2. Ins., ibid.
5 Dominions of India and Pakistan (and before the establishment of those Dominions, British
India), any Dominions as defined in the Statute of Westmin ister, 1931, any Province or State
forming part of any of the said Dominions, and British Burma; and
(b)in any Central Act passed before the commencement of Part III of th e said Ac t, mean any
part of His Majesty’ s dominions exclusive of the British Islands and of British India;
and in either case where parts of those dominions are under both a Central and Local Legislature, all
parts under the Central Legislature shall, for the purposes of this definition, be deemed to be one
colony.
(13)“Commencement ” used with reference to an Act or Regulation, shall mean the day on which
the Act or Regulation comes into force;
(14)“Commissioner ” shall mean the chief officer -in-charge of the revenue administration of a
division;
(15)“Constitution ” shall mean the Constitution of India;
(16)“Consular officer ” shall include consul -general, consul, vice -consul, consular agent, pro -
consul and any per son for the time being authorised to perform the duties of consul -general, consul,
vice-consul or consular agent;
(17)“District Judge ” shall mean the Judge of a principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction, but
shall not include a High Court in the exer cise of its ordinary or extraordinary original civil
jurisdiction;
(18)“document ” shall include any matter written, expressed or described upon any substance by
means of letters, figures or marks, or by more than one of those means which is intended to be used,
or which may be used, for the purpose of recording that matter;
(19)“enactment ” shall include a Regulation (as hereinafter defined) and any Regulation of the
Bengal, Madras or Bombay Code, and shall also include any provision contained in any Act o r in any
such Regulation as aforesaid;
(20)“father ”, in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, shall include an
adoptive father;
(21)“financial year ” shall mean the year commencing on the first day of April;
(22)a thing shall be deemed to be done in “good faith ” where it is in fact done honestly, whether
it is done negligently or not;
(23)“Government ” or “the Government ” shall include both the Central Government and any
State Government;
(24)“Government securities ” shall mean securities of the Central Government or of any State
Government, but in any Act or Regulation made before the commencement of the Constitution shall
not include securities of the Government of any Part B State;
(25)“High Court ”, used with refe rence to civil proceedings, shall mean the highest Civil Court of
appeal (not including the Supreme Court) in the part of India in which the Act or Regulation
containing the expression operates;
(26)“immovable property ” shall include land, benefits to arise out of land, and things attached to
the earth, or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth;
(27)“imprisonment ” shall mean imprisonment of either description as defined in the Indian Penal
Code (45 of 18 60);
(a)as respects any period before the establishment of the Dominion of India, British India
together with all territories of Indian Rulers then under the suzerainty of His Majesty, all
territories under the suzerainty of such an Indian Ruler, and the tribal areas;
6 (b) as respects any period after the establishment of the Dominion of India and before the
commencement of the Constitution, all territories for the time being included in that Dominion;
and
(c)as respects any perio d after the commencement of the Constitution , all territories for the
time being comprised in the territory of India;
(29)“Indian law ” shall mean any Act , Ordinance, Regulation, rule, order, bye -law or other
instrument which before the commencement of th e Constitution, had the force of law in any Province
of India or part thereof, or thereafter has the force of law in any Part A State or Part C State or Part
thereof, but does not include any Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom or any Order in Council,
rule or other instrument made under such Act;
(30)“Indian State ” shall mean any territory which the Central Government recognised as such a
State before the commencement of the Constitution, whether described as a State, an Estate, a Jagir
or otherwise;
(31)“local authority ” shall mean a municipal committee, district board, body of port
Commissioners or other authority legally entitled to, or entrusted by the Government with, the control
or management of a municipal or local fund;
(32)“Magistrate ” shall include every person exercising all or any of the powers of a Magistrate
under the Code of Criminal Procedure for the time being in force;
(33)“master ”, used with reference to a ship, shall mean, any person (except a pilot or harbour -
master) having for t he time being control or charge of the ship;
(34)“merged territories" shall mean the territories which by virtue of an order made under section
290A of the Government of India Act, 1935, were immediately before the commencement of the
Constitution being a dministered as if they formed part of a Governor's Province or as if they were a
Chief Commissioner's Province;
(35)“month ” shall mean a month reckoned according to the British calendar;
(36)“movable property ” shall mean property of every description, except immovable property;
(37)“oath” shall include affirmation and declaration in the case of persons by law allowed to
affirm or declare instead of swearing;
(38)“offence ” shall mean any act or omission made p unishable by any law for the time being in
force;
(39)“official Gazette ” or “Gazette ” shall mean the Gazette of India or the Official Gazette of a
State;
(40)“Part” shall mean a part of the Act or Regulation in which the word occurs;
(41)“Part A State ” shall mean a State for the time being specified in Part A of the First Schedule
to the Constitution, 1[as in force before the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956,] “Part B
State ” shall mean a State for the time being specified in Part B of that Sch edule and “Part C State ”
shall mean a State for the time being specified in Part C of that Schedule or a territory for the time
being administered by the President under the provisions of article 243 of the Constitution;
(42)“person ” shall include any com pany or association or body of individuals, whether
incorporated or not;
(a)in relation to any territory outside India, the Principal Officer, by whatever name called,
representing the Central Government in such territo ry; and
(b)in relation to any territory within India to which the Act or Regulation containing the
expression does not extend, any officer appointed by the Central Government to exercise all or
any of the powers of a Political Agent under that Act or Regu lation;