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Enclosed switch-station

Enclosed switch-station, means any premises or en-closure or part thereof, being large enough to admit the entrance of a person after the apparatus therein is in position, containing apparatus for switching, controlling or otherwise regulating energy at or above medium voltage but not for transforming or converting energy (other than for transforming or converting solely for the operation of switchgear or instruments), and includes the apparatus therein. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, R. 2 (1) (u)]...


Enclosed sub-station

Enclosed sub-station, means any premises or en-closure or part thereof, being large enough to admit the entrance of a person after the apparatus therein is in position, containing apparatus for trans-forming or converting energy to or from a voltage at or above medium voltage (other than trans-forming or converting solely for the operation of switchgear or instruments) with or without any other apparatus for switching, controlling or otherwise regulating the energy, and includes the apparatus therein. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, R. 2 (1) (t)]...


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)]...


Sub-station

Sub-station, means a station for transforming or converting electricity for the transmission or distribution thereof and includes transformers, converters, switch gears, capacitors, synchronous condensers, structures, cable and other appurtenant equipment and any buildings used for that purpose and the site thereof. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(69)...


Bait and switch

Bait and switch, means a sales practice whereby a merchant advertises a low-priced product to lure customers into the store only to induce them to buy a higher priced product. Most States prohibit the bait and switch when the original product is not actually available are advertised, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 137....


Officer in charge of a police station

Officer in charge of a police station, includes, when the officer in charge of the police station is absent from the station-house or unable from illness or other cause to perform his duties, the police officer present at the station-house who is next in rank to such officer and is above the rank of constable or, when, the State Government so directs, any other police officer so present. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 2(o)]The sub-Inspector and other senior officers were away on other duty. A clerk attached to the station an 'officer in charge of the police station', Pyli Yaccob v. State, AIR 1953 Trav 466....


Station to station rate

Station to station rate, means a special reduced rate applicable to a specific commodity booked between specified stations. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 2(38)]...


bait and switch

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Knife switch

A switch consisting of one or more knifelike pieces hinged at one end and making contact near the other with flat gripping springs...


Point switch

A switch made up of a rail from each track both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track...


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