Section 2. Definitions

2. In this Act (a) appointed date, means the twenty-fourth day of November 1975; 1[ (a-1) Bench means a Bench of the Tribunal; (a-2) Chairman means the Chairman of the Tribunal; 2[ (a-2A) Chief Justice means the Chief Justice of the High Court,] (a-3) District Judge means the District Judge within the meaning of the Bengal, Agra and Assam Civil Courts Act, 1887; 3[ (a-3A) Legal representative means a person, who in law represents the estate of the deceased person and includes a person in whom the right to receive pensionary, retirement, terminal or other benefits vests.] (a-4) Member means a Judicial or Administrative member of the Tribunal and includes its Chairman and Vice-Chairman;] 4[ (aa) Presenting Officer includes an Assistant Presenting Officer appointed by the State Government ;] 5[ (b) public servant means every person in the service or pay of (i) The State Government ; or (ii) a local authority not being a Cantonment Board ; or 6[(iii) any other corporation owned or controlled by the State Government (including any company as defined in section 3 of the Companies Act, 1956, in which not less than fifty per cent of the paid up share capital is held by the State Government) but does not include 7[ (bb) ‘‘service matter’’ means a matter relating to the conditions of service of a public servant,] 8[ (c) ‘‘Tribunal’’ means the Tribunal constituted under section 3; 9[ (d) ‘Vice-Chairman’ means the Vice-Chairman (Judicial) or Vice Chairman (Administrative) of the Tribunal.]