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Definition:-In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:- (i) “Additional Director” means an officer appointed by the Government to perform the functions of an Additional Director under this Act. (ii) “Audit means a person, male or female, who has attained the age of eighteen years; (iii) “Assembly” means the Haryana Legislative Assembly. (iv) “Backward Classes´ means such classes of citizens as may be specified by the Government from time to time. (v) “block” means such local area in a district as may be declared by the Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, to be a block at intermediate level; (vi) “Block Development and Panchayat Officer” means an officer appointed as such by the Government. (vii) x x x x x x (vii) x x x x x x (ix) x x x x x x (x) “casual vacancy” means a vacancy occurring otherwise than by efflux of time; (xi) x x x x x x (xii) “Chairman” means a Chairman of Panchayat Samiti elected under this Act (xiii) “Chief Executive Officer “ means the Chief Executive Officer of a Zila Parishad; (xiv) “Collector” means the Collector of a district in which the village is situated and includes any officer appointed by the Government to perform the functions of a Collector under this Act; (xv) x x x x x x (xvi) x x x x x x (xvii) “competent Authority” means such Government officer or authority as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint to perform the functions of a competent authority under this Act; (xviii) “Deputy Commissioner” means the Deputy Commissioner of a district and includes any officer not below the rank of an Assistant Commissioner appointed by the Government to perform the functions of a Deputy Commissioner under this Act; (xix) “Director” means the Director of Panchayats appointed under this Act. (xx) “District” means a revenue district in the State of Haryana; (xxi) “District Development and Panchayat Officer” means an officer appointed by the Government to perform the functions of a District Development and Panchayat Officer under this Act; (xxii) x x x x x (xxiii) “Executive Officer” means an Executive Officer of a Panchayat Samiti; (xxiv) x x x x x (xxv) Finance Commission” means the Finance Commission constituted under clause (I) of article 243-I of the Constitution of India; (xxvi) “general election” means the election held under this Act for the constitution or reconstitution of a Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti or Zila Parishad, as the case may be, after the expiry of its term or otherwise; (xxvii) “Government” means the Government of the State of Haryana; (xxix) “Gram Panchayat” means the Panchayat constituted at village level under this Act; (xxx) “Gram Sabha” means a body consisting of persons registered as voters in the electoral rolls of a village comprised within the area of the Panchayat at the village level; (xxxi) x x x x x (xxxii) x x x x x (xxxiii) “Local Authority” means a Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council, Municipal Committee, Cooperative Society, Market Society Improvement Trust, Cantonment Board, Urban Development Authority, Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti, Zila Parishad, a Board or Companyor Corporation financed or aided by Central or State Government; (xxxiv) x x x x x (xxxv) “ member” means a member of Panchayat Samiti or Zila Parishad, as the case may be; (xxxvi) “municipality” means municipality as defined in the Haryana Municipal Act, 1973; (xxvii) x x x x x (xxxviii) x x x x x (xxxix) x x x x x (xl) x x x x x (xli) “Panch” means a member of a Gram Panchayat elected under this Act ; Ommitted by Haryana Act No. 10 of 1994 (xlii) “Panchayat area” means the territorial area of a Gram Panchayat; (xliii) “ “Panchayat Samiti” means a Panchayat Samiti constituted for a block under this Act and having jurisdiction over the block area as notified in the Official Gazette; (xliv) “population” means the population as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published; (xlv) “prescribed “ means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (xlvi) “prescribed authority” means such authority as may be prescribed by rules made under this Act; (xlvii) “President” means a President of a Zila Parishad elected under this Act; (xlviii) x x x x x (xlix) x x x x x (l) x x x x x (li) “public servant” means a public servant as defined in section 21 of the Indian Panel Code, 1860 (Central Act 45 of 1860) and shall include a Panch {ommitted by Haryana Act No. 10 of 1999 } Sarpanch, member of Panchayat Samiti or zila Parishad, Chairman or Vice Chairman and President or Vice President. (lii) x x x x x (liii) “qualifying date” means the Ist day of January the year in which the list of voters for the purposes of the general election of members for constituting or reconstituting a Gram panchayat , Panchayat Samiti or Zila Parishad as the case may be is prepared or revised under the provisions of this Act; (liv) “Sabha area” means an area declared to be Sabha area under this Act; (lv) x x x x x (lvi) “Sarpanch” means a Sarpanch of Gram Panchayat elected under this Act; (lvii) “Schedule” means the Schedule appended to this Act; (lviii) “Schedule Caste” means such castes, races or tribes or part of or groups within, such castes, races or tribes as are deemed to be Scheduled Castes in relation to the State of Haryana under artilce 341 of the Constitution of India; (lix) x x x x x (lx) x x x x x (lxi) “State Election Commission” means the State Election Commission constituted under article 243K of the Constitution of India; (lxii) x x x x x (lxiii) “Sub Divisional Officer” means an officer-in-charge of a Sub Division of a district constituted for revenue and general purposes; (lxiv) x x x x x (lxv) “territorial constituency” means a ward in which a village or group of villages or a Block or a District is divided for the purposes of election of Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad; (lxvi) x x x x x (lxvii) “Vice-Chairman” means a Vice Chairman of a Panchayat Samiti elected under this Act; (lxiii) “Vice President” means a Vice President of a Zila Parishad elected under this Act; (lxix) “Village” means a revenue estate in the revenue records of a district in which it is situated or a village as may be specified, by notification in the Official Gazette, by the Government; (lxxii)”Zila Parishad” means a Zila Parishad constituted at district level under this Act. (lxxiii)” Zila Parishad Fund” means the Zila Parishad Fund under this Act. General provisions applicable to Gram Panchayats, Panchayat Samitis and Zila Parishad