(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, -
(a) 'Act" means the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 (39 of 1987);
(b) "form" means a Form annexed to these regulations;
(c) "front office" means a room in the Legal Services Institution where legal services are made available;
(d) "Legal Practitioner" shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause
(7) of section 2 of the Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961);
(e) "Legal Services Institution" means the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee, a State Legal Services Authority the High Court Legal Services Committee, District Legal Services Authority or the Taluk Legal Services Committee, as the case may be;
\{ea) "Panel Lawyer" means a legal practitioner empanelled as a Panel Lawyer under regulation 8;]
(f) "Para-Legal Volunteer" means a para-legal volunteer trained as such by a Legal Services Institution;
l[(fa) "Retainer Lawyer" means a Panel Lawyer designated as the Retainer Lawyer under sub-regulation (6) of regulation 8;]
(g) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Legal Services Institution;
(h) "section" means the section of the Act;
(7) "State regulation" means regulation made by the State Authorities under the Act.
(2) All other words and expressions used but not defined in these regulations shall have the same meanings assigned to them in the Act.