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THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

 

Part XIX.—Miscellaneous.—Arts. 366.

(8) "debt" includes any liability in respect of any obligation to repay capital sums by way of annuitics and any liability under any guarantee, and "debt charges" shall be construed accordingly;

(9) "estate duty" means a duty to be assessed on or by reference to the principal value, ascertained in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed by or under laws made by Parliament or the Legislature of a State relating to the duty, of all property passing upon death or deemed, under the provisions of the said laws, so to pass;

(I0) "existing law" means any law, Ordinance, order, byelan, rule or regulation passed or made before the commencement of this Constitution by any Legislature, authority or person having power to make such a lan', Ordinance, ordler, bye-law', rule or regulation;

(II) "Federal Court" means the Federal Court constituted under the Government of India Act, 1935;

(I2) "goods" includes all materials, commoditics, and articles;

(I3) "guarantee" includes any obligation undertaken before the commencement of this Constitution to make payments in the event of the profits of an undertaking failing short of a specified amount;

(I4) "High Court" means any court which is deemed in the purposes of this Constitution to be a High Court for any State and includes—

(a) any Court in the territory of India constituted or reconstituted under this Constitution as a High Court, and

(b) any other Court in the territory of India which may be declared by Parliament by law to be a High Court for all or any of the purposes of this Constitution;

(I5) "Indian State" means any territory which the Government of the Dominion of India recognised as such a State;

(I6) "Part" means a Part of this Constitution;

(I7) "pension" means a pension, whether contributory or not, of any kind whatsoever payable to or in respect of any person, and includes retired pay so payable, a gratuity so payable and any sum or sums so payable by way of the return, with or without interest thereon or any other addition thereto, of subscriptions to a provident fund;

(I8) "Proclamation of Emergency" means a Proclamation issued under clause (I) of article 352;

(I9) "public notification" means a notification in the Gazette of India, or, as the case may be, the Olicial Gazette ol a State;