In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "appointed day " means the day1 which the Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint;
(b) "article " means an article of the Constitution;
(c) "assembly constituency ", "council constituency " and "parliamentary constituency " have the
same meanings as in the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950);
(d) "Election Commission " means the Election Commission appointed by the President under
article 324;
(e) "existing State of Andhra Pradesh " means the State of Andhra Pradesh as existing
immediately before the appointed day;
(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 Andhra Pradesh;
(g) "notified order " means an order published in the Official Gazette;
(h) "population ratio ", in relation to the States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, means the ratio
of 58.32 : 41.68 as per 2011 Census;
(i) "sitting member ", in relation to either House of Parliament or of the Legislature of the existing
State of Andhra Pradesh, means a person who immediately before the appointed day, is a member of
that House;
(j) "successor State ", in relation to the existing State of Andhra Pradesh, means the State of
Andhra Pradesh or the State of Telangana, as the case may be;
(k) "transferred territory " means the territory which on the appointed day is transferred from the
existing State of Andhra Pradesh to the State of Telangana;
(l) "treasury " includes a sub-treasury; and
(m) any reference to a district, mandal, tehsil, taluk or other territorial division of the existing
State of Andhra Pradesh shall be construed as a reference to the area comprised within that territorial
division on the appointed day
1. 2nd June, 2014, vide notification No. S.O. 655(E), dated 4th March, 2014, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II,
sec. 3(ii).