for the purposes of Chapter 9, means—
| (a) | any registered party defined in section 1 of the Electoral Act, 1998 (Act No. 73 of 1998); or |
| (b) | any alliance of such registered parties, as the case may be, which, for the purpose of any particular election, has, before the commencement of the relevant election period, submitted its list of candidates for the National assembly or any other legislature, contemplated in the Constitution; |
[Definition inserted by section (1)(m) of Electronic Communications Amendment Act, 2014 (Act No. 1 of 2014)]