Rule 2. Definitions

(1) In these rules, unless the subject or context otherwise requires, -(a) “appeal” means an appeal preferred under clause (b) of sub-section (7) of Section 37, sub-section (8) of Section 56, sub-section (3) of Section 72, sub-section (1) of Section 99;

(b) "Appellate authority" means 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 Section 105 of the Code, appointed by the State Government, as the case may be;

(c) “Assessing Officer” means a Gazetted officer of a State Government or an officer of a local authority holding an equivalent post to a Gazetted officer of the State Government appointed by such 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 Uttar Pradesh Unorganised Workers Social Security Board and the Uttar Pradesh Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board constituted under sub-section (9) of Section 6 of the Code and under sub section (1) of Section 7 of the code respectively;

(f) “Career centre (State)” 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) “Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh Unorganised Workers’ Welfare Board or the Uttar Pradesh Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board, 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 (Act no 36 of 2020);

(k) “Court” means the employee insurance court constituted under sub-section (1) of Section 48 of the Code;

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

(m) “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;

(n) “Form” means a form appended to these rules;

(o) “Fund” means the Social Security Fund, as specified under section 108 and sub-section (5) of Section 141, as the case may be;

(p) “Government Securities” means Government Securities as defined in the Government Securities Act, 2006 (Act no. 38 of 2006);

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

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

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

(t) “Portal” means Shram Suvidha Portal of Government of India or official web-portal of Labour Department or Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board or Uttar Pradesh Unorganised Workers Social Security Board or any other portal governed by Government of Uttar Pradesh;

(u) “Registered medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner whose name has been enrolled in the register maintained under any law for the time being in force regulating the registration of practitioners of medicine;

(v) “Register of woman employees” means a register of women employees maintained under rule 55;

(w) “Schedule” means the Schedule of the Code;

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

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

(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