(l) These rules may be called the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (Co-option of Members) Rules, 1974.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2 . Definition: In these rules, unless the context omerwise requires-
(a) "Act" means the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1971 (82 of 1971);
(b) "Committee" means the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee established under section 3;
(c) "Continuing candidate" means any candidate not elected and not excluded from the poll at any given time;
(d) "count" means-
(i) all the operations involved in the counting of the first preference recorded for candidates; or
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(iii) all the operations involved in the transfer of the total value of votes of an excluded candidate;
(e) "Director" means the Director Gurdwara Elections appointed by the Administrator under section 13;
(f) "elected member" means a member of the Committee elected under the provision of clause (a) of section 4;
(g) "Election officer" means the Election Officer as defined in the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (Election of Members) Rules, 1974;
(h) "exhausted paper" means a ballot paper on which no further preference is recorded for a continuing candidate, provided that a paper shall also the deemed to have become exhausted whenever-
(i) the names of two or more candidates, whether continuing or not are marked following with the same figure and are next in order of preference; or
(ii) the name of the candidate next in order of preference, whether continuing or not, is marked by a figure not following consecutively after some other figure on the ballot paper or by two or more figures;
(i) "first preference" means the figure 1 set opposite the name of a candidate; "second preference" means the figure 2 set opposite the name o f a candidate; and "third preference" means the figure 3 set opposite the name of a candidate, and so on;
(j) "Form" means a Form appended to these rules, and includes a translation thereof in Punjabi in Gurmukhi Script.
(k) "original vote" in relation to any candidate means a vote derived from the ballot paper on which a first preference is recorded for such candidate;
(1) "Polling Station" means the place of meeting appointed by the Director for co-option of members under section 14;
(m) "Section" means a section of the Act.
(n) "surplus" means the number by which the value of the votes, original and transferred, of any candidate exceeds the quota;
(o) "transferred vote" in relation to any candidate, means a vote the value or the part of the value of which is credited to such candidate and which is derived from a ballot paper on which a second or a subsequent preference is recorded for such candidate; and
(p) "unexhausted paper" means a ballot paper on which a further preference is recorded for a continuing candidate.
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