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

(1) “Civil defence organization” means any organization established for civil defence purposes which is declared by a scheme to be a civil defence organization for the purposes of this Act and the scheme;

(2) “Civil defence volunteer” in relation to any injury, means a person certified, by an officer of a civil defence organization authorized by the Central Government to grant such certificates, to have been a member of that organization at the time when the injury was sustained;

(3) “Enemy” means-

(i) Any person or country committing external aggression against India;

(ii) Any person belonging to any country committing such aggression,

(iii) Such other country as may be declared by the Central Government to be assisting the country committing such aggression;

(iv) Any person belonging to such other country;

(4) “Gainfully occupied person” means a person who is engaged in any trade, business, profession, office, employment or vocation and is wholly or substantially dependent thereon for a livelihood, or a person who, though temporarily unemployed, is normally so engaged and dependent;

(5) “Period of emergency” means, in relation to the proclamation of emergency issued under Cl. (I) of Art. 352 of the Constitution, -

(i) On the 26th day of October, 1962, the period beginning with the 26th day of October, 1962, and ending with the 10th day of January, 1968, that is to say, the date on which the said emergency was declared, by notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Home Affairs, No. G. S. R. 93, dated 10th January. 1968, to have come to an end;

(ii) On the 3rd day of December, 1971, the period beginning with the 3rd day of December, 1971, and ending with such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be the date on which the emergency shall come to an end;

(6) “Personal injury” means a physical or mental injury and includes any disease whether manifesting itself immediately or subsequently-

(a) Caused by-

(i) The discharge of any missile (including liquid or gas or both),

(ii) The use of any weapon, explosive or other noxious thing, or

(iii) The doing of any other injurious act, either by the enemy or in combating the enemy or in repelling an imagined attack by the enemy; or

(b) Caused by the impact, on any person or property, of any enemy aircraft or any aircraft belonging to or held by any person on behalf of or for the benefit of the Government of India or any allied power, or any part of, or anything dropped from, any such aircraft; or

(c) Caused by any explosion or fire which involves any explosives or munitions or other dangerous things, required for the purposes of defence against the enemy and which happens or is caused by, through, or in connexion with the manufacture, storage or transportation of any such explosive, munition or other dangerous things;

(7) “Personal service injury”, in relation to a civil defence volunteer, means any physical or mental injury, or a disease whether manifesting itself immediately or subsequently, shown to the satisfaction of the Central Government or other authority authorized to make payments under a scheme to have arisen out of and in the course of the performance by the volunteer of his duties as a member of the civil defence organization to which he belonged at the time when the injury was sustained or the disease was contracted, and (except in the case of personal injury) not to have arisen out of', and in the course of, his employment in any other capacity-.

Provided that before being so satisfied, the Central Government or other authority authorized to make payments under a scheme shall have received from the civil defence organization of which the volunteer concerned was a member at the time when the injury was sustained or the disease was contracted, by an officer of the organization authorized by the Central Government to make such reports, about the injury or the disease in question; or

(8) “Scheme” means a scheme made under this Act.

 

 

 

 

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