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/ State legislature or Central Public Sector Undertaking/State Public Sector Undertakings or Special Purpose Vehicle as notified by the Central Government/State Government.

(b) “Appeal” means an appeal preferred under clause (b) of sub-section (7) of section 37 or sub section (8) of section 56 or sub-section (3) of section 72 or sub-section (1) of section 99 and sub-section (1) of section 105, as the case may be;

(c) "Appellate authority" means the State Government or the authority specified by the State Government under clause (b) of sub-section (7) of section 37 or sub section (8) of section 56 or sub-section (3) of section 72 or sub-section (1) of section 99 and sub-section (1) of section 105, appointed by the State Government, as the case may be;

(d) “Assessing Officer” means a gazetted officer of a State Government appointed by such State Government for assessment of Cess under the Code;

(e) “Authority” means the State Government or the authority specified by the State Government for the purpose of sub-section (3) of section 72:

(f) “Career centre” means that career centre as notified by the State Government;

(g) “cess collector” means an officer appointed by the State Government for collection of cess under the Code;

(h) “chartered engineer” means a person having an engineering degree and the corporate membership of Institute of Engineers India;

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

(j) “Competent authority” means an authority appointed under section 91 of the Code by the State Government;

(k) “Electronically” means any information or communication submitted by email or uploading on the designated portal or digital payment in any mode for the purpose of 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 Employees’ State Insurance Fund, the Employees’ Provident Fund, the Employees’ Pension Fund, the Employees’ Deposit-Linked Insurance Fund or the 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 a person designated by Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board or the State Government to facilitate the registration, renewal and updation electronically or otherwise or any such other function of Building Workers working in the Private Sector, State Government, Central Government and Public Sector Undertakings of the Central and the State Governments or local authority. The Nodal officer shall also supervise and monitor functions of the Beneficiary Registering Officers designated by Appropriate Government;

(s) “Nomination” means nomination made under section 55 of the code;

(t) “Schedule” means the schedule of the Code;

(u) “Section” means a section of the Code;

(v) “ShramSuvidha Portal” means portal of Ministry of Labour and Employment with such name

(w) "Specified" means specified by an order of the Central Governemnt or any State Governemnt or any officer so authorised by such Governemnt;

(x) “Standard Benefit Rate” means average daily wages obtained by dividing the total wages paid during the Contribution period by the number of days for which these wages were paid;

(y) “Year” shall mean the financial year, 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 or corresponding central rules, shall have their respective meaning as assigned to them in the Code or corresponding central rules.