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Cable operator

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. [Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, (7 of 1995), s. 2(aa)]...

Telecasting

Telecasting, the telecasting is of three types, - (a) terrestrial, (b) cable and (c) satellite. In the first case, the signal is generated by the camera stationed at the spot of the event and the signal is then sent to the earthly telecasting station such as the TV centre which is turn relays it through its own frequencies to all the viewers who have TV screens/sets. In the second case, viz., cable telecasting, the cable operator receives the signals from the satellite by means of the parabolic dish antenna and relays them to all those TV screens which are linked to his cable. The last type, viz., satellite TV operation involves the use of a frequency generated, owned or controlled by the national Government or the governmental agen-cies, or those generated, owned and controlled by other agencies, Secy. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India v. Cricket Associa-tion of Bengal, (1995) 2 SCC 161 (187). [Constitution of India, Art. 19(1)(a) and (2)]...

Subscriber

Subscriber, means a person in whose name the Digital Signature Certificate is issued. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2(1) (zg)]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. [Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 (7 of 1995), s. 2 (i)]Includes a person who holds a fraction of a ticket and also a transferee of a ticket thereof by assignment in writing or by operation of law. [Chit Funds Act, 1982 (40 of 1982), s. 2(r)]...

Capstan

A vertical cleated drum or cylinder revolving on an upright spindle and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers It is much used especially on shipboard for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable passing around the drum It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket...

Person

Person, a Hindu Undivided Family is a person, Kshetra Mohan-Sannyasi Charan Sadhukhan v. Commissioner of Excess Profit Tax, West Bengal, AIR 1953 SC 516.According to company law it does not mean an unregistered firm, Firm Pannaji v. Devichand Kapurchand, 99 IC 640.Person, does not include court, Kharka Gigabhai Mavji v. Soni Jagjivan Kanji, (1979) 20 Guj LR 256.Person, implies only an individual and does not bear scrutiny when construed in the case of a company, a firm of partners or an association of persons, J.K. Industries Ltd. v. Chief Inspector of Factories and Boilers, (1997) SCC (205) 1.Person, in an Act of Parliament passed after 1st January, 1890, includes 'any body of persons corporate or unincorporate' unless the contrary intention appears, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 19. A corporation, such as a limited company, may be a 'respectable and responsible person' within the meaning of a covenant against assignment in a lease, Willmott v. London Road Car Co., (1910) 2 Ch 525. A c...

Warranty

Warranty, a guarantee or security; formerly a promise or covenant by deed by the bargainer, for himself and his heirs, to warrant and secure the bargainee and his heirs against all persons for the enjoying of the thing granted accompanied by a promise, express or implied, that if eviction should take place, the warrantor would substitute an equivalent estate in its place-see Co. Litt. 365 a. In that form it has been superseded in practice by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, cc. 27 (s. 39) and 74 (s. 14). See RECOVERY.More generally, a warranty is any agreement either accompanying a transfer of property, or collateral to the contract for such transfer, see Lawrence v. Cassell, (1930) 2 KB 83, and Miller v. Cannon Hill Estates Ltd., (1931) 2 KB 113, or to any other agreement or transaction, and in so far as it is a contract a warranty does not differ from any other contractual promise. A warranty may be express or implied by law or statute.For instances of implied warranties, see that title, CAVEAT EMPTOR, ...

Electric supply-line

Electric supply-line, means a wire, conductor or other means used for conveying, transmitting or distributing energy (whether by overhead line or underground cable), together with any casing, coating, covering, tube, pipe or insulator enclosing, surrounding or supporting the same or any part thereof, or any apparatus connected therewith for the purpose of so conveying, transmitting or distributing such energy and includes any support cross-arm, stay, strut or safety device erected to set up for that purpose. [Indian Electricity Act, 1910, s. 2 (f); See also (60 of 2002), s. 2(1)(d)]Electric Supply-line, shall have the meaning assign-ed to it under clause (f) of s. 2 of the Indian Electri- city Act, 1910 (9 of 1910), Delhi Metro Railway (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002, s. 2(d)....

Generating station

Generating station, 'generating station' or 'station' means any station for generating electricity, including any building and plant with step-up transformer, switch-gear, switch yard, cables or other appurtenant equipment, if any, used for that purpose and the site thereof; a site intended to be used for a generating station, and any building used for housing the operating staff of a generating station, and where electricity is generated by water-power, includes pen stocks, head and tail works, main and regulating reservoirs, dams and other hydraulic works, but does not in any case include any sub-station. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(28)]...

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