2. Definitions.

(i) "Act" means the Goa Housing Board Act, 1968 (Act 12 of 1968);
(ii) "Allotment Committee" means a Committee constituted under regulation 7 for the purpose of allotment of a tenement under sub-section (i) of Section 19 of the Act;
(iii) "Allottee" means a person to whom allotment of a tenement is made;
(iv) "Applicant" means a person who has applied to the Board for allotment of a tenement under any of the Scheme specified in these regulations;
(v) "Blind and Physically Handicapped" means those who are blind or those whose permanent physical disability/impairment of either upper or lower limbs is 50 % and above as certified by the competent authority of Goa Medical College;
(vi) "Board" means the Goa Housing Board;
(vii) "Economically Weaker Section of the Society" means such class of people whose monthly income does not exceed the limit fixed by the Board for each scheme or such norms as may be followed by HUDCO, from time to time;
(viii) "Ex-servicemen" means the former members of the armed forces of the Union not being persons who have ceased to be members of the armed forces as a result of their being duly dismissed or discharged after a Court Martial or as a result of desertion or who have been arrested;
(ix) "Family" in relation of applicant means the applicant and if married, wife or husband as the case may be dependent brothers, unmarried sisters actually dependent upon the applicant and widowed sister if dependent on applicant;
(x) "Form" means a form appended to the regulations;
(xi) "Freedom Fighter" means a person who has been recognised as such by the Government;
(xii) "Government" means the Government of Goa;
(xiii) "Higher Income Group" means such class of person whose monthly income exceeds Rs. 5,000/- and above or such amount or such norms as may be followed by HUDCO from time to time.
(xiv) "Income" in relation to allottee or applicant means the total annual income regularly derived by him/her from occupation, trade, business, employment or any calling or source constituting normal means of livelihood during the preceding financial/calendar year.
(xv) "Low Income Group" means such class of people whose monthly income does not exceed the limit fixed by the Board for the respective scheme or such norms as may be followed by HUDCO from time to time;
(xvi) "Middle Income Group" means such class of people whose monthly income does not exceed the limit fixed by the Board for the respective scheme or such norms as may be followed by HUDCO from time to time;
(xvii) "Other Backward Classes" are those communities which have been notified as such by the Government from time to time;
(xviii) "Para-Military Forces" includes personnel of Border Security Forces, Indo- Tibetan Police Force, Assam Rifles, etc. who have been killed or disabled or declared missing in 1962, Sino-Indian Conflict and 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pak Conflict or any other combat thereafter and their families on production of a certificate from Defence or similar Authorities, as the case may be;
(xix) "Scheduled Castes" are those classes which have been notified as such under the Constitution (Goa, Daman and Diu) Scheduled Castes Order, 1968.
(xx) "Scheduled Tribes" are those classes which have been notified as such under the Constitution (Goa, Daman and Diu) Scheduled Tribes Order, 1968;
(xxi) "Tenement" means a house, flat or bungalow built by the Board or by Agencies entrusted by the Board.