law: The Rehabilitation Council of India Act, 1992
  2. Definitions.
  1.  
  
    In
  
  this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--
  a.   "Chairperson"
  
  means the Chairperson of the Council appointed under sub-section (3) of section
  
  3;
  b.   "Council"
  
  means the Rehabilitation Council of India constituted under section 3;
  c.   "handicapped"
  
  means a person-
   
  
   i.  
  
    visually
  
  handicapped;
   
  
   ii.  
  
    hearing
  
  handicapped;
   
  
   iii.  
  
    suffering
  
  from locomotor disability; or
   
  
   iv.  
  
    suffering
  
  from mental retardation;
  a.  
  
  
  b.  
  
  
  c.  
  
  
  d.  
  
    "hearing
  
  handicap" means deafness with hearing impairment of 70 decibels and above,
  
  in the better ear or total loss of hearing in both ears;
  e.  
  
    "locomotor
  
  disability" means a persons inability to execute distinctive activities
  
  associated with moving, both himself and objects, from place to place, and such
  
  inability resulting from affliction of either bones, joints, muscles or nerves;
  f.  
  
    "member"
  
  means a member appointed under sub-section (3) of section 3 and includes the
  
  Chairperson;
  g.  
  
    "Member-Secretary"
  
  means the Member-Secretary appointed under sub-section (1) of section 8;
  h.  
  
    "mental
  
  retardation" means a condition of arrested or incomplete development of
  
  mind of a person which is specially characterised by sub-normality of
  
  intelligence;
  i.  
  
    "notification"
  
  means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
  j.  
  
    "prescribed"
  
  means prescribed by regulations;
  k.  
  
    "recognised
  
  rehabilitation qualifications" means any of the qualifications included in
  
  the Schedule;
  l.  
  
    "Register"
  
  means the Central Rehabilitation Register maintained under sub-section (1) of
  
  section 23;
  m.  
  
    "regulations"
  
  means regulations made under this Act;
  n.  
  
    "rehabilitation
  
  professionals" means-
   
  
   i.  
  
    audiologists
  
  and speech therapists;
  clinical
  
  psychologists;
   
  
   iii.  
  
    hearing
  
  aid and ear mould technicians;
   
  
   iv.  
  
    rehabilitation
  
  engineers and technicians;
   
  
   v.  
  
    special
  
  teachers for educating and training the handicaped;
   
  
   vi.  
  
    vocational
  
  counsellors, employment officers and placement officers dealing with
  
  handicapped;
   
  
   vii.  
  
    multi-purpose
  
  rehabilitation therapists, technicians; or
   
  
   viii.  
  
    such
  
  other category of professionals as the Central Government may, in consultation
  
  with the Council, notify from time to time;
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  o.  
  
    "visually
  
  handicapped" means a person who suffers from any of the following
  
  conditions, namely:--
   
  
   i.  
  
    total
  
  absence of sight;
  visual
  
  acquity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye with the
  
  correcting lenses; or
   
  
   iii.  
  
    limitation
  
  of the field of vision subtending and angle of degree or worse.
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  2.  
  
    Any
  
  reference in this Act to any enactment or any provision thereof shall, in
  
  relation to an area in which such enactment or such provision is not in force,
  
  be construed as a reference to the corresponding law or the relevant provision
  
  of the corresponding law, if any, in force in that area.