Definitions

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--(a) 'election' means and includes entire election process commencing from the preparation of list of voters and all stages culminating into election of a councillor or, as the case may be a member of the local authority and it is always deemed to have meant and included entire election process; (b) 'local authority' means a panchayat, a municipality and a Municipal Corporation constituted under the relevant Act; (c) 'relevant Act', in relation to,-- (i) a panchayat, means the Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993; (ii) a municipality, means the Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963; (iii) a corporation, means the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949;