Definitions

2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,

1. (a) "borrower" or "grantee" means an individual, company or group, co-operative society or other association or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not to whom or to which a loan or a grant, as the case may be, has been made under this Act;
2. (b) "Company" means a company as defined in the Indian Companies Act, 1913 (VII of 1913);
3. (c) "Controlling Authority" means the authority competent to sanction a loan or make a grant under the powers conferred by this Act;
4. (cc) "co-operative society" means a society registered under the Co-operative Societies Act, II of 1912, all the members of which are refugees;
5. (d) "Financial Commissioner" means the Financial Commissioner, Rehabilitation, appointed under this Act;
6. (e) "Deputy Commissioner" means the Deputy Commissioner of the District and includes an Additional Deputy Commissioner or any other officer authorised by the State Government to discharge the functions of the Deputy Commissioner under the Act;
7. (ec) "group" means a combination of not less than four refugees, no two of them belonging to the same family, who enter into a partnership for the purpose of engaging in a business, industry or profession;
8. (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
9. (g) "refugee" means a person ordinarily resident or owning property prior to 1st of March, 1947, in the territories now comprised in Western Pakistan and who has left the said territories on account of civil disturbances or the fear of civil disturbances and is for the time being resident in Haryana; and
10. (h) "Registrar" means the Registrar, Co-operative Societies, Rehabilitation, appointed under this Act.