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ACT II OF 1998 ACT II OF 1998 BALOCHISTAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH BOARD ACT, 1998 2. Definitions.‑‑(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say‑‑ (a) "Acts" means the Acts specified in section 18; (b) "Agriculture" means crops, livestock including fisheries, forestry, range management, soil science, socio‑economic institutional aspects connected therewith and such other activities and subject as the Provincial Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, declare to be agriculture within the meaning of this clause; (c) "Board" means the Balochistan Agricultural Research Board established under section 3; (d) "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Board; (e) "Government" means the Government of Balochistan; (f) "Management Support Unit" means the Executive Committee of the Board; (g) "Prescribed" means the prescribed rules or regulations; (h) "Research establishment" includes agricultural, livestock, forest and fisheries experiment stations, field stations, institutes, centres, sub‑centres, laboratories and other units of the Board howsoever, designated; (i) "Regulations" means regulations made under this Act.