Legal glossary
“dependant”
Defined in 3 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Code on Social Security, 2020 · s. 2
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Read section 2The Provident Funds Act, 1925 · s. 2
(c) "dependant" means any of the following relatives of[-] a deceased subscriber to, or a depositor in, a Provident Fund, namely, a wife, husband, parent, child, minor brother, unmarried sister and a deceased son's widow and child, and, where no parent of the subscriber or depositor is alive, a paternal grand-parent;
Read section 2The Railways Act, 1989 · s. 123
(b) "dependant" means any of the following relatives of a deceased passenger, namely:—
Read section 123