In these rules unless the context otherwise requires.
(i) ‘Act’ means the Bihar Self-Supporting Cooperative Societies Act, 1996 (Bihar Act, 2 of 1997);
(ii) ‘Tribunal’ means the Cooperative Tribunal constituted under Section 39 of the Bihar Self- Supporting Cooperative Societies Act, 1996;
(iii) ‘Section’ means a section of the Bihar self-supporting cooperative Societies Act, 1996;
(iv) ‘ appeal’ means an appeal preferred to the Tribunal under the Bihar Self supporting Cooperative Societies Act, 1996.
(v) ‘application’ means an application filed to the Tribunal under the Bihar Self-Supporting Cooperative Societies Act, 1996;
(vi) ‘Chairman’ means the Chairman of the Tribunal.
(vii) ‘form’ mean a form appended to these rules;
(viii) ‘gazette’ means the official Gazette of Bihar;
(ix) ‘party’ means the appellant of applicant, as the case may be and in cludes his pleader or any other person on behalf of the appellant or applicant;
(x) ‘opposite party’ means respondents to an appeal or an application and shall include an authority whose orders are proposed to be taken in an appeal;
(xi) ‘respondents’ means opposite party;
(xii) ‘pleader’ means the pleader as defined in clause (15) of section (2) of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 {Central Act V of 1908];
(xiii) ‘Secretary’ means the person who is for the time being discharging the functions of the Secretary to the Tribunal;
(xiv) ‘State Government’ means the Government of Bihar.
(xv) Words and expressions used but not defined shall have the meaning assigned to them in the Act and the rules made there under.
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