law: The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 2013
  2.   Definitions
  1.  
  
    In
  
  this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
  a.   “Authority” means the
  
  Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority established under sub-section
  
  (1) of section 3;
  b.   “central
  
  recordkeeping agency” means an agency registered under section 27 to perform
  
  the functions of recordkeeping, accounting, administration and customer service
  
  for subscribers to schemes;
  c.   “Chairperson” means
  
  the Chairperson of the Authority;
  d.   “document” shall
  
  include any matter written, expressed or described upon any substance by means
  
  of letters, figures or marks, or by more than one of those means, in printed or
  
  in electronic version, which is intended to be used, or which may be used, by
  
  the Interim Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority, or Authority or
  
  an intermediary or any other entity connected with the National Pension System,
  
  for the purpose of recording that matter;
  e.   “individual pension
  
  account” means an account of a subscriber, executed by a contract setting out
  
  the terms and conditions under the National Pension System;
  f.   “Interim Pension Fund
  
  Regulatory and Development Authority” means the Interim Pension Fund Regulatory
  
  and Development Authority set up by the Central Government through Resolutions
  
  No. F. No. 5/7/2003-ECB&PR, dated the 10th October, 2003 and F. No.
  
  1(6)/2007-PR, dated the 14th November, 2008;
  g.   “intermediary”
  
  includes pension fund, central recordkeeping agency, National Pension System
  
  Trust, pension fund adviser, retirement adviser, point of presence and such
  
  other person or entity connected with collection, management, recordkeeping and
  
  distribution of accumulations;
  h.   “member” means a
  
  member of the Authority and includes its Chairperson;
  i.   “National Pension
  
  System” means the contributory pension system referred to in section 20 whereby
  
  contributions from a subscriber are collected and accumulated in an individual
  
  pension account using a system of points of presence, a central recordkeeping
  
  agency and pension funds as may be specified by regulations;
  j.   "National
  
  Pension System Trust" means the Board of Trustees who hold the assets of
  
  subscribers for their benefit;
  k.   “notification” means
  
  a notification published in the Official Gazette;
  l.   “pension fund” means
  
  an intermediary which has been granted a certificate of registration under
  
  sub-section (3) of section 27 by the Authority as a pension fund for receiving
  
  contributions, accumulating them and making payments to the subscriber in the
  
  manner as may be specified by regulations;
  m.   “Pension Regulatory
  
  and Development Fund” means the fund constituted under sub-section (1) of
  
  section 40;
  n.   “point of presence”
  
  means an intermediary registered with the Authority under sub-section (3) of
  
  section 27 as a point of presence and capable of electronic connectivity with
  
  the central recordkeeping agency for the purposes of receiving and transmitting
  
  funds and instructions and pay out of funds;
  o.   “prescribed” means
  
  prescribed by rules made under this Act;
  p.   “regulated assets”
  
  means the assets and properties, both tangible and intangible, owned, leased or
  
  developed by and other rights belonging to, the central recordkeeping agency;
  q.   “regulations” means
  
  the regulations made by the Authority under this Act;
  r.   “scheme” means a
  
  scheme of pension fund approved by the Authority under this Act;
  s.   “Securities Appellate
  
  Tribunal” means a Securities Appellate Tribunal established under sub-section
  
  (1) of section 15K of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992;
  t.   “subscriber” includes
  
  a person who subscribes to a scheme of a pension fund;
  u.   “Subscriber Education
  
  and Protection Fund” means the fund constituted under sub-section (1) of
  
  section 41;
  v.   “Trustee Bank"
  
  means a banking company as defined in the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.
  2.  Words
  
  and expressions used and not defined in this Act, but defined in-
   
  
   i.  
  
    the
  
  Insurance Act, 1938;
  the
  
  Companies Act, 1956;
   
  
   iii.  
  
    the
  
  Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956; and
   
  
   iv.  
  
    the
  
  Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992, shall have the meanings
  
  respectively assigned to them under those Acts.