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by the President to be the corresponding Province or, as the case may be, the corresponding State for the particular purpose in question;

(h) “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;

(i) “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 but does not include any Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom or any Order in Council made under any such Act;

(j) “Federal Court” means the Federal Court constituted under the Government of India Act, 1935;

(k) “goods” includes all materials, commodities, and articles;

(l) “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;

(m) “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;

(n) “public notification” means a notification in the Gazette of India, or, as the case may be, the official Gazette of a State;

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(o) “securities” includes stock;