Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (a) "appropriate Government" means,-- (i) in relation to the Central Government or any establishment wholly or substantially financed by that Government, or a Cantonment Board constituted under the Cantonment Act, 1924 (2 of 1924), the Central Government; (ii) in relation to a State Government or any establishment wholly or substantially financed by that Government or any local authority, other than a Cantonment Board, the State Government; (iii) in respect of the Central Co-ordination Committee and the Central Executive Committee, the Central Government; (iv) in respect of the State Co-ordination Committee and the State Executive Committee, the State Government; (b) "blindness" refers to a condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions, namely:-- (i) total absence of sight; or (ii) visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses; or (iii) limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse; (c) "Central Co-ordination Committee" means the Central Co-ordination Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 3; (d) "Central Executive Committee" means the Central Executive Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 9; (e) "cerebral palsy" means a group of non-progressive conditions of a person characterised by abnormal motor control posture resulting from brain insult or injuries occurring in the pre-natal, peri-natal or infant period of development; (f) "Chief Commissioner" means the Chief Commissioner appointed under sub-section (1) of section 57 (g) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner appointed under sub-section (1) of section 60; (h) "competent authority" means the authority appointed under section 50; (i) "disability" means-- (i) blindness; (ii) low vision; (iii) leprosy-cured; (iv) hearing impairment; (v) locomotor disability; (vi) mental retardation; (viii) mental illness; (j) "employer" means,-- (i) in relation to a Government, the authority notified by the Head of the Department in this behalf or where no such authority is notified, the Head of the Department; and (ii) in relation to an establishment, the Chief Executive Officer of that establishment; (k) "establishment" means a corporation established by or under a Central, Provincial or State Act, or an authority or a body owned or controlled or aided by the Government or a local authority or a Government company as defined in section 617 of the Companies Act 1956 (1 of 1956) and includes Departments of a Government; (l) "hearing impairment" means loss of sixty decibels or more in the better ear in the conversational range of frequencies; (m) "institution for persons with disabilities" means an institution for the reception, care, protection, education, training rehabilitation or any other service of persons with disabilities; (n) "leprosy cured person" means any person who has been cured of leprosy but is suffering from-- (i) loss of sensation in hands or feet as well as loss of sensation and paresis in the eye and eye-lid but with no manifest deformity; (ii) manifest deformity and paresis but having sufficient mobility in their hands and feet to enable them to engage in normal economic activity; (iii) extreme physical deformity as well as advanced age which prevents him from undertaking any gainful occupation, and the expression "leprosy cured" shall be construed accordingly; (o) "locomotor disability" means disability of the bones, joints or muscles leading to substantial restriction of the movement of the limbs or any form of cerebral palsy; (p) "medical authority" means any hospital or institution specified for the purposes of this Act by notification by the appropriate Government; (q) "mental illness" means any mental disorder other than mental retardation; (r) "mental retardation" means a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind of a person which is specially characterised by subnormality of intelligence; (s) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (t) "person with disability" means a person suffering from not less than forty per cent of any disability as certified by a medical authority; (u) "person with low vision" means a person with impairment of visual functioning even after treatment or standard refractive correction but who uses or is potentially capable of using vision for the planning or execution of a task with appropriate assistive device; (v) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (w) "rehabilitation" refers to a process aimed at enabling persons with disabilities to reach and maintain their optimal physical, sensory, intellectual, psychiatric or social functional levels; (x) "Special Employment Exchange" means any office or place established and maintained by the Government for the collection and furnishing of information, either by keeping of registers or otherwise, respecting-- (i) persons who seek to engage employees from amongst the persons suffering from disabilities; (ii) persons with disability who seek employment; (iii) vacancies to which person with disability seeking employment may be appointed; (y) "State Co-ordination Committee" means the State Co-ordination Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 13; (z) "State Executive Committee" means the State Executive Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 19.