2. Definitions:

(i) 'Act' means the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Central Act 59 of 1988) ;
(ii) 'Appeal' means the memorandum of appeal to the Appellate Tribunal filed under Section 89 of the Act ;
(iii) 'Court' means the place where the Tribunal holds its sitting;
(iv) 'Form' means form appended to these rules ;
(v) 'Party' means the appellant or the applicant and includes his pleader ;
(vi) 'Pleader' means pleader as defined in sub-section (1-5) of Section 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 ;
(vii) 'Presiding Officer' means the Presiding Officer of the State Transport Appellate Tribunal ;
(viii) 'Rules' means the Andhra Pradesh Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989.
(ix) 'Revision Application' means an application to the State Transport Appellate Tribunal filed under Section 90 of the Act ;
(x) 'Secretary' means the person who is, for the time being discharging the functions of the Secretary to the Tribunal;
(xi) 'State Representative' means an Officer appointed by the State Government to receive on behalf of the Regional Transport Authorities and State Transport Authority notices issued by the Tribunal and generally to appear, act and plead on their behalf in all proceedings before the Tribunal and includes an Officer appointed to act on his behalf in his absence ;
(xii) ' Tribunal' means the State Transport Appellate Tribunal, Andhra Pradesh ;
(xiii) Words and expressions used but not defined in these rules shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Andhra Pradesh Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989.
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