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In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in Definitions. the subject or context,— (a) "Board" means an Evacuee Property Management Board constituted under section 3; (b) "evacuee" means a person ordinarily resident and owning property or carrying on business in West Bengal, who, on account of communal dis- turbances or for fear of such disturbances,— (i) leaves or has on or after the 1st day of June, 1947, left West Bengal to a place outside the Province; and (ii) makes a declaration that he intends to return to West Bengal within six months from the date on which a proclamation in the -Official Gazette is made by the Provincial Government that normal conditions have been restored in the Province; (c) "evacuee property" includes all property lying in West Bengal in which an evacuee has any right or interest but does not include any moveable property in his immediate physical possession; "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made by the Provincial Government under this Act ; and "property" includes any right or interest in move- able or immoveable property or in any shop or business establishment or any factory or work- shop or undertaking or in any debt or actionable claim other than a mere right to sue but does not include money in a Bank whether held in current account or otherwise. Short title, extent and commence, meat. (d) (e) 2 The West Bengal Evacuees (Administration of Property) Act, 1949. [West Ben. Act XVIII (Sections 3, 4.) Constitu-