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Official sourceby the Constitution (Forty-third Amendment) Act, 1977, s.11 (w.e.f.13.4.1978).
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(5) “clause” means a clause of the article in which the expression occurs;
(6) “corporation tax” means any tax on income, so far as that tax is payable by
companies and is a tax in the case of which the following conditions are fulfilled:—
(a) that it is not chargeable in respect of agricultural income;
(b) that no deduction in respect of the tax paid by companies is, by any
enactments which may apply to the tax, authorised to be made from dividends payable
by the companies to individuals;
(c) that no provision exists for taking the tax so paid into account in computing
for the purposes of Indian income-tax the total income of individuals receiving such
dividends, or in computing the Indian income-tax payable by, or refundable to, such
individuals;
(7) “corresponding province”, “corresponding Indian State” or “corresponding State”
means in cases of doubt such Province, Indian State or State as may be determined by the
President to be the corresponding Province, the corresponding Indian State or the
corresponding State, as the case may be, for the particular purpose in question;
(8) “debt” includes any liability in respect of any obligation to repay capital sums by
way of annuities 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;
(10) “existing law” means any law, Ordinance, order, bye-law, rule or regulation
passed or made before the commencement of this Constitution by any Legislature, authority
or person having power to make such a law, Ordinance, order, bye-law, rule or regulation;
(11) “Federal Court” means the Federal Court constituted under the Government of
India Act, 1935;
(12) “goods” includes all materials, commodities, and articles;
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[(12A) “goods and services tax” means any tax on supply of goods, or services or both
except taxes on the supply of the alcoholic liquor for human consumption;]
(13) “guarantee” includes any obligation undertaken before the commencement of this
Constitution to make payments in the event of the profits of an undertaking falling short of a
specified amount;
(14) “High Court” means any Court which is deemed for 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;
(15) “Indian State” means any territory which the Government of the Dominion of
India recognised as such a State;
(16) “Part” means a Part of this Constitution;
(17) “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;
(18) “Proclamation of Emergency” means a Proclamation issued under clause (1) of
article 352;
(19) “public notification” means a notification in the Gazette of India, or, as the case
may be, the Official Gazette of a State;
1. Inserted by the Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016, s.14(i) (w.e.f.16.9.2016).
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(20) “railway” does not include—
(a) a tramway wholly within a municipal area, or
(b) any other line of communication wholly situate in one State and declared by
Parliament by law not to be a railway;
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[(22) “Ruler” means the Prince, Chief or other person who, at any time before the
commencement of the Constitution (Twenty-sixth Amendment) Act, 1971, was recognised
by the President as the Ruler of an Indian State or any person who, at any time before such
commencement, was recognised by the President as the successor of such Ruler;]
(23) “Schedule” means a Schedule to this Constitution;
(24) “Scheduled Castes” means such castes, races or tribes or parts of or groups within
such castes, races or tribes as are deemed under article 341 to be Scheduled Castes for the
purposes of this Constitution;
(25) “Scheduled Tribes” means such tribes or tribal communities or parts of or groups
within such tribes or tribal communities as are deemed under article 342 to be Scheduled
Tribes for the purposes of this Constitution;
(26) “securities” includes stock;
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[(26A) “Services” means anything other than goods;
(26B) “State” with reference to articles 246A, 268, 269, 269A and article 279A
includes a Union territory with Legislature;]
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[(26C) “socially and educationally backward classes” means such backward classes as
are so deemed under article 342A for the purposes of the Central Government or the State or
Union territory, as the case may be.]
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