The Presidential and Vice-Presidential Elections Act,1952
Section 13. Definitions
In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires-
(a) “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;
(b) “Costs” means all costs, charges and expenses of, or incidental to, a trial of an election petition;
(c) “Returned candidate” means a candidate whose name has been published under section 12 as duly elected.