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Bare acts > Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 > Section 2
 
  


 

2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) “children” includes son, daughter, grandson and grand-daughter but does not include a minor;

(b) “maintenance” includes provision for food, clothing, residence and medical attendance and treatment;

(c) “minor” means a person who, under the provisions of the Indian Majority Act, 1875, (9 of 1875) is deemed not to have attained the age of majority;

(d) “parent” means father or mother whether biological, adoptive or step father or step mother, as the case may be, whether or not the father or the mother is a senior citizen;

(e) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made by the State Government under this Act;

(f) “property” means property of any kind, whether movable or immovable, ancestral or self acquired, tangible or intangible and includes rights or interests in such property;

(g) “relative” means any legal heir of the childless senior citizen who is not a minor and is in possession of or would inherit his property after his death;

(h) “senior Citizen” means any person being a citizen of India, who has attained the age of sixty years or above;

(i) “State Government”, in relation to a Union territory, means the administrator thereof appointed under article 239 of the Constitution;

(j) “Tribunal” means the Maintenance Tribunal constituted under section 7;

(k) “welfare” means provision for food, health care, recreation centres and other amenities necessary for the senior citizens.

 

 

 

 

 

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