In these rules, unless the context requires otherwise,—
(1) “ Act” means the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 (Mah. XXIV of 1961);
(2) “ ballot box” includes any box, bag or other receptacle used for the insertion of ballot paper by voters or electronic voting machine;
(3) “bye-laws” means bye laws framed under the Act;
(4) “CEO” means an administrative head of the society by whatever name called;
(5) “committee” means the Committee of management or board of directors or the governing body or the directing body of a co-operative society, by whatever name called, in which the management of the affairs of a society is entrusted;
(6) “constituency” means an electoral division as specified in the bye-laws of the society;
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(7) “corrupt practice” means any of the practices specified in the Rule 79 ;
(8) “District Co-operative Election Officer” means an officer or officers approved by the SCEA, not below the rank of the Deputy Registrar, Co-operative Societies of the district to assist the SCEA in performance of its functions for the conduct of elections of societies in the District under the supervision and control of the SCEA ;
(9) “election” means an election to elect a committee or committee member and office bearer of a Co-operative Society ;
(10) “list of voters” means the list of voters as finalized in accordance with Rules 8 and 11 ;
(11) “observer” means a Government officer nominated to watch the conduct of election or elections and perform any such other functions as may be entrusted to him by the SCEA ;
(12) “Polling Officer” means any person appointed by the Returning Officer to assist the Presiding Officer ;
(13) ”Presiding Officer” means any person appointed by the Returning Officer for the conduct of the election ;
(14) “public holiday” means any day which is a public holiday for the purposes of section 25 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881), and includes any other day which is notified by the State Government to be a holiday for Government offices in the State or by the Collector to be a local holiday for the District ;
(15) “Reserved seat” means a seat reserved for the members belonging to the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes, Women, De-notified Tribes (Vimukta Jatis) or Nomadic Tribes or Special Backward Classes, Other Backward Classes ;
(16) “Returning Officer” means any person appointed by the SCEA or by an officer authorized by SCEA in this behalf for the conduct of the election of Societies ;
(17) “SCEA” means the State Cooperative Election Authority constituted by the State Government under section 73 CB ;
(18) “Section” means a section of the Act ;
(19) “Society” means a society as specified in the Act ;
(20) “Taluka or Ward Co-operative Election Officer” means officer approved by the SCEA who shall perform all the functions for the conduct of elections of societies in the Taluka under the supervision and control of the SCEA and District Co-operative Election Officer.