In these rules unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) "Act" means the Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1976 (11 of 1976);
(b) "authorised medical attendant" means the medical practitioner authorised by the employer for the purposes of any of the provisions of the Act or the rules made thereunder;
(c) "casual leave" means leave to cover casual absence of the sales promotion employee from duty for personal reasons;
(d) "earned leave" means leave admissible under clause (a) of section 4;
(e) "extraordinary leave" means leave granted to the sales promotion employee in special circumstances and when-
(a) no other leave is admissible; or
(b) other leave is admissible but the employee applies in writing for the grant of extraordinary leave;
(f) "form" means a form appended to these rules;
(g) "leave" means earned leave, leave on medical certificate, extraordinary leave, leave not due, casual leave, study leave or quarantine leave;
(h) "leave not due" means leave which is not due to the sales promotion employee, but which may be granted to him in anticipation of its being earned subsequently;
(i) "leave on medical certificate" means leave admissible under clause (b) of section 4;
(j) "quarantine leave" means leave of absence from duty by reason of the presence of an infectious disease in the house-hold of the sales promotion employee;
(k) "section" means a section of the Act;
(l) "study leave" means leave granted to a sales promotion employee to enable him to undertake a course of study.
