Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
¨É½þÉ®úɹ]Åõ ¶ÉɺÉxÉ ®úÉVÉ{ÉjÉ +ºÉÉvÉÉ®úhÉ ¦ÉÉMÉ +É`ö, VÉÖ±Éè 31, 2024/ ¸ÉÉ´ÉhÉø 9, ¶ÉEäò 1946 3 the Companies Act, 2013; or a limited liability partnership firm as defined in clause (n) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008; (j) “notification” means a notification published in the Official Gazette and the expression “notify” shall be construed accordingly; (k) “organized crime” means an unlawful activity committed by a person or a group of persons indulging in unfair means in collusion and conspiracy to pursue or promote a shared interest for wrongful gain in respect of a competitive examination; (l) “person associated with a service provider” means a person who performs services for or on behalf of such service provider irrespective of whether such person is an employee or an agent or a subsidiary of such service provider, as the case may be; (m) “paper setter” means any person or entity appointed by the competitive examination authority for preparation of questions or question bank or question paper; (n) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; and (o) “service provider” means any agency, organization, body, association of persons, business entity, company, partnership or single proprietorship firm, including its associates, sub-contractors and provider of support of any computer resource or any material, by whatever name it may be called, which is engaged by the competitive examination authority for conduct of competitive examination. (2) Words and expressions used herein but not defined and are defined under any other law for the time being in force, shall have the same meanings as assigned to them in those laws. CHAPTER III UNFAIR MEANS AND OFFENCES