Definitions

In this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,—

1. (a) "agent" means any person appointed in writing by a candidate at an election to be his agent for the purposes of his election, with the written consent of such person;
2. (b) "candidate" means a person who has been or claims to have been duly nominated as a candidate at an election, and any such person shall be deemed to have been a candidate as from the time when, with the election in prospect, he began to hold himself out as a prospective candidate;
3. (c) "corrupt practice" means any of the practices specified in Schedule II;
4. (d) "costs" means all costs, charges and expenses of, or incidental to, a trial of an election petition;
5. (e) "election" means an election to fill the office of a member;
6. (f) "electoral right" means the right of a person to stand or not to stand as, or to withdraw from being, a candidate or to vote or refrain from voting at an election;
7. (g) "pleader" means any person entitled to appear and plead for another in a civil court, and includes an Advocate.