Rule 2. Definitions

(1) In these rules, unless the subject or context otherwise requires:-

(a) “Agency” means any corporation, body or institution, established under an Act of Parliament or State Legislature or Central/State Public Sector Undertaking or Special Purpose Vehicle as notified by the Government ;

(b) "Appellate authority" means the State Government or the authority specified by the State Government under sub-section (8) of Section 56 or an officer senior in rank to the Assessing Officer for the purposes of Sections 103 and 104 of the Code, appointed by the State Government, as the case may be;

(c) “Assessing Officer” means the Labour Officer of the Government of Arunachal Pradesh or an officer of a local authority holding a post equivalent to the Labour Officer and appointed or notified by the State Government for assessment of Cess under the Code;

(d) “Authority” means the State Government or the authority specified by the State Government under sub-section (3) of Section 72;

(e) “Board” means the Arunachal Pradesh Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Board and the Arunachal Pradesh Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board and such other Boards as may be constituted under the provisions of the Code on Social Security 2020, by the government;

(f) “Career Centre” means the Career Centre as notified by the State Government of Arunachal Pradesh as having jurisdiction;

(i) Over the area in which the establishments concerned are situated; or

(ii) Over specified classes or categories of establishments concerned or vacancies.

(iii) Private Sector establishments.

(g) “Cess Collector” means the Labour Officer notified by the Government of Arunachal Pradesh for collection of Cess under the Code;

(h) “Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Corporation, the State Social Security Board, the State Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board, the State Unorganised Workers’ Board, the State Advisory Board, the Standing Committee, the Medical Benefit Committee, the Executive Committee or any other Board/ Committee, as the case may be;

(i) “Chartered Engineer” means a person having an engineering degree and the corporate membership of Institute of Engineers India;

(j) “Code” means the Code on Social Security, 2020 (36 of 2020);

(k) “Electronically” means any information submitted by email or any other electronic medium or uploading on the designated portal or digital payment in any mode for the purpose of the Code;

(l) “Excluded vacancies” means those vacancies which have been excluded from the purview of the Section 139 as per the provisions of sub-sections (1) and (2) of Section 140;

(m) “Form” means a form appended to these Rules;

(n) “Fund” means the Arunachal Pradesh Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Fund and the Arunachal Pradesh Social Security Fund and any other Social Security Fund, as the case may be ;

(o) “Government Securities” means Government Securities as defined in the Government Securities Act, 2006 (38 of 2006);

(p) “Immovable Property” includes land, benefits to arise out of land, things attached to the earth, or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth;

(q) “Movable Property” means property of every description except immovable property;

(r) “Nodal Officer” means the Labour Officer of the State Government to facilitate the registration, renewal and updating electronically or otherwise or any such other function of Building and Other Construction Workers working in the Private Sector, State Government, Central Government and Public Sector Undertakings of the Central or the State Governments or local authority. The Nodal officer shall also supervise and monitor functions of the Beneficiary Registering Officers designated by the Arunachal Pradesh Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board and any such other Social Security Boards constituted under the provisions of the Code on Social Security 2020, by the government;

(s) “Nomination" means nomination made under Section 55 of the code;

(t) “Registered Medical Practitioner” means a person as defined under sub-section 44 of Section 2 of the Code on Social Security,2020.

(u) “Register of Women Employees” means a register of women employees maintained under Rule 79(1).

(v) “Schedule” means the schedule appended to the Code;

(w) “Section” means a Section of the Code;

(x) “Shram Suvidha Portal” means the portal of Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India;

(y) “Specified” means specified by an order of the Central Government or the State Government or any officer so authorized by such Government;

(z) “State Government” shall mean the Government of Arunachal Pradesh;

(za) “Year” shall mean the financial year, that is to say, beginning from the first of April and ending with the thirty-first of March of the year following.

(2) The words and expressions used in these rules which are not defined therein, but are defined in the Code, shall have their respective meaning as assigned to them in the Code.