(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) ‘Act’ means the Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), including amendments thereto;
(b) ‘Appraisal Committee’ means the Committee constituted by the Commission as per regulation 6 of these regulations;
(c) ‘Commission’ means the Himachal Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission;
(d) ‘Monitoring Committee’ means the committee constituted by the Commission as per regulation 8 of these regulations;
(e) ‘Nodal Agency’ means the agency designated for the purpose of these regulations as per regulation 5 of these regulations;
(f) ‘PSDF’ means the State Power System Development Fund to be opened, operated and maintained by the HPSLDC under the regulation 15 of Himachal Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (Deviation Settlement Mechanism and Related Matters) Regulations, 2018;
(g) ‘Project Entity’ means the State Transmission Utility (STU) or Distribution Licensee or Himachal Pradesh State Load Dispatch Centre (HPSLDC) who may submit the proposal(s) for funding from PSDF under regulation 4 of these regulations and shall also be responsible for execution, operation & maintenance of the scheme sanctioned by the Commission under regulation 10 of these regulations; and
(h) ‘Scheme’ means the proposal for the implementation of a set of works, as approved by the Commission under regulation 7 of these regulations.
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(2) The words and expressions used in these regulations and not defined herein, but defined in the Act or the regulations issued by the Commission, shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Act or in such regulations issued by the Commission; the words and expressions used herein but not specifically defined in these regulations or in the Act, but defined under any law, passed by a competent Legislature and applicable to the electricity industry in the State, shall have the meanings assigned to them in such law; and the words and expressions used herein, but not specifically defined in the regulations or in the Act or any law passed by a competent Legislature, shall have the meanings as are generally assigned to them in the electricity industry.