In these rules unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) ‘Act’ Means the Karnataka Education Act, 1983 (Karnataka Act 1 of 1995);
(b) ‘Annexure’ means an annexure to these rules ;
(c) ‘Camp Office’ means an office temporarily established by the department at any place to facilitate depositing or distribution of question papers and answer scripts, and for evaluation of answer scripts or any other works connected with the examination;
(d) ‘Candidate’ means either a regular student, a repeater or a private student whose application for appearance in an examination has been accepted by the Department;
(e) ‘Department’ means the Department of Pre-University Education;
(f) ‘Examination’ means the State Leave Public Examination conducted by the Department of at the end of each academic year of the Pre-University Course and includes a supplementary examination;
(g) ‘Examiner’ includes a question paper setter and an evaluator of answer scripts;
(h) ‘Head of the Institution’ means the Principal or Head of a College imparting Pre- University Education;
(i) ‘Institution’ includes a composite or independent Pre-University College or other college imparting Pre-University Education recognised by the department;
(j) ‘Lecturer’ means a member of the teaching staff in an institution;
(k) ‘Near Relative’ means a son, grand son, husband, brother, brother’s son, sister, sister’s son, daughter, daughter’s son, wife, brother’s daughter, son-in-law or daughter-in-law in relation to the candidate;
(l) ‘Physically handicapped candidates’ means a blind or other physically handicapped candidate who has more than sixty percent of debility as certified by the District Surgeon or any other appropriate authority specified by the Director from time to time;
(m) ‘Private Student’ means a person who is not a regular student or a repeater and who has completed the age of eighteen years as on 31st March of academic year, and has passed the X standard examination;
(n) 'Regualr Student' means a student who has satisfactorily completed the two years course prescribed by the Department in an instituteion deuring the academic year for which he submits the application for examination who is still on the rolls of the institution;
(o) ‘Regulation’ means the detailed instructions contained in the “Hand book of regulations, Course of study, Scheme of examination and syllabus” issued by the Department from time to time;
(p) ‘Repeater’ means a student who has satisfactorily completed two years course prescribed by the department in an institution in an year earlier to the academic year in which he submits the application for examination and either has failed in the previous examinations or has not given an examination at all or having passed all the subjects in previous examinations has been permitted to reject the results of the examination;
(q) ‘Section’ means a section of the Act;
(r) ‘Specified’ means specified by the Department by notification in accordance with the rule 36 ;
(s) ‘Writer’ means a person appointed under rule 18 to assist a physically handicapped candidate.