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(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) “candidate” means a person who has been granted permission by the competitive examination authority to appear in competitive examination and includes a person authorized to act as a scribe on his behalf in the competitive examination; (b) “communication device” shall have the same meaning assigned to it in clause (ha) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000; (c) “competitive examination” means any examination conducted by the competitive examination authority, as specified in the Schedule, or conducted by such other authority as may be notified by the State Government; (d) “competitive examination authority” means the Maharashtra Public Service Commission, Selection Committee engaged or constituted by the State Government, from time to time, for conducting competitive examination or any Examination Authority as specified in Schedule; (e) “competitive examination centre” means such premises, which is selected by the service provider or otherwise selected by the competitive examination authority, to be used for conduct of competitive examination and which, amongst others, may include any school, computer center, institution, any building or part thereof and the same shall include the entire periphery and land appurtenant thereto which may be used for security and other related reasons for conduct of the competitive examinations; (f) “computer network”, “computer resource” and “computer system” shall have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in clauses (j), (k) and (l) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000 ; (g) “conduct of competitive examination” shall include all the procedures, processes and activities, as may be prescribed, for being adopted for the conduct of competitive examination; (h) “Government” means the Government of Maharashtra; (i) “institution” means any agency, organization, body, association of persons, business entity, company, partnership or single proprietorship firm, by whatever name it may be called, which is other than the competitive examination authority and the service provider engaged by such authority: Explanation.—For the purposes of this clause, it is clarified that “company” includes a company as defined in clause (20) of section 2 of Short title and commencement. Definitions. 21 of