law: Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 1999
  2. Definitions
  (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
  (a) "appointed day" means the date
  
  on which the Authority is established under sub-section (1) of section 3;
  (b) "Authority" means the Insurance
  
  Regulatory and Development Authority established under sub-section (1) of
  
  section 3;
  (c) "Chairperson" means the
  
  Chairperson of the Authority;
  (d) "Fund" means the Insurance
  
  Regulatory and Development Authority Fund constituted under sub-section (1) of
  
  section 16;
  (e) "Interim Insurance Regulatory
  
  Authority" means the Insurance Regulatory Authority set up by the Central
  
  Government through Resolution No. 17(2)/94-Ins.-V, dated the 23rd January,
  
  1996;
  (f) "intermediary or insurance
  
  intermediary" includes insurance brokers, re-insurance brokers, insurance
  
  consultants, surveyors and loss assessors;
  (g) "member" means a whole-time or a
  
  part-time member of the Authority and includes the Chairperson;
  (h) "notification" means a
  
  notification published in the Official Gazette;
  ( i )
  
  "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
  (j) "regulations" means the
  
  regulations made by the Authority.
  (2) Words and expressions used and not defined in this Act but
  
  defined in the Insurance Act, 1938 or the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956
  
  or the General Insurance Business (Nationalization) Act, 1972 shall have the
  
  meanings respectively assigned to them in those Acts.