Section 2. Definitions

2. Definitions.— In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, — (a) "appointed day" means the 1st day of May, 1960; (b) "article" means an article of the Constitution; (c) "assembly constituency", "council constituency" and "parliamentary constituency" have the same meaning as in the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950); (d) "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 State of Bombay; (e) "notified order" means an order published in the Official Gazette; (f) "population ratio", in relation to the States of Maharashtra and Gujarat, means the ratio of 66.31 to 33.69; (g) "sitting member", in relation to either House of Parliament or of the Legislature of the State of Bombay, means a person who, immediately before the appointed day, is a member of that House; (h) "transferred territory" means the territories which, as from the appointed day, are the territories of the State of Gujarat; (i) "treasury" includes a sub-treasury; (j) any reference to a district, taluka, village or other territorial division of the State of Bombay shall be construed as a reference to the area comprised within that territorial division as recognised for land revenue purposes on the 1st day of December, 1959. 2. Stores relating to Sachivalaya and offices of Heads of Departments having, immediately before the appointed day, jurisdiction over the whole of the State of Bombay shall remain the property of the State of Maharashtra: Provided that typewriters, duplicators, clocks and vehicles shall be divided between the States of Maharashtra and Gujarat according to the population ratio. 2. Subject to the said adjustments, the liability in respect of pensions of officers serving in connection with the affairs of the State of Bombay who retire or proceed on leave preparatory to retirement before the appointed day, but whose claims for pensions are outstanding immediately before that day, shall be the liability of the State of Maharashtra.