Section 2. Definitions

(h) “sitting member”, in relation to either House of Parliament or the Legislative Assembly of the existing State of Assam, means a person who, immediately before the appointed day, is a member of that House or that Assembly; (g) “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 any part of the existing State of Assam or the autonomous State of Meghalaya or the Union territory of Manipur or the Union territory of Tripura, as the case may be; (i) “successor State”, in relation to the existing State of Assam, means the State of Assam or Meghalaya, and includes also the Union in relation to the Union territory of Mizoram; (a) “Administrator” means the administrator of a Union territory appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution; (e) “Election Commission” means the Election Commission appointed by the President under article 324; (j) “treasury” includes a sub-treasury. [Footnotes] 1. 21st January, 1972, vide notification No. G.S.R. 18(E), dated 6th January, 1972, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, s. 3(i). 2. The proviso ins. by Act 26 of 2012, s. 2 (w.e.f. 23-3-2013). (b) “appointed day” means the day[1] which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint; (c) “article” means an article of the Constitution; (f) “existing State of Assam” means the State of Assam as existing immediately before the appointed day; (d) “common High Court” means the Gauhati High Court (the High Court of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura) referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 28: [2] [Provided that on and from the commencement of the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2012, the provisions of this clause shall have effect as if for the brackets and words “(Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura)”, the brackets and words “(Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland)” had been substituted;] 2. Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—