Definitions - Section 2

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires.--

(1) authorised" means authorised by a railway administration;

¹(1A) Authority means the Rail Land Development Authority constituted under section 4A

(2) "carriage" means the carriage of passengers or goods by a railway administration;

(3) "Claims Tribunal" means the Railway Claims Tribunal established under section 3 of the Railways Claims Tribunal Act, 1987;

(4) "classification" means the classification of commodities made under section 31 for the pur­pose of determining the rates to be charged for carriage of such commodities;

(5) "class rates" means the rate fixed for a class of commodity in the classification;

(6) "Commissioner" means the Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety or the Commissioner of Railway Safety appointed under section 5;

(7) "commodity" means a specific item of goods;

³[(7A) "competent authority" means any person authorised by the Central Government, by notification,

to perform the functions of the competent authority for such area as may be specified in the notification;]

(8) "consignee" means the person named as consignee in a railway receipt;

(9) "consignment" means goods entrusted to a railway administration for carriage;

(10) "consignor" means the person, named in a railway receipt as consignor, by whom or on. whose behalf goods covered by the railway receipt are entrusted to a railway administration for carriage;

(11) "demurrage" means the charge levied for the detention of any rolling stock after the expiry of free time, if any, allowed for such detention;

(12) "endorsee" means the person in whose favour an endorsement is made, and in the case of successive endorsements, the person in whose favour the last endorsement is made;

(13) "endorsement" means the signing by the consignee or the endorsee after adding a d........