Rule 2 - Definitions - Consumer Welfare Fund Rules, 1992

2. Definitions. -In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, - (a) "Act" means the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), or, as the case may be, the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962); (b) "Applicant" means any agency / organisation engaged in consumer welfare activities for a period of three years registered under the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956) or under any other law for the time being in force, including village/mandal/samiti level co-operatives of consumers especially Women, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, or any industry as defined in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947) recommended by the Bureau to be engaged for a period of five years in viable and useful research activity which has made, or is likely to make, significant contribution in formulation of standard mark of the products of mass consumption, the Central Government or the State Government, and includes a consumer for the purpose of reimbursing legal expenses as referred to in clause (d) of rule-8 of these rules; (c) "Application" means an application in Form AI, appended to these rules; (d) "Bureau" means the Bureau of Indian Standards constituted under the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 (63 of 1986); (e) "Central Consumer Protection Council" means the Central Consumer Protection Council established under sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (68 of 1986), for promotion and protection of rights of consumers; (f) "Committee" means the Committee constituted under rule 5; (g) "Consumer" has the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (d) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (68 of 1986), and includes consumer of goods on which duty has been paid; (h) "Consumer Welfare Fund" means the fund established by the Central Government under sub-section (1) of section 12C of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944); (i) "Duty" means the duty paid under the Act; (ia) "Proper Officer" means the officer having the power under the Act to make an order that the whole or any part of the duty is refundable; (j) "Standard mark" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (t) of section 2 of the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 (63 of 1986); (k) "Welfare of the Consumers" includes promotion and protection of rights of consumers; (l) Words and expressions used in the rules and not defined but defined in the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (68 of 1986) shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act.