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Short title and commencement.— (1) These regulations may be called the Goa Housing Board (Registration, Allotment and Sale of Plots) Regulations, 1982 as amended by Regulations, 1994, and as amended by Regulation, 2001. (2) They shall apply to the registration of intending purchasers of plots developed by the Goa Housing Board for construction of residential house/flat/bungalow. (3) They shall come into force at once. 2 Definitions.— In these regulations, until the context otherwise requires:- (i) “Act” means the Goa Housing Board Act, 1968 (12 of 1968); (ii) “Allotment Committee” means a committee constituted under regulation 7 for the purpose of allotment of a plot under sub-section (1) of Section 19 of the Act; (iii) “Allottee” means a person to whom allotment of a plot is made; (iv) “Applicant” means a parson who has applied to the Board for a plot for the construction of a residential house/flat/bungalow under the Scheme specified in these regulations; (v) “Blind and Physically Handicapped” means those who are blind or where permanent physical disability impairment of either upper or lower limb is 50% and above as certified by the competent authority of Goa Medical College; (vi) “Board” means the Goa Housing Board; (vii) “Ex-Servicemen and their dependents” 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; (viii) “Family” in relation to applicant means the applicant and if married, wife or husband as the case may be, dependent brothers, unmarried sisters actually dependent upon applicant and widowed sisters if dependent on applicant; (ix) “Form” means a form appended to these regulations; (x) “Freedom Fighter” means a person who has been recognised as such by the Government; Manual of Goa Laws (Vol. II) – 599 – Housing Board Act & Rules (xi) “Government” means the Government of Goa; (xii) “Income” in relation to an allottee or applicant means the total annual income regularly derived by him/her from occupation, trade, business, employment or calling source constituting normal means of livelihood during the preceding financial/calendar year. (xiii) “Other Backward Classes” are those communities which have been notified as such by the Government from time to time; (xiv) “Para-military Forces” include personnel of Border Security Force, Indo- -Tibetan Police, 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 on production of a certificate from the Defence or similar Authorities, as the case may be; (xv) “Plot” means a developed plot of land having specified dimension and boundaries allotted for the purpose of construction of residential house/flat/ /bungalow; (xvi) “Scheduled Castes” are those classes which have been notified as such under the Constitution (Goa, Daman and Diu) Scheduled Castes Order, 1968; (xvii) “Scheduled Tribes” are those classes which have been notified as such under the Constitution (Goa, Daman and Diu) Scheduled Tribes Order, 1968.