law: Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007
  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.