Section-2 Definitions

---

Section-2 Definitions.-

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

a.     “children” includes son, daughter, grandson and grand-daughter but does not include a minor;

b.    “maintenance” includes provision for food, clothing, residence and medical attendance and treatment;

c.     “minor” means a person who, under the provisions of the Indian Majority Act, 1875, (9 of 1875) is deemed not to have attained the age of majority;

d.    “parent” means father or mother whether biological, adoptive or step father or step mother, as the case may be, whether or not the father or the mother is a senior citizen;

e.     “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made by the State Government under this Act;

f.     “property” means property of any kind, whether movable or immovable, ancestral or self acquired, tangible or intangible and includes rights or interests in such property;

g.    “relative” means any legal heir of the childless senior citizen who is not a minor and is in possession of or would inherit his property after his death;

h.     “senior Citizen” means any person being a citizen of India, who has attained the age of sixty years or above;

i.      “State Government”, in relation to a Union territory, means the administrator thereof appointed under article 239 of the Constitution;

j.      “Tribunal” means the Maintenance Tribunal constituted under section 7;

k.     “welfare” means provision for food, health care, recreation centers and other amenities necessary for the senior citizens.

 View Previous | View Next