Legal Services Authorities Act : DEFINITIONS Indian Bare Acts :

Legal Services Authorities Act,1987

Act No : 39

Section : DEFINITIONS

SECTION 22A: DEFINITIONS.

In this Chapter and for the purposes of Sees. 22 and 23, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) "Permanent Lok Adalat" means a Permanent Lok Adalat established under sub-sec. (1) of Sec. 22-B;

(b) "public utility service" means any—

(i) transport service for the carriage of passengers or goods by air, road or water; or

(ii) postal, telegraph or telephone service; or

(iii) supply of power, light or water to the public by any establishment; or

(iv) system of public conservancy or sanitation; or

(v) service in hospital or dispensary; or

(vi) insurance service, and includes any service which the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be, may, in the public interest, by notification, declare to be a public utility service for the purposes of this Chapter.