69 ANNEXURE P-1 NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 27th October, 2009 G.S.R. 780 (E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (y) of sub-section (2) of section 87, read with sub-section (2) of section 69 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely: 1. Short title and commencement.— (1) These rules may be called the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Interception, Monitoring and Decryption of Information) Rules, 2009. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. Definitions.— In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,-(a) “Act” means the Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000); (b) “communication” means dissemination, transmission, carriage of information or signal in some manner and include both a direct communication and an indirect communication”; (c) “communication link” means the use of satellite, microwave, radio, terrestrial line, wire, wireless or any other communication media to inter-connect computer resource; (d) “competent authority” means--