law: Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995
  2. Definitions
  In
  
  this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
  (a)
  
  "cable operator' means any person who provides cable service through a
  
  cable television network or otherwise controls or is responsible for the management
  
  and operation of a cable television network;
  (b)
  
  "cable service" means the transmission by cables of programmes
  
  including re-transmission by cable of any broadcast television signals;
  (c)
  
  "cable television network" means any system consisting of a set of
  
  closed transmission paths and associated signal generation, control and
  
  distribution equipment, designed to provide cable service for reception by
  
  multiple subscribers;
  (d)
  
  "company" means a company as defined in section 3 of the Companies Act,
  
  1956 (1 of 1956);
  (e)
  
  "person" means-
  (i) an individual who is a citizen of India;
  (ii) an association of individuals or body of individuals, whether
  
  incorporated or not, whose members are citizen of India;
  (iii) a company in which not less than fifty-one percent of the paid up
  
  share capital is held by the citizens of India;
  (f)
  
  "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
  (g)
  
  "programme" means any television broadcast and includes-
  (i) exhibition of films, features, dramas, advertisement and serials
  
  through video cassette recorders or video cassette players;
  (ii) any audio or visual or audio-visual live performance or
  
  presentation, and the expression "programme service" shall be
  
  construed accordingly;
  (h)
  
  "registering authority" means such authority as the Central
  
  Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify to perform the
  
  functions of the registering authority under this Act;
  (i)
  
  "subscriber" means a person who receives the signals of cable
  
  television network at a place indicated by him to the cable operator, without
  
  further transmitting it to any other person.