Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (a) "Commission" means the Commission constituted under section 10; (b) "days" means working days of the public authority concerned; (c) "designated officer" means an officer designated as per section 4; (d) "electronic mode" means any method, process or application to deliver any service electronically including, but not limited to Government to Government, Government to citizen or Government to business transactions, data interchange and other digital supply transactions whether conducted through e-mail, mobile services, cloud computing, document management, voice or data transmission or otherwise; (e) "electronic service delivery" means the delivery of services through electronic mode; (f) "eligible person" means person who is eligible to obtain services notified under this Act and includes a person duly authorized in writing by such eligible person; (g) "first appellate authority" means an officer notified as per section 4; (h) "Government" means the Government of Kerala; (i) "head of the department" means the Secretary to Government, Director, Commissioner, Registrar or any other officer in charge of a Government Institution; (j) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (k) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (l) "public authority" means an authority or body or Local Self Government Institution established or constituted,-- (i) by or under the Constitution; (ii) by any other law made by Parliament; (iii) by any other law made by State Legislature; (iv) by notification issued or order made by the Government and includes; (a) any body owned, controlled or substantially financed directly or indirectly by the funds provided by the Government; and (b) any other body which is required to render public service as may be notified by the Government from time to time; (m) "public service" means public services rendered by the Government, electronically or otherwise, and includes services notified by the department concerned as per section 4 of this Act; (n) "special public service" means services notified by the department concerned as per section 4, for the purpose of sub-section (6) of section 5 of the Act; (o) "State" means the State of Kerala; (p) "second appellate authority" means an officer not below the rank of a Joint Secretary notified by the Administrative Department concerned for the purposes of section 8 of the Act; (q) "stipulated time limit" means the time limit specified under section 4 of this Act for rendering service by the designated officer.