1. In this act, unless otherwise required by the context,(a) “Conseil du référendum” means the Conseil established by section 2;
(b) “referendum” means a referendum ordered and held under this act;
(c) “writ” means a writ of referendum issued in accordance with section 13;
(d) “national committee” means a committee established in accordance with Division I of Chapter VIII;
(e) “official agent” means a person appointed in accordance with section 30;
(f) “local agent” means a person appointed by the official agent in accordance with section 31;
(g) “referendum period” means the period beginning on the day fixed for issuing a writ and ending on the day for its return;
(h) “ballot-paper” means the ballot-paper described in section 20;
(i) “elector”, “polling-subdivision”, “urban polling-subdivision”, “rural polling-subdivision”, “list”, “annual electoral list”, “second revision”, “revisors”, “period of the annual enumeration”, “official delegate”, “electoral district”, “election”, “general elections”, “domicile”, “to be domiciled”, “polling”, “director general of elections”, “returning-officer”, “election-clerk”, “assistant election clerk” and “election officer” have the same meaning as in the Election Act (chapter E-3) as it applies to a referendum;
(j) “director general of the financing of political parties”, “authorized party” and “official representative of a political party” have the same meaning as in the Act to govern the financing of political parties (chapter F-2) as it applies to a referendum.