2. Definitions.- (1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "Act" means the Companies Act, 1956; (b) "Annexure" means an Annexure to these Regulations; (c) "Application" means an application by which an interlocutory proceeding is commenced before a Bench; (d) "Authorised representative" means a person authorised in writing by a party under sub-regulation (2) of regulation 19 to function before a Bench as the representative of such party; (e) "Bench" means a bench of the Board and includes the Principal Bench Additional Principal Bench and a member sitting singly; (f) "Bench Officer" means an officer notified by the Board for the purpose of- (i) receiving, examining and processing of applications; and (ii) performing such other functions as may be entrusted to him by or under these Regulations; (g) "Board" means the Board of Company Law Administration, constituted under section 10E of the Act; (h) "Certified" means, in relation to a copy, certified as provided in section 76 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872; (i) "Chairman" means Chairman of the Board; (j) "company" includes a non-banking financial company as defined in clause (f) of section 45-I of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 and a foreign company; (k) "Filed" means filed in the office of the Bench; (l) "Form" means a form specified in Annexure II; (m) "Member" means a Member (whether judicial or technical,) of the Board and includes the Chairman and Vice Chairman; (n) "The Monopolies Act" means the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969; (o) "Office of the Bench" means the office of the Bench Officer:, (p) "Party" means a person who files an application or petition before a Bench, the respondent, the Registrar of Companies or the Regional Director and includes any person who has a right under the Act or the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 to make suggestions or objections; (q) "Petition" means an application, appeal or complaint in pursuance of which any proceeding, not being an interlocutory proceeding, is commenced by the Bench; (r) "Reference" means a reference within the meaning of regulations 35, 40 and 42 of these Regulations; (s) "Regional Director" means a person appointed by the Central Government as a Regional Director for the purposes of the Act; (t) "Registrar" means Registrar of Companies appointed under the Act; (u) "Sealed" means sealed with the seal of the ‘Board’ or ‘Bench’; (v) "Secretary" means Secretary to the Board and includes "Under- Secretary" to the Board and any other officer, by whatever name called, to whom powers and duties of Secretary may be entrusted under regulation 31; (w) "Section" means a section of the Act; (y) "Vice Chairman" means Vice Chairman of the Board. (2) Words or expressions occurring in these Regulations and not defined in sub-regulation (1) shall bear the same meaning as in the Act. | 