Definitions.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

1. (a) "appointed day1" means the day which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint;
2. (b) "article" means an article of the Constitution;
3. (c) "assembly constituency", "council constituency" and "parliamentary constituency" have the same meanings as in the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950);
4. (d) "Election Commission" means the Election Commission appointed by the President under article 324;
5. (e) "existing State of Bihar" means the State of Bihar as existing immediately before the appointed day;
6. (f) "law" includes any enactment, ordinance, regulation, order, bye-law, rule, scheme, notification or other instrument having, immediately before the appointed day, the force of law in the whole or in any part of the existing State of Bihar;
7. (g) "notified order" means an order published in the Official Gazette;
8. (h) "population ratio", in relation to the States of Bihar and Jharkhand, means the ratio of 645.30:218.44;
   • (i) "sitting member", in relation to either House of Parliament or of the Legislature of the existing State of Bihar, means a person who immediately before the appointed day, is a member of that House;
9. (j) "successor State", in relation to the existing State of Bihar, means the State of Bihar or Jharkhand;
10. (k) "transferred territory" means the territory which on the appointed day is transferred from the existing State of Bihar to the State of Jharkhand;
11. (l) "treasury" includes a sub-treasury; and
12. (m) any reference to a district, tahsil or other territorial division of the existing State of Bihar shall be construed as a reference to the area comprised within that territorial division on the appointed day.