diffuse at the bases or diffuse stippling of reticulation over extensive areas of both lung fields, whether or not accompanied by signs of pulmonary tuberculosis, and
(ii) clinically by the presence of asbestos bodies in the sputum, accompanied by tracheobronchitis and emphysema;
(c) “bagassosis” means a disease which –
(i) manifests itself as an acute allergic response due to sensitisation of the individual to bagasse dust, and
(ii) radiologically, consists of increase in the vascular shadows and increase in haziness and reticulation all over the lungs and increase in the hilar densiters and some mottling. In acute phases patchy shadows resembling bronchopneumonia may be seen;
(d) “Government” means the State Government;
(e) “Medical Board” means the Pneumoconiosis Medical Board constituted by the Government under rule 4 or any Medical Board recognised by the Government for the purposes of these rules;
* Vide Part V of the Fort St. George Gazette, dated the 11th Augusy 1965, at p.828
(f) “Pneumoconiosis” means silicosis or coalminer’s pneumoconiosis or asbestosis or bagassosis or any of these diseases accompanied by pulmonary tuberculosis.