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Definations.- (1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) “Act” means the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885); (b) “appropriate authority” means the Central Government,respective State Governments, Local authority or such authority, body, company or installation incorporated or established by the Central Government or the State Government, in respect of property, under, over, along, across, in or upon which underground or overground telegraph infrastructure, is to be established or maintained, vested in, or under, the control or management of such appropriate authority; (c) “ State Government” means the State Government having Jurisdiction, and includes the administration of Union territory; (d) “Licensee” means any person holding a licence issued under sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Act; (e) “ Overground telegraph telegraph infrastructure” means a telegraph or a telegraph line establishment or maintenance of the telegraph line. (f) “rule” means the Indian Telegraph Right of Way Rules, 2016. (g) “underground telegraph infrastructure” means a telegraph line laid under the ground and includes manholes, marker stones, applications and apparatus for the purposes of establishment or maintenance of the telegraph line.