Question

convert the following sentences in direct speech to indirect speech
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*THE CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS RULES, 19611

PART I

Preliminary

1. Short title and commencement.—(1) These rules may be called the Conduct of Elections Rules,

1961.

(2) They shall come into force on the 25th day of April, 1961:

Provided that these rules shall not apply to or in relation to any election called but not completed

before that date and the Representation of the People (Conduct of Elections and Election Petitions)

Rules, 1956, shall continue to apply to or in relation to any such election as if these rules had not been

made.

2. Interpretation.—(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) "Act" means the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (43 of 1951);

(b) "ballot box" includes any box, bag or other receptacle used for the insertion of ballot paper by

voters;

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[(ba) "counterfoil" means the counterfoil attached to a ballot paper printed under the

provisions of these rules;]

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(c) "election by assembly members" means an election to the Council of States by the elected members of

the Legislative Assembly of a State by the members of the electoral college of a Union territory, or an election

to the Legislative Council of a State by the members of the Legislative Assembly of that State;

(d) "elector", in relation to an election by assembly members, means any person entitled to vote at that

election;

(e) "electoral roll", in relation to an election by assembly members, means the list

maintained under section 152 by the returning officer for that election;

(f) "electoral roll number" of a person means--

(i) the serial number of the entry in the electoral roll in respect of that person;

(ii) the serial number of the part of the electoral roll in which such entry occurs; and

(iii) the name of the constituency to which the electoral roll relates;

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[(g) "Form" means a Form appended to these rules and in respect of any election in a State,

includes a translation thereof in any of the languages used for official purposes of the State;

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* Rules recently amended vide Notifn. No. S.O. 272(E), dated the 27th February, 2004.

1. Published with the Ministry of Law Notifn. No. S.O. 859, dated the 15th April, 1961, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II,

Section 3(ii), Page 419.

2. Ins. by Notifn. No. S.O. 5573, dated the 23rd December, 1971.

3. Ins. by Notifn. No. S.O. 3875, dated the 15th December, 1966 and omitted by Notifn. No. S.O. 1294(E), dated the 11th November, 2003.

4. Subs. by Notifn. No. S.O. 3450, dated the 9th November, 1966, for cl. (g).