The Bill is therefore, designed to incorporate provisions for the grant of rehabilitation loans, and for the recovery

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context- (a) "Border slip" means, slip issued between the 1st day of March, 1950 and the 15th day of October, 1952 inclusive at the interception points on the border of India and Pakistan at Bongaon and Banpur in the State of West-Bengal under the orders of the Refugee Rehabilitation Commissioner, West-Bengal; (b) "Borrower" means a displaced person or a company, association or body of displaced persons whether incorporated or not to whom a loan has been granted under this Act and includes the heirs, successors and assigns of a borrower; (c) "Collector" means the Collector of the district and includes the Additional District Magistrate of the district and any other officer specially appointed by the State Government to perform the functions of a Collector under this Act; (d) "Company" means a company as defined in the Indian Companies Act, 1913 (Act VII of 1913); (e) "Director of Relief and Rehabilitation" means an officer appointed as such by the State Government; (f) "Displaced person" means a person who was ordinarily resident in the territories now comprised in East Pakistan but who on account of civil disturbances or the fear of civil disturbances or on account of the partition of India, has migrated- (i) from the district of Noakhali or the district of Comilla now forming part of East Pakistan on or after the 1st day of October, 1946; or (ii) from any other place in East Pakistan on or after the 1st day of June, 1947; to the territories now included in the Union of India, with the intention of taking up permanent residence within such territories : Provided that where, even though the head of the family of a person is not a displaced person but the individual status as displaced persons of other member of the family justify in the opinion of the State Government that the provisions of this Act shall apply to such person, then such person may be declared to be a displaced person. (g) "Loan" means a loan granted under the provisions of this Act in cash or in kind, and shall include any sum referred to in Subsection (4) of Section 4; (h) "Migration Certificate" or "Emergency Certificate" means certificate issued by the Deputy High Commissioner for India at Decca in East Pakistan under Scheme No. 7 of the Government of India's Scheme of Passport system to regulate the Entry of Pakistan Nationals into India and Facilities for Indian Nationals to visit Pakistan to person who being domiciled in Pakistan at the date of issue of the certificate has declared his intention to leave Pakistan and settle in India; (i) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; and (j) "sanctioning authority" means the authority who sanctions a loan.