Section 2Definitions

"appointed day" means the day which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint;

"article" means an article of the Constitution;

"assembly constituency", "council constituency" and "parliamentary constituency" have the same meanings as in the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950);

"Election Commission" means the Election Commission appointed by the President under article 324;

"existing State of Bihar" means the State of Bihar as existing immediately before the appointed day;

"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;

"notified order" means an order published in the Official Gazette;

"population ratio", in relation to the States of Bihar and Jharkhand, means the ratio of 645.30:218.44;

"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;

"successor State", in relation to the existing State of Bihar, means the State of Bihar or Jharkhand;

"transferred territory" means the territory which on the appointed day is transferred from the existing State of Bihar to the State of Jharkhand;

"treasury" includes a sub-treasury; and

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.