(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,
(a) "Act" means the Payment of Salaries and Allowances Act, 1951(XIV of 1951);
(b) "advance" means an advance sanctioned to a member for the purchase of vehicle under section 8B of the Act;
(c) "Assembly" means the Kerala Legislative Assembly;
(d) "borrower" means a member to whom the advance is disbursed under these rules;
(e) "Form" means form appended to these rules;
(f) "Member" means a member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly including the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker, the Leader of Opposition, the Chief Whip and the Ministers;
(g) "sanctioning authority" means the “Government” in the case of Ministers, Chief Whip and the Leader of Opposition and “the Secretary of the Kerala Legislative Assembly” in the case of all other Members of Legislative Assembly including Speaker and Deputy Speaker.”
(h) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Kerala Legislative Assembly;
(i) "vehicle" means a motor vehicle which a member may ordinarily uses for his conveyance and includes a car, jeep, van, thri-wheeler, motor cycle, scooter or an alike vehicle/such vehicles.
(2) words and expressions used but not defined in these rules shall have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in the Act.