(a) "Act" means the Goa Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (Act 14 of 1994);
(b) "Administrative Tribunal" means the Administrative Tribunal constituted under section 3 of the Goa Administrative Tribunal Act, 1965 (Act No.6 of 1965);
(c) "Candidate" means a person who has been or claims to have been duly nominated as a candidate at any Village Panchayat Election, and any such person shall be deemed to have been a candidate as from the time when, with the election is prospect, he began to hold himself out as a prospective candidate;
(d) "Costs" means all costs, charges and expenses of or incidental to a trial of an election petition;
(e) "Pleader" means any person entitled to appear and plead for another in a civil court within the State of Goa;
(f) "Words and expression" which are not defined under these Rules shall have the same meaning as assigned to them under the Act.
Section 2 • The Goa Panchayat Raj (Election Petition Authority) Rules, 1997
2. Definitions.
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