In this Act,-
(a) Board means the Board of High School and Intermediate Education, Uttar Pradesh;
(b) course books means any book prescribed or recommended by or written according to the syllabi of the Department of Education, Uttar Pradesh, or the Board, or any University as defined in clause (20) of Section 2 of the Uttar Pradesh State Universities Act, 1973 and specified or referred to in the notification under Section 7;
(c) concessional rate paper means the paper made available by the Central Government at concessional rate, and allotted to publishers through the State Government;
(d) dealer means a person engaged in the business of purchase, sale or storage for sale, of any course books, whether by wholesale (whether as printer, publisher or distributor) or by retail, and includes his representative or agent;
(e) director means the Director of Education, Uttar Pradesh ;
(f) notified price in relation to a course books means the price indicated against it in a notification issued under Section 7, and until such notification is issued, the price indicated in the Uttar Pradesh Course Books Order, 1975 ;
(g) Prescribed Authority means the District Magistrate and includes any officer authorised by him in writing to perform any of his functions under this Act;
(h) prospectus means the Vivran Patrika issued from time to lime for the High School and Intermediate Examinations by the Board ;
(i) publisher means a person who publishes any book prepared according to the syllabus prescribed by the Board for use in the High School and Intermediate classes or according to syllabus prescribed by the Department of Education for classes I to VIII, and includes a person who publishes a course book.