2. Definitions .-In this Act, unless th e context otherwise requires, -
(1)“authorised ” means authoris ed by a railway administration;
2[(1A) “Authority ” means the Rail Land Development Authority constituted under section 4A;] (2)“carriage ” means the carriage of passengers or goo ds by a railway administration; (3)“Claims Tribunal ” means the Railway Claims Tribunal established under section 3 of the
Railw ay Claims T ribunal Act, 1987 (54 of 1987); (4)“classification ” means the classification of commodities made under section 31 for the
purpose of determining the rates to be charged fo r carriage of such commodities; (5)“class rates ” means the rate fixed fo r a class of c ommodity in the classification; (6)“Commissioner ” means the Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety or the Commissioner of
Railway Sa fety appointed under section 5; (7)“commodity ” means a specific item of goods;
3[(7A) “competent authority” means any person authorised by the Central Government, by
notification, to perform the functions of the competent authority for such area as may be specified in
the notification; ] (8)“consignee ” means the person named as consignee in a railway receipt; (9)“consignment ” means goods entrusted to a railw ay administration for carriage; (10)“consignor ” means the person, named in a railway receipt as consignor, by whom or on
whose behalf goods covered by the railway receipt are entrusted to a railw ay administ ration for
carriage; (11)“demurrage ” means the charge levied for the detention of any rolling stock after the expiry
of free time, if a ny, allowed for such detention; (12)“endorsee ” means the person in whose favour an endorsement is made, and in the case of
successive endorsements, the person in whose favou r the last endorsement is made;