law: The Railway Claims Tribunal Act, 1987
  2. Definitions
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires,-
  a.  
  
    "Application"
  
  means an application made under section 16;
  b.  
  
    "Appointed
  
  day" means the date with
  
  effect from which the Claims Tribunal is established under section 3;
  c.  
  
    "Bench"
  
  means a Bench of the Claims Tribunal;
  d.  
  
    "Chairman"
  
  means the Chairman of the Claims Tribunal;
  e.  
  
    "Claims
  
  Tribunal" means the Railway Claims Tribunal established under section 3;
  f.  
  
    "Judicial
  
  Member" means a Member of the Claims Tribunal appointed as such under this act,
  
  and includes the Chairman or Vice-Chairman who possesses any of the
  
  qualifications specified in sub-section (3) of section 5;
  g.  
  
    "Member"
  
  means a Member (whether Judicial or Technical) of the Claims Tribunal, and
  
  includes the Chairman and Vice-Chairman;
  h.  
  
    "Notification"
  
  means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
  i.  
  
    "Prescribed"
  
  means prescribed by rules;
  j.  
  
    "Railways
  
  Act" means the Indian Railways Act, 1890 (9 of 1890);
  k.  
  
    "Rules"
  
  means rules made under this Act;
  l.  
  
    "Technical
  
  Member" means a Member of the Claims Tribunal who is not a Judicial Member, and
  
  includes the Chairman or a Vice-Chairman who possesses any of the
  
  qualifications specified in sub-section (4) of section 5;
  m.  
  
    "Vice-Chairman"
  
  means a Vice-Chairman of the Claims Tribunal.
  Explanation.-References to the Vice-Chairman
  
  in this Act shall be construed as references to each of the Vice-Chairman;
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    ["Untoward
  
  incident" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (c) of section123 of
  
  the Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989)];
  o.  
  
    Words
  
  and expressions used and not defined in this Act but defined in the Railways
  
  Act or the rules made thereunder shall have the meanings respectively assigned
  
  to them in that Act or the said rules.