Section Text
Inthis Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,--
(a)theemployment of a railway servant is said to be "continuous" except whenit is excluded or has been declared to be essentially intermittent or intensive;
(b)theemployment of a railway servant is said to be "essentiallyintermittent" when it has been declared to be so by the prescribedauthority on the ground that the daily hours of duty of the railway servantnormally include periods of inaction aggregating to fifty percent, or more(including at least one such period of not less than one hour or two suchperiods of not less than half an hour each) in a tour of twelve hours duty (onthe average over seventy-two consecutive hours), during which the railwayservant may be on duty, but is not called upon to display either physicalactivity or sustained attention;
(c)theemployment of a railway servant is said to be "excluded" if he belongsto any one of the following categories, namely:--
(i)railway servants employed in a managerial or confidential capacity;
(ii)armed guards or other personnel subject to discipline similar to that of any ofthe armed police forces;
(iii)staff of the railway schools imparting technical training or academic education;
(iv)such staff as may be specified as supervisory under the rules;
(v) such othercategories of staff as may be prescribed;
(d)the employment of a railway servant is said to be "intensive" when ithas been declared to be so by the prescribed authority on the ground that it isof a strenuous nature involving continued concentration or hard manual labourwith little or no period of relaxation.