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In this Act- (a) [***]1 (b) “Appellate Authority” means the Transport Commissioner, Uttarakhand or any other officer appointed by the State Government as Appellate Authority. (c) “Certificate of registration” means the certificate issued by a competent authority to the effect that a motor vehicle has been duly registered in accordance with the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act. 1988 or any other law for the time being in force, relating to registration of motor vehicles; (d) “Goods carriage” means any motor vehicle constructed or adapted wholly or partly for use for the carriage of goods, or any motor vehicles not so constructed or adapted when used for the carriage of goods either solely or in addition to passengers, and includes a trailer but does not include a motor cab, or maxi cab or a contract carriage or stage carriage where such contract carriage or stage carriage in authorized to carry a limited quantity of load; (e) “Limited quantity of Load” means such quantity of load, not exceeding the limits determined by the Transport Commissioner, Uttarakhand, as the Registering Authority may specify in the registration certificate in respect of a vehicle. (f) “Old motor vehicle” means a motor vehicle other than a transport vehicle registered prior to February 5, 1988 under the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939; (g) “Operator” in respect of a transport vehicle means a person whose name is entered in the permit or in an authorization certificate issued under the Uttar Pradesh Motor Vehicles (special provisions) Act, 1976, (as applicable in Uttarakhand) and where there is no such permit or authorization certificate, the person whose name is entered in the certificate or registration in respect of such vehicle, and where the transport vehicle is the subject of a hire purchase agreement, the person in possession of the vehicle under that agreement and where any such person is a minor, the guardian of such minor;